In this issue - #83 February 28, 2006

NEW - CIPO News Updates: February 1, 2006.

Investor Ready 101

Ottawa law firm lang Michiner has prepared a special Year-In-Review of everything that the Supreme Court of Canada has done in 2005, which includes:

In a recent version of its monthly electronic bulletin, HRinfodesk.com reports that HRSDC has launched its Summer Work Experience (Summer Career Placement Program) for 2006.  With the help of employers from all sectors of the economy, the Summer Work Experience program aims to help Canadian students find summer jobs so they can acquire the skills, knowledge and work experience they need to prepare for and participate in the labour market.

A recent Ontario case considered the case of an employee charged with possession of child pornography at his home. 

It is an annual tradition at Pushor Mitchell that our Labour & Employment Law Group organizes teams to participate in “Bowl for Kids Sake” on behalf of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Okanagan.

In a recent version of its electronic newsletter, “News Flash”, BDO Dunwoody LLP offered advice on improving employee attendance during peak production periods.
 

Why do some people seem to reach the top of the corporate ladder easily, while others remain stuck on the middle-management rung?

Employees in various professions sometimes come across strange items in the course of their job duties.

A Vancouver grocery store owner engaged in a battle with striking workers is utilizing replacement workers of a different kind.

Nancy Sulz, a member of the R.C.M.P., has been awarded damages of $950,000 in B.C. Supreme Court as a result of harassment she endured in the course of her job.

In a recent edition of his weekly column, “Legal Ease”, which appears in the Kelowna Capital News and on the national H.R. database “HRinfodesk.com” (and in a variety of other print and electronic media), Robert Smithson addressed the issue of employers recovering costs of theft from employees.

Almost a century after Henry Ford raised workers’ wages to encourage them to buy the company’s vehicles, Mazda is heading in the opposite direction.

When Tammy Klein began investigating crime scenes eight years ago, it was virtually unheard of for a killer to use bleach to clean up a bloody mess.
 

Computing Unplugged interviews Wade Callison, in which he
discusses many of the more scary aspects of identity theft
and what you can do to protect yourself.

Although many aspects of financing developments on reserve lands are similar to financing other land developments, such as the business issues of cash flow projections and marketability, additional challenges exist on reserve because of the legal land holdings system

Insolvency in Canada in 2005.

More U.S. troops have died in off-duty motorcycle accidents since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, than have been killed in combat in Afghanistan over that same time, according to safety records.

Who is sending threatening e-mail to a teenager

The Canadian telecommunications regulator has announced
plans for a public consultation on implementing a
do-not-call list.

Entrepreneur magazine ranks the top 101 homebased franchises.

In a rare move against a widely used industrial compound, the  US  Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it is asking U.S. companies to virtually eliminate public exposure to a toxic chemical used to make Teflon and thousands of other products. Although the effort is voluntary, the federal government has rarely taken such a sweeping, accelerated action against an industrial compound

"The best index to a man's character is: how he treats people who can't do him any good; how he treats people who can't fight back".