D. Jared Brown
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D. Jared Brown
@LitigationGuy
Litigation counsel in Toronto. Advisory, Governance. Contributor Canadian Lawyer, Lawyers Daily/Law360, Law Times.

The number of Canadians who believe the country is heading in the right direction has hit its highest percentage since 2017, according to a new poll from Abacus Data. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/05/24/hig…



#BREAKING: The Ontario Liberal Party has dismissed Nate Erskine-Smith's appeal of the Scarborough Southwest nomination, finding "no irregularities" and determining that Ahsanul Hafiz was the true winner of the vote. #onpoli

BIG news out of Kitchener-Waterloo: the Ontario Superior Court has ruled that homelessness is an analogous ground for discrimination under s.15 of the Charter. This is a BIG step toward recognizing homeless people as an equity-seeking group under the law. Governments take note!



Supreme Court Canada created a new tort of intimate partner violence that will allow people to sue for damages when they have been subject to abuse in a relationship. #scc #familylaw #justice cbc.ca/news/politics/…

NOW - The Black Rod,the King's messenger - knocks on the door of House of Commons, the door is slammed in his face, to represent that the House of Commons is independent of the monarchy, after knocking again 3 times, he enters and calls MP's to come to the King's speech.

Nate Erskine-Smith: "Why would dozens and dozens and dozens of people who are temporary residents showing up not understanding the process, when they're asked for their address, they're not certain about what their address is, and then they're taking pictures of their ballot."

We're asking notable Torontonians what they'd do as mayor. Blue Jay Davis Schneider wouldn't change much. But if he had to? "The one thing would probably be the taxes. It’s a lot of taxes." What would you do? Tell us: ifiweremayor@thestar.ca Read more: trib.al/plFt2Xc


In a letter sent to parents today, Campbell Collegiate pulled students out of a Globe Theatre student matinee after it “Reached levels of maturity beyond expectations.” A student tells us the play included a drag queen who was “putting their boobs in kids faces and students were crying.”

Akin's one minute long question " And just yesterday, a senior aide to former Prime Minister Harper Howard Anglin, also former chief of staff to Jason Kenney, tweeted out, anybody but Arbour." "...And I wondered how you might bridge or seek to make bridges with Conservatives who might not be so happy with your appointment." Arbour "I will reach out to anybody who wishes to engage with me, to debate, to discuss." "I will listen, and I hope in due course that I will manage to persuade those, particularly those who may doubt my integrity, that I'm not sure I could do much more to try to persuade them otherwise on the basis of what I've done before." "But going forward, yeah, I will engage" @ottawaspends

There is considerable hand wringing in Canadian establishment circles about the loss of faith in institutions. This is usually attributed to some vague mythical populist campaign against these institutions. The truth is that the institutions are doing it to themselves.

Chief Justice Richard Wagner dismisses request to recuse from Emergencies Act appeal nationalpost.com/news/politics/…

A leaked 2004 Home Office memo to the Telegraph shows Tony Blair’s team admitting mass migration was a growing concern for people, so they hatched a secret plan to make it more “popular.” Blair’s team pushed a different PR approach, to reframe dissent as racism… in order to smother debate and complaints. They knew, they did it anyway… even when you voted against it repeatedly🔥

More than one in 10 Canadians living below the poverty line: Statistics Canada ctvnews.ca/canada/article…





