Section 7 Charter Rights and Bike Lanes – Ongoing Developments from Ontario
2025-06-10Legal Updates
***Please note that this Ontario Superior Court decision was overturned by the Ontario Court of Appeal in August 2026, which we have written about here.*** On April 22, 2025, Justice Schabas of the Ontario Superior Court granted an interim injunction restraining section 195.6 of the Ontario Provincial Government’s recently amended Highway Traffic Act, SRO 1990 […]
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Is a Guinea Fowl a Fowl: an Offender’s Intention and the Interpretation of Bylaws
2024-09-03Legal Updates
On June 17, 2024, in the judgment of R v Reid, 2024 BCSC 1044, Madam Justice Sharma of the British Columbia Supreme Court released her decision on what, at first blush, appears to be an undeniably odd question under appeal: is a guinea fowl a “fowl” for the purposes of Vancouver’s Animal Control Bylaw 9150 […]
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