Marcus McCann made arguments at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in a Charter challenge seeking to strike Canada’s Criminal Code prohibitions related to sex work October 3-7, 2022. The challenge was launched by the Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform, five current or former sex workers, and a former escort agency owner. Mr. […]
Read MoreOnce-in-a-generation consultations underway in Ontario could lead to sweeping changes in the way the province regulates work. Earlier this year, Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals appointed two labour experts — former Ontario Superior Court judge John C. Murray and labour lawyer Michael Mitchell — to make recommendations about how to protect vulnerable workers in the twenty-first century. […]
Beth Symes, Carol Street, and Ben Millard are pleased to announce that Marcus McCann has joined Millard & Company as associate counsel. Marcus joins a firm with a long history. Millard & Company provides expert legal advice and advocacy in all areas of civil litigation, with a particular focus on labour law, employment law, human rights, […]
On February 27, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in Saskatchewan (Human Rights Commission) v. Whatcott, a landmark case on hate speech laws in Canada. Millard & Company were counsel for the United Church of Canada, which intervened in the case. Ben Millard appeared and made oral submissions to the SCC at […]
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 […]
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 […]
Beth Symes is one of the founders of the Feminist History Society. The goal of the FHS is to publish books about the women’s movement in Canada between 1960 and 2010, which reflect the diversity and dynamism, strength and spirit of the movement. This year, the FHS is pleased to present its third book: a […]