October 2012 Stay Up To Date with Education Law Canada’s Top Court Rules that Specific Performance Not Required For All Land Deals and Duty to Mitigate Applies Canada’s Top Court Rules Teacher’s Privacy Interest in Laptop Diminished Due to School Board Ownership of Computer and Workplace Policies Regarding Computer UseMore from this issue
September 2012 Staff Advice and Recommendations Not Publicly Accessible Upon Request Stay Up To Date with Education Law Teacher Freedom of ExpressionMore from this issue
June 2012 ‘Responsive Records’ Under FIPPA Can Include Deleted Emails Gender Identity & Expression Added to Code School Investigation Has Negative Impact on College DecisionMore from this issue
May 2012 EAs Accompanying Students on Overnight Excursion is Not ‘Volunteering’ Update Regarding the Accepting Schools ActMore from this issue
April 2012 The Municipal Conflict of Interest Act and Light Rail Transit in the Waterloo Region Bill 39, Concussions – Is it Everything It’s Cracked Up to Be? MFIPPA Duty to Disclose: “Some Form of Connection” to Employment is Sufficient for ExemptionMore from this issue
March 2012 Claim Against Board and Teacher for Student Suicide May Proceed Board Does Not Have to Compensate Teachers for Work that is not Performed DECEs are Instructional Support StaffMore from this issue
February 2012 OLRB Will Not Take Jurisdiction of Harassment Cases Student Codes of Conduct Not Subject to Arbitration in B.C. Supreme Court of Canada Upholds Ethics & Religious Culture ProgramMore from this issue
January 2012 Bill 168 Changes the Assessment of Workplace Violence New Tort of Invasion of Privacy Limits to Supervision Time is a “Hard” 80 Minute Cap, for all TeachersMore from this issue
November 2011 Student Witnesses Might be Necessary to Prove Case When is a Record Collected and Used? Case Note: Privacy Complaint No. MC08-91 and MC08-92, City of Vaughn Board Ordered to Pay a Proportional Share of Teacher’s Hearing AidMore from this issue
October 2011 Different Criteria for Retired Teachers Not Discrimination HRTO Expanding Scope in Education Applications? Giftedness Considered by HRTO for AccommodationMore from this issue