Yesterday I had the honour to be invited to serve as a mentor for the inaugural mentorship program at the Taiwan Young Professional and Entrepreneur Association (T.Y.P.E.A.).
Two V.I.P. guest speakers, the head of the Taiwan Economic and Culture Office (the official representative of Taiwan in Canada, T.E.C.O.), Mr. K.R. Wang, as well as the president [...]

I am pleased to announce that new contents on support payment tax consequences and foreign divorces have been added under the Family Law section of the website.
Click on the links below to visit the pages.
Support Payments and the Tax Consequences
Remarriage & Foreign Divorce in Ontario

When are support payments tax-deductible? It turns out the rules are quite complicated.
Prior to 1997 spousal and child support were generally deductible in computing the payer’s income for the year, and so they were included in computing the income of the recipient spouse. This is called the “deduction-inclusion” system.
In 1997 the federal government introduced a [...]

In common law countries, the constitutional tradition dictates that all disputes must be heard before an impartial third party, free of bias.
Legally speaking, what constitutes “bias”?
In R. v. S.(R.D.), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 484, the Supreme Court of Canada indicated whether any particular set of circumstances will disqualify the decision-maker on the ground of reasonable apprehension [...]

In my previous blog “Ontario’s Enhanced Anti-Cruelty Law” (posted January 18, 2009), I mentioned several new prohibitions under the new law, including causing animals distress and owning an animal fighting structure or equipment. Today I’d like to talk about liabilities specific to dog owners.
Under the Dog Owners Liability Act, R.S.O. 1990 c. D16, dog owners [...]