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A perfect day for Golf 4 CHEO

This past Saturday, John, Randy, Meghan and Helen took advantage of the beautiful sunshine by participating in ATU 279’s annual Golf 4 CHEO fundraising event.  Thank goodness for Best Ball ...

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We’re hiring!

Full time Temporary Legal Assistant Our union-side labour law firm in Westboro is seeking a full time legal assistant to temporarily fill in during a medical absence. The position will be for a ...

A perfect day to Golf 4 CHEO

This past Saturday John, Randy, Meghan and Helen took advantage of the beautiful sunshine and proudly supported ATU 279‘s annual Golf 4 CHEO fundraising event.  Thank goodness for Best ...

Randy Slepchik on CBC Morning Live

Randy Slepchik had the chance to speak with CBC Morning Live about the importance of collaboration in the disability accommodation process and how disability accommodation is part of creating a ...

Ontario’s Court of Appeal affirms there’s a qualitative component to reasonable notice of termination

In Wood v. CTS of Canada Co., 2018 ONCA 758, the Ontario Court of Appeal (“ONCA”) upheld the Superior Court of Justice’s finding of a “qualitative” component to reasonable notice of termination. ...

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 773 v. Lawrence, 2018 SCC 11 (Case Summary)

By: Elsa Ascencio, articling student. Recently, the Supreme Court of Canada weighed in on how a trade union can be sued and determined that trade unions can properly be sued by way of ...

Racialized women lawyers speak up

On March 5th, 2018, Associate Alycia Shaw and our articling student, Elsa Ascencio, were invited to speak at an event hosted by the Women’s Legal Mentorship Program at the University of Ottawa. ...

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JM&A information session at the Ottawa Hospital

Jewitt McLuckie started the year by visiting with medical students at Ottawa Hospital’s general campus. On January 3, 2018, Randy and Alycia met with physical medicine and rehabilitation ...

Elsa Ascencio advocates for immigrant justice

Our articling student, Elsa Ascencio, was recently interviewed by New York Magazine about the Trump’s Administration’s decision to deport 200,000 Salvadorans from the United States. Nearly ...