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Category: Blog

Category: Blog

Uber and the Sharing Model – A Follow-up
Following up from our previous blog post on controversial ride-sharing company Uber, we thought we would share an article

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Dude, Where’s My Pension? A Crisis In The Making
In a recent Globe and Mail article, it was noted that fewer than 20% of middle-income families have saved

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Inventors in the Public Service: What are your Obligations?
In Canada, inventors who are working as public servants have unique obligations when filing their patent applications. According to

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CIPO Twitter chat – Learn how to protect your unique product design
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office had a Twitter chat on February 25th, where we learned about how industrial designs

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Privacy on workplace devices – more secure than you think?
In this world of constant online connection, it is typical for employees to communicate with their spouses during work

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Indigenous Resources Part 1: the Odawa Native Friendship Centre
The Odawa Native Friendship Centre is a non-profit organization providing services to the Aboriginal community in the Ottawa-Carleton Region

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‘To Forget One’s Purpose Is The Commonest Form Of Stupidity’ – Frederick Nietzsche
Long ago, the courts held that it would be wrong to order 'the specific performance' of an individual employment

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Happy Birthday to us all?
The world of arts & entertainment and intellectual property law collided on February 8th in a manner that should

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Court of Appeal affirms 26-month notice period for dependent contractor
In a marked departure from recent entries in The Workplace Matters, this blog entry is not about social media.

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Pay Equity Maintenance: Wake that Sleeping Dog
People who worked in labour relations in the late 1980s and early 1990s will remember a frenzied period of

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