In this issue - #94 December 21, 2006

Partner James Paterson has been elected Executive Vice President of the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce for 2007.

Partner Paul Mitchell has been elected by the Okanagan members of the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia as a member of the Provincial Board of Governors of the Association.
 

Google has added another piece of search software to its arsenal, with the launch of Google Patent Search.

Everyone at Pushor Mitchell wishes you and your family all the best during this Christmas season.

In a recent edition of his weekly column, “Legal Ease”, which appears nationally in a variety of print and electronic media, Robert Smithson addressed the confidentiality of so-called confidential references offered by former employers.

A new Statistics Canada report underscores the link between stress and depression — a major occupational health issue.

In another weird tale involving Burger King drive-thru, two police officers in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have sued the fast food chain, claiming the hamburgers they were served were laced with marijuana.

The B.C. government has enacted a regulation for the purpose of defining the term, “family members”, for the purposes of s.52.1 of the Employment Standards Act (Compassionate Care Leave).

The Canada Employment Insurance Commission has announced E.I. premium rates for 2007. 

The Centre for the Study of Living Standards has released a report providing a detailed analysis of the characteristics of persons who die on the job, and the reasons they die, in order to help gain a better understanding of developments over time in this key indicator of job quality and labour market well-being.

If it was meant to be a fast food run, it turned out to be by about the slowest means possible.

Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs is either a heartless autocrat or benevolent marriage counselor, depending on who you ask.

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In the October edition of Legal Alert we reported upon progress with the new U.S. rules as part of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (“WHTI”). 

At the BC Liberals 2006 convention in Penticton (Nov. 2 – 4), the party members passed a resolution in support of eliminating the provincial tax on legal fees

Economy cars made by Hyundai Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. received low marks in new side-impact crash tests, the insurance industry said, showing the downsides of driving small.
 

Finance Minister Flaherty’s Expert Panel on Financial Security for People with Severe Disabilities gave hundreds of thousands of families and people with disabilities an early Christmas present on December 12th. 

The United States intelligence agencies are giving their
cold-war-era computer systems a makeover. 

Mastercard is entitled to sponsor the next two World Cups despite a deal Visa signed with FIFA calling for it to receive the rights on Jan. 1, a judge recently ruled.

Ron Goldman's father sues O.J. Simpson, seeking money from collapsed book deal