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November 6, 2012
Noteworthy cases

Noteworthy Cases – Mould v. JACE Holdings Ltd. (Thrifty Foods) (No. 2), 2012 BCHRT 77

In March 2012, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal decided that the employer had breached the B.C. Human Rights Code when it terminated a disabled employee who had been absent from work for 30 months. Ms. Mould began working at Thrifty in 1996 and worked her way up to assistant manager. In December 2007, she went […]

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Noteworthy Cases – Pridgen v. University of Calgary, 2012 ABCA 139

In May 2012, the Alberta Court of Appeal found that the University of Calgary was unreasonable in its severe punishment of two of its undergrad students who criticized one of their professors on Facebook. Two brothers, the Pridgens, were undergrad students at the University of Calgary. They, among several classmates, were unhappy with one of […]

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