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New Brunswick Business Immigration Stream

The New Brunswick Business Immigration stream is an economic immigration pathway for experienced entrepreneurs who are ready to establish, operate and actively manage a business while living and settling in New Brunswick permanently.   Applicants under this stream must meet the minimum eligibility requirements for age, language, education, personal net worth, business ownership and/or senior… Continue reading New Brunswick Business Immigration Stream

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Ontario Entrepreneur Stream at a glance

The Entrepreneur Stream is an immigration stream under the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP). It is established under the Ontario Immigration Act, 2015 and its regulations. For your application to be approved you must follow the process and meet the criteria established under the regulations. This is only a summary; if there are any discrepancies… Continue reading Ontario Entrepreneur Stream at a glance

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Manitoba Entrepreneur Pathway

The Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program (MPNP) has launched an interim process for applying to the Business Investor Stream Entrepreneur Pathway. This process will be in place until technical changes to the MPNP Online system are complete .   The MPNP Business Investor stream requires updates to the MPNP Online application system. While the system is… Continue reading Manitoba Entrepreneur Pathway

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RJR – MacDonald Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General), [1994] 1 S.C.R. 311

Practice – Interlocutory motions to stay implementation of regulations pending final decision on appeals and to delay implementation if appeals dismissed – Leave to appeal granted shortly after applications to stay heard – Whether the applications for relief from compliance with regulations should be granted – Tobacco Products Control Act, S.C. 1988, c. 20, ss.… Continue reading RJR – MacDonald Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General), [1994] 1 S.C.R. 311

Hunt v. Carey Canada Inc., [1990] 2 S.C.R. 959

Practice Motion to strike Action brought by person suffering from disease allegedly caused by exposure to asbestos fibres Allegation of conspiracy to withhold information of potential health risks Allegations of other nominate torts Circumstances in which a statement of claim (or portions of it) could be struck out Whether allegations based on the tort of… Continue reading Hunt v. Carey Canada Inc., [1990] 2 S.C.R. 959

R. v. Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd., 2011 SCC 42, [2011] 3 S.C.R. 45

Civil procedure — Third party claims — Motion to strike — Tobacco manufacturers being sued by provincial government to recover health care costs of tobacco related illnesses, and by consumers of “light” or “mild” cigarettes for damages and punitive damages — Tobacco companies issuing third party notices to federal government claiming contribution and indemnity —… Continue reading R. v. Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd., 2011 SCC 42, [2011] 3 S.C.R. 45

DUCA Financial Services Credit Union Ltd. v. Bozzo, 2010 ONSC 4601 (CanLII)

[1] In my Reasons for Decision dated May 27, 2010 in DUCA Financial Services Credit Union Ltd. v. Bozzo, 2010 ONSC 3104, I dismissed the claim of the plaintiff (“Duca”) that a January 29, 1988 trust declaration executed by the defendant Albert Bozzo was a sham and void or alternatively, was void because of the… Continue reading DUCA Financial Services Credit Union Ltd. v. Bozzo, 2010 ONSC 4601 (CanLII)

Marinangeli v. Marinangeli, 2003 CanLII 27673 (ON CA)

Family law — Support — Child support — Variation — Minutes of settlement executed in late 1996 providing for variation of child support in event of material change in circumstances — Father stating in contemporaneous sworn financial statement that he did not anticipate any material changes to information contained in statement — Father cashing in… Continue reading Marinangeli v. Marinangeli, 2003 CanLII 27673 (ON CA)

Rick v. Brandsema, 2009 SCC 10, [2009] 1 S.C.R. 295

Family law — Family assets — Separation agreements — Unconscionability — Husband knowingly exploiting wife’s mental fragility and giving misleading financial information, resulting in negotiated equalization payment that fails to reflect objectives of governing legislation or parties’ intention to divide assets equally — Whether separation agreement unconscionable — Role of professional assistance in compensating for… Continue reading Rick v. Brandsema, 2009 SCC 10, [2009] 1 S.C.R. 295

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