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Using data from the 2016 General Social Survey (GSS) on Canadians at Work and Home, Statistics Canada finds that 19% of women and 13% of men experienced harassment in the workplace in the past year of at least one type (verbal abuse, humiliating behaviour, threats, physical violence, and unwanted sexual attention or sexual harassment), with ...
Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium, a gay and lesbian bookstore in Vancouver, continually had books seized at the border under accusations of obscenity. The bookstore alleged that the customs regulations that allowed so-called obscene materials to be detained violated their rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. [7]
The Criminal Code is a federal statute passed by the Parliament of Canada, which has exclusive constitutional jurisdiction over the criminal law in Canada. [9] There are three separate hatred-related offences: section 318 (advocating genocide ), [ 10 ] section 319(1) (publicly inciting hatred likely to lead to a breach of the peace), [ 11 ] and ...
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Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium is a bookstore in Vancouver, British Columbia, that sells gay and lesbian-related literature. It imports most of its material from the United States, which often caused trouble at the border when material was classified as obscene by Canada Customs and was thus refused entry.
An important aspect of civil liability law in Québec is the individual right to privacy and dignity. In title two of book one, the CCQ provides for a series of rights comparable to but broader than the privacy torts extant in both the common law provinces and in France and other jurisdictions with civil codes based on the Napoleonic Code.
The book documents the Havelock Bank Robbery of the Toronto Dominion Bank in 1961 and the police chase of the robbers. [1] [5] The book describes the two years of planning that went into the robbery, learning the patterns of the staff and the timing of the managers vacation. [6] It details the limited capacity of the local police force. [6]
The city of London, Ontario was home to the first ever bank robbery in Canada where an automobile was used by the robbers to escape from the scene of the crime in December 1920. [8] Another milestone in Canadian history was reached 11 years later, in 1931, when London was home to the first ever bank robbery where a plane was used to evade ...