House of Bills: An Update of Ontario Bills

After their winter break, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario is officially back in session as of February 16, 2021. We thought we would provide a recap of the bills that passed through the Legislature in their first week back (Feb 16-18).

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Lights, Camera, Action!: Osgoode Hall on the Big Screen

If you have been spending a lot of time watching movies and TV these days, you might have noticed a familiar building in the background of some late 90s and early 2000s movies and TV shows. While filming at Osgoode does not happen anymore, back in the day large film productions took over the grounds, halls, and even the library during evenings and weekends.

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Early 20th Century Ontario Law Reporting: A Brief Look Back

While full-text judgments are available today in multiple digital and print sources, this was certainly not the case in the early days of Ontario legal publishing. The number of regularly published law reports was small, and the cases they included were selective and primarily from the appellate courts.  

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