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Stereo Decisis
by Stereo Decisis
A topical, entertaining and accessible discussion about the law in Canada and beyond. Join Hilary Young, Oliver Pulleyblank and Robert Danay as they offer their insights into the latest developments in the law.
Episodes
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The New Tort Trend?
On this long overdue episode of the pod, Professor Hilary Young and Robert Danay discuss the apparent new trend in which judges in Canada have been creating new common law torts. Some of the cases discussed include: Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia, 2022 ONSC 1303 in which Mandhane J. created the new tort…
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SHORTS: The Legacy of Joseph Arvay QC (1949-2020)
In this inaugural Stereo Decisis "Shorts" episode, we pay tribute to the legacy of Joseph Arvay, QC, who passed away on December 7, 2020 at the age of 71. Cases of Arvay's mentioned in the episode include: Canada (Attorney General) v. Bedford, 2013 SCC 72 Carter v. Canada (Attorney General), 2015...
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The Legal Ethics of Representing a Hatemonger (with Dean Patricia Hughes)
In this episode of Stereo Decisis, Hilary Young and Robert Danay are joined by the former Dean of the University of Calgary's Faculty of Law, Patricia Hughes. The discussion focuses on the appeal of R. v. Sears, 2019 ONCJ 104 in which James Sears and Leroy St. Germaine were convicted of wilful...
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Joshua Sealy-Harrington on Jury Selection, Diversity and Equality
On this episode of the podcast, Hilary Young and Robert Danay are joined by constitutional litigator and self-styled "Blackademic," Joshua Sealy-Harrington. The discussion primarily centred on the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Chouhan, which was a constitutional…
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Angela Swan on COVID-19 and Force Majeure
On this episode of Stereo Decisis, Oliver Pulleyblank, Hilary Young and Robert Danay are joined by Angela Swan, who was recently described as "nothing short of a venerated celebrity in both Canadian contract law and the Canadian legal community at large." Angela brings her decades of experience…
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Justice Lorne Sossin on Adjudication in the Time of COVID-19
On this episode of Stereo Decisis, Hilary Young, Robert Danay and Oliver Pulleyblank are joined by Justice Lorne Sossin of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to discuss some of the challenges and opportunities that Canadian courts are navigating as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the...
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Nevsun Resources Ltd. and the new Customary International Law Torts (with David Quayat)
On this episode of Stereo Decisis, Robert Danay, Oliver Pulleyblank and Hilary Young are joined by David Quayat to discuss the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Nevsun Resources Ltd. v. Araya, 2020 SCC 5. This case involves three former workers at a mine in Eritrea who launched a...
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Magic Mushroom Edition (with Steven Penney)
On this, our first post-coronavirus pandemic episode, Hilary Young and Robert Danay are joined by Steven Penney, Professor of Law at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law, to discuss R v Brown, 2020 ABQB 166. This was a case that gained national attention, in which a young man with no history…
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Vavilov and the "Culture of Justification" (with Caroline Mandell)
On this episode of Stereo Decisis, Robert Danay and Oliver Pulleyblank are joined by Caroline Mandell, a legal writing coach, litigation consultant and former counsel to the Court of Appeal for Ontario to discuss the Supreme Court's landmark administrative law decision in Canada (Minister of...
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Pictorgrams and Pipelines
On this edition of stereo decisis, Hilary Young, Robert Danay and Oliver Pulleyblank discuss the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Kosoian v. Société de transport de Montréal, 2019 SCC 59, which involved a woman who won a decade long battle for compensation after being wrongfully...
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Crown Copyright is NOT Boring
On this episode of Stereo Decisis, Hilary Young and Robert Danay are joined by Professor Carys Craig (Osgoode Hall Law School) to discuss the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Keatley Surveying Ltd. v. Teranet Inc., 2019 SCC 43. The discussion touches on: Vaver, David. “Copyright...
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Prorogration Fascination
On this long overdue episode of the podcast, Hilary Young, Oliver Pulleyblank and Robert Danay are joined by Professor Paul Daly of the University of Ottawa (and the influential Administrative Law Matters blog) to discuss the recent decision of the UK Supreme Court in Miller, R (on the…
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Death Decisis
On this episode of the podcast, Oliver Pulleyblank, Hilary Young and Robert Danay are joined by guest Jane Thomson to discuss a variety of topics that happen to relate to death. The first flows out of a recent case in which two parents were granted the right by a court to harvest the sperm of…
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Cruel and Unusual Ltd.
On this episode of the podcast, Hilary Young, Oliver Pulleyblank and Robert Danay discuss the recent decision of the Quebec Court of Appeal in 9147-0732 Québec inc v Directeur des poursuites criminelles et pénales, 2019 QCCA 373 in which a majority of the Court found that corporations enjoy...
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The Not About SNC-Lavalin Edition
On this week's episode of the pod, Hilary Young, Robert Danay and Oliver Pulleyblank discuss: The recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in R v. Jarvis, 2019 SCC 10 in which the Court held that a high school English teacher ought to be convicted of voyeurism after he surreptitiously…
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Moral Luck Edition
On this episode of the show Hilary Young, Oliver Pulleyblank and Robert Danay discuss the recent guilty plea to dangerous driving offences by the accused in the tragic Humboldt Broncos bus crash, the decision of the United Nations Human Rights Committee that the Indian Act discriminates against...
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What Could be Moore Sweet?
