ANGEL RONAN SLRP with the Toshokan ™ Law Centre: Litigation, Consulting and Management.

 

 

 

For now, just call it the festival formerly known as Caribana. Toronto’s massive mid-summer Caribbean celebration is being renamed. Last Thursday, the Ontario Superior Court ruled that it can no longer use the name Caribana because it is trademarked by a group that founded the festival, but no longer runs it. “There is no change to the festival,” said Chris Alexander, chief administrative officer of the Festival Management Committee, which has run Caribana for the past five years. “The only thing that has changed is the name. “And people will still call it that.” But behind the Caribana name change, there’s an ongoing struggle for control over the massively popular celebration. In 2006, the city and province cut funding to Caribana after organizers failed to produce adequate financial statements. Control was transferred from the Caribbean Cultural Committee (CCC), which started the festival in 1967, to the newly created Festival Management Committee (FMC...

 

 

    19/01/2024. The proposals from the Law Society of Canada to the Law Society of Ontario.     We say the lawyer is white..... sometimes.  Racialism and racialised treatment of individuals in the profession has been frowned upon, identified as endemic and systemic at the former Law Society of Upper Can.   and now how do we compensate the victims of this human rights issue?  We propose a reinstatement of all licenses affected in this toxic, harassing environment.  We propose compensation of $70,000.00 to all individuals who were licensees under that disbanded, corrupt racially ignorant, partial regime.   We should look at this and see what this racialism entailed.  It involved  legal consequences for the Tort of the Loss of Reputation, emotional distress, admission of charter breaches contrary S.15 of the Charter.   We can disband the Law Society and change it's name but it's obvious that many, all of us are...