The government of Manitoba has set new fine limits for individuals and businesses under The Public Health Act as part of its action to reduce spreading of COVID-19 and to “flatten the curve.”
The fines have been set at $486 for individuals and $2,542 for businesses that breach the new emergency measures.
To see the full news release and more details, click here.
New issues of the following journals are now available through WestlawNext Canada and Lexis Advance Quicklaw. For members of the Law Society of Manitoba, if you would like to read any of these articles, or if you are interested in any other publications we offer, please contact us for assistance at library@lawsociety.mb.ca.
From WestlawNext Canada:
Journal of Environmental Law and Practice, Vol. 33
Bill 4 and the Removal of Cap and Trade: A Case Study of Carbon Pricing, Climate Change Law and Public Participation in Ontario, Canada
Heidegger on Technology: Towards a Less-Anthropocentric, Multi-Disciplinary Legal Definition of “Sustainable”?
An Initial Evaluation of Canada’s New Sustainability-Based Impact Assessment Act
University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 70
Irit Samet, Equity: Conscience Goes to Market
The Patriation of Canadian Corporate Law
Institutions Protecting Constitutional Democracy: Some Conceptual and Methodological Preliminaries
Criminal Law in an Age of Mass Incarceration
Criminalization, Legal Moralism, and Abolition
Marriage, Work, and the Invention of Family Law in English Legal Thought
McGill Journal of Law and Health, Vol. 13
Physician Dismissal of Vaccine Refusers: A Legal and Ethical Analysis
Surgical Informed Consent and Recognizing a Perioperative Duty to Disclose in Transgender Health Care
Could Open Be the Yellow Brick Road to Innovation in Genomics in North America?
Le Parcours Judiciaire Des Victimes D’Insalubrité (Le Cas De La Moisissure)
University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review, Vol. 78
The Circumstances of Change: Understanding the Bedford/Carter Exceptions to Vertical Stare Decisis
Rumours of Corruption: Referrals from the World Bank Sanctions System to National Law Enforcement Authorities
Fixing the Odds: Designing Intelligent Loot Box Policy in the Canadian Context
National Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 40
Telling Stories: The Crown, Parliament and Canada
Flexible and Cooperative Federalism: Distinguishing the Two Approaches in the Interpretation and Application of the Division of Powers
R. v. Comeau: Expert Evidence at Trial
Ontario’s Human Rights Tribunal Bungles the School Boards’ Human Rights Duty to Accommodate Students with Disabilities–J.F. v. Waterloo Catholic District School Board—An Erroneous Rejection of a Student’s Request to Bring His Autism Service Dog to School
Canadian Criminal Law Review, Vol. 25
The Shifting Focus of Canadian Impaired Driving Enforcement: The Increased Role of Provincialand Territorial Administrative Sanctions
At the Mercy of the Court: Canadian Sentencing Principles and the Concept of Mercy
Objective Fault, Strict Liability, and Javanmardi
R. c. Javanmardi ou la Simplicité Trompeuse
From Lexis Advance QuickLaw
Canadian Bar Review, Vol. 97 (also available on CanLII)
Shopkeeper’s Privilege: Coming to a Store Near You?, (2019) 97 Can Bar Rev 559 – 589
Predictive Coding: Adopting and Adapting Artificial Intelligence in Civil Litigation, (2019) 97 Can Bar Rev 486 – 525
A Trojan Horse: Can Indian Self-Government be Promoted Through the Indian Act?, (2019) 97 Can Bar Rev 697 – 720
Reconciliation and Ethical Lawyering: Some Thoughts on Cultural Competence, (2019) 97 Can Bar Rev 527 – 557
For all up-to-date practice directions and notices for all three courts, visit the Manitoba Courts webpage on COVID-19 at http://www.manitobacourts.mb.ca/covid-19/.
WestlawNext Canada has added a section on COVID-19 materials in their finding tools to help find legislation and cases affected by the pandemic.
For those with access to Westlaw, you can find it at the bottom of the finding tools on the front page. These materials include legislation, cases, and bill progress.
Our subscription to HeinOnline just got even better. Eleven new journals have been added to their collection, including Canadian Tax Journal, published by the Canadian Tax Foundation. HeinOnline is available to members of the Law Society of Manitoba by signing in to the Members Portal and clicking on “Library Resources”.
As we continue to work remotely, being able to access a full library of legal journals wherever you have an internet connection is a valuable resource. Be sure to check out all of the content we provide for you, and don’t hesitate to contact us for help with legal research.
The Manitoba Law Library would like to acknowledge with gratitude that we are situated on Treaty One Territory, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Cree and Dakota peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation.
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The library will be remote-access only the morning of Thursday, June 5th 2025. Regular library service and access will resume in the afternoon at 1 p.m.
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