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Preservation order granted for real property alleged to be an instrument of unlawful drug activity.
The Attorney General of Ontario brought a motion for an order to preserve real property under the Civil Remedies Act, 2001, pending a forfeiture application.
The property was alleged to be an instrument of unlawful activity, specifically a location for illegal drug sales.
The self-represented respondent sought multiple adjournments but failed to file responding materials.
The court found reasonable grounds to believe the property was an instrument of unlawful activity based on police evidence of drug trafficking and granted the preservation order.
College's appeal dismissed; students are consumers under the CPA and course calendar misrepresentations constitute unfair practices.
The appellant college appealed a trial judgment finding it negligently misrepresented the benefits of its graduate international business management program in its course calendar, breaching the Consumer Protection Act (CPA).
The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, upholding the trial judge's findings that a special relationship existed giving rise to a duty of care, that students are 'consumers' under the CPA, and that proof of individual reliance is not required to establish an unfair practice under the CPA.
Board sets hearing dates and protocol for written statements on pension issue.
The Ontario Labour Relations Board issued a procedural decision setting hearing dates and establishing a protocol for the delivery of written statements and documents regarding a pension issue.
The parties were directed to file statements of facts and lists of documents, with a process for objections and the preparation of a joint document book.
BACU found to be an independent trade union but not the successor to the OPC.
The Board determined the status of the Brick and Allied Craft Union of Canada (BACU) following a dispute with the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (IUBAC).
The IUBAC had purported to revoke the charters of the Ontario Provincial Council (OPC) and several locals.
The BACU claimed it was the transformed OPC or its successor.
The Board found that the BACU could not be the successor to the OPC because the revocation of charters was deemed ineffective under section 147(5) of the Labour Relations Act once a complaint was filed.
Furthermore, the BACU did not meet the statutory definition of an Employee Bargaining Agency.
However, the Board concluded that the BACU and its locals (except Locals 6, 7, and 25) had taken the necessary steps to constitute themselves as independent trade unions within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Act.
Work assignment of concrete forming to Labourers confirmed over Carpenters' jurisdictional claim.
The applicant Carpenters' union filed a jurisdictional dispute concerning the assignment of the carpentry portion of concrete forming work on a water pollution control centre project.
The work had been assigned by the subcontractor to members of the Labourers' union.
The Carpenters argued this violated a prior 'Peace Treaty' and section 162 of the Labour Relations Act.
The Board found that the Labourers' Provincial ICI agreement validly covered construction labourers performing carpentry work, and that the employer's practice and collective agreement obligations strongly favoured the assignment to the Labourers.
The Board confirmed the employer's work assignment.
Preliminary objection dismissed; Board has jurisdiction to hear grievance regarding allegedly flawed job competition.
The grievor, a Senior Policy Advisor, filed a grievance alleging that a job competition was awarded without due consideration of merit and was influenced by discrimination.
The employer raised a preliminary objection, arguing that the grievance should be dismissed because the Board lacked jurisdiction to grant the requested remedies, asserting that the only available remedy would be a re-run of the competition.
The Board dismissed the preliminary objection, finding that it has jurisdiction to hear complaints related to position competitions under the Public Service Act, although it noted that the usual remedy for a flawed competition is indeed a remission back to the employer to re-run the competition.
Board declined to hear bad faith bargaining complaint where union signed collective agreement after full disclosure.
The complainant union alleged that the respondent employer bargained in bad faith by failing to disclose its plans to change the role of a home for the aged and construct a new facility.
However, the union learned of these plans months before it signed a memorandum of settlement and a collective agreement.
The employer requested that the bad faith bargaining complaint be struck out.
The Ontario Labour Relations Board declined to hear the complaint, finding that because the union had ample notice of the true state of affairs before concluding the collective agreement, it was not deprived of the opportunity to respond in bargaining.
As the complaint did not disclose a breach of the Act on its face, it was dismissed.