On this week's episode of Stereo Decisis, the crew discuss the recent decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Vice Media Canada Inc., 2018 SCC 53 and Moore v. Sweet, 2018 SCC 52 as well as the federal government's recent announcement that it will introduce legislation devolving control...
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The Honest But Mistaken Belief Episode
On this week's episode of stereo decisis, the crew discuss the decision of the European Court of Justice that tastes may not be copyrighted, Statistics Canada's controversial attempt at collecting Canadians' banking information and the Supreme Court of Canada's decision absolving Joseph Groia of...
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MAID in Canada
On this week's episode of Stereo Decisis, Hilary Young, Oliver Pulleyblank and Robert Danay discuss some recent developments in the area of medical assistance in dying ("MAID") in Canada. The discussion is sparked by the case of Audrey Parker, who had terminal brain cancer and elected to die...
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The Right not to be Blocked on Twitter?
On this week's episode of the show, Hilary Young and Robert Danay are joined by Professor Emmett MacFarlane to discuss the recent lawsuit by Emilie Taman and others in which they allege that the Mayor of Ottawa, Jim Watson, violated their constitutional free expression rights when he blocked them...
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The Skinny Dipping in a Shark Tank Edition
On this week's episode of Stereo Decisis, Rob Danay and Hilary Young are joined by their old colleague, Professor Howie Kislowicz of the University of Calgary Faculty of Law to discuss the proposal by the premier-designate of Quebec, Francois Legault, to ban the wearing of religious symbols by...
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A Belated Thanksgiving Edition
On this week's episode of Stereo Decisis, Hilary Young, Oliver Pulleyblank and Rob Danay discuss the decision of the federal government not to appeal the Federal Court of Appeal's decision on the TransMountain pipeline and to appoint retired Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci to oversee...
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Stairway to Copyright Infringement
On this week's episode of the pod, Hilary Young, Oliver Pulleyblank and Rob Danay discuss: The decision of the 9th circuit court of appeals in the United States to order a new trial on the question of whether Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" violates copyright; The apparent decision of…
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The "Beverley Bralette" Edition
On this week's episode of the pod, Hilary Young, Robert Danay and Oliver Pulleyblank discuss the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Rogers Communications Inc. v. Voltage Pictures, LLC, 2018 SCC 38, which concerned the ability of a copyright owner to gain easy access to the identities of...
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A Russian Nesting Doll of Constitutional Law Nerdery
On this week's episode of the pod, Rob Danay, Hilary Young and Oliver Pulleyblank discuss the recent saga in Ontario involving legislation reducing the size of Toronto City Council that was struck down as unconstitutional by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice before the Ford government...
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Anti-SLAPP Stick
On this week's episode of the pod, Hilary Young, Oliver Pulleyblank and Robert Danay discuss the recent six decisions of the Ontario Court of Appeal interpreting that province's Anti-SLAPP legislation, the decision of the Indian Supreme Court to strike down s. 377 of the Penal Code, which...
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#FreeTheBeer
On this week's episode, we air a recent interview by Oliver Pulleyblank of Shea Coulson, who represented a group of BC wineries at the Supreme Court of Canada in R v Comeau, 2018 SCC 15, which involved an effort to #FreeTheBeer. As Oliver and Hilary Young were actually traveling at the time of...
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Mike Bullard's Defamation Suit
On this week's episode of Stereo Decisis, Rob Danay, Hilary Young and Oliver Pulleyblank discuss the merits and significance of Mike Bullard's recently filed defamation suit.
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Charities, Muzzles and Megaphones edition
On this week's episode of the pod, Hilary Young and Robert Danay are joined by Kathryn Chan of the University of Victoria Faculty of Law to discuss two recent cases involving the law of charities. The first, Canada Without Poverty v. AG Canada,
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The Buck a Beer edition
On this week's episode Hilary Young is on vacation so Rob Danay and Oliver Pulleyblank are left to discuss Ontario's new "Buck a beer" program. Rob discusses a report by Tim Stockwell and Gerald Thomas called "Is alcohol too cheap in the UK?
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The Province of Toronto edition
On this week's show, Hilary, Oliver and Rob discuss the unusual case in which a man from Alberta legally changed his sex so that he could pay lower car insurance premiums, the proposal by a candidate for the mayor of Toronto that the city should "sece...
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Don't call it "illegal" immigration
On this episode of the pod, Oliver Pulleyblank and Robert Danay are joined by Professor Jamie Lieuw of the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law to discuss the recent controversy over refugee claimants crossing over the Canadian border from the United St...
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Pardon Me
On this week's show Hilary Young, Robert Danay and Oliver Pulleyblank take a deep dive into the wide word of pardons. They discuss the recent request for a pardon by Robert Latimer, the propriety of mass pardons for the simple possession of cannabis and the right to be forgotten. In obiter dicta,...
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Pride and Prejudice
On this week's episode, Robert Danay, Hilary Young and Oliver Pulleyblank discuss two cases involving the apparent clash between freedom of religion and equality rights, particularly for LGBTQ persons. The first case is Law Society of British Columbia v. Trinity Western University, in which the...
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With Great Privilege Comes Great Responsibility
On today's show, our hosts Robert Danay, Hilary Young and Oliver Pulleyblank discuss the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline, the protests it caused, the injunction issued by the British Columbia Supreme Court to stop the protests and the contempt of...
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A topical, entertaining and accessible discussion about the law in Canada and beyond. Join Hilary Young, Oliver Pulleyblank and Robert Danay as they offer their insights into the latest developments in the law.
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