Imagine criticizing a development or asking for changes to a law and getting sued by a large corporation with high priced lawyers and deep pockets. Even if you did absolutely nothing wrong, fighting the lawsuit could bankrupt you. Sound intimidating? That’s the point of lawsuits intended to silence public debate – known by the acronym SLAPPs,
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Last week (April 20th), the federal government (as represented by Todd Gerhart of the Department of Justice - DOJ) announced that it would lay charges against the fish farm company, Marine Harvest, as a result of a private prosecution laid against the company by Alexandra Morton. I’m not going to review the facts of the case, which have been se
Alexandra Morton’s constitutional challenge to BC’s fish farm laws just keeps getting better. Justice Hinkson today has effectively created a moratorium on new fish farms and fish farm expansion in BC for
A Residential Tenancy Branch decision, released on December 28th, 2009, has ordered a New Westminster landlord to pay $11,950 to the residents of two apartments for illegally spraying pesticides in their apartment building.
Well everyone else had one, and we just felt left out…