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Sopinka was involved with several high profile cases including acting on behalf of Susan Nelles when she sued the government of Ontario and the Toronto police for malicious prosecution after the withdrawal of charges against her for murdering babies at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
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John Sopinka, QC ( March 19, 1933-November 24, 1997 ) was a Canadian lawyer and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada, the first Ukrainian-Canadian appointed to the high court.
Sopinka was born in Broderick, Saskatchewan and lived there until his family moved to Hamilton, Ontario.
Also in 1999, the Sopinka Cup was established.
In 2000, the volume Ruled by Law: Essays in Memory of Mr. Justice John Sopinka was published as a special edition of the Supreme Court Law Review ( volume 12, second series ).
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Sopinka, concurring only in result, registers his disagreement with the plurality's reasoning that Section 2 of the Old Age Security Act is not discriminatory, and endorses the Section 15 analysis performed by Cory.
Regarding the Section 1 analysis, L ' Heureux-Dubé registers her agreement with the analysis of Iacobucci and characterizes the " incremental " approach, suggested by Sopinka, as undermining the values that Section 1 sought to protect.
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** John Sopinka, lawyer and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada ( born 1933 )
* March 19-John Sopinka, lawyer and puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada ( d. 1997 )
Many of the contributors were former law clerks of John Sopinka who had gone on to become law professors.
As Sopinka J. noted in Renaud, supra, at pp. 992-96, the task of determining how to accommodate individual differences may also place burdens on the employee and, if there is a collective agreement, a union.
Antonio Lamer, John Sopinka, and Peter Cory dissented on both questions.
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John Sopinka represented Stevens, while Ian Binnie represented Canada.
However, Sopinka argues that the Canadian Government must be afforded some " flexibility in extending social benefits.
Sopinka cites McKinney v. University of Guelph in defence of his reasoning, noting that there are situations in which Legislatures may take an " incremental " approach to address novel issues.
The remaining four Justices dissented, all rejecting the " irrelevance " approach as articulated by La Forest and the " incremental " doctrine suggested by Sopinka.
In addition, he argues that the " incremental " approach, offered by Sopinka, introduces " two unprecedented and potentially undefinable criteria into s. 1 analysis.
In addition, the Court held that Vriend served as the deathblow to the " incremental " approach suggested by Sopinka.
Sopinka died in 1997 of a blood disease.
The John Sopinka Courthouse has 18 courtrooms, accommodating Hamilton's civil, criminal, and small claims courts.
Sopinka J. in Central Okanagan School District No. 23 v. Renaud 2 S. C. R.
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For everyone involved knew that the whole valley was a powder keg, and Mitchell Barton the fuse which could send it into explosive violence.
Curt was too involved in his own problems to pay much attention.
Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
One beatnik got the woman he was living with so involved in drugs and self-analysis and all-night sessions of sex that she was beginning to crack up.
Our first impression of the data was that the students were surprisingly orthodox and religiously involved.
The problem involved military necessity as much as morality, for in pre-penicillin days venereal disease was a crippling disability.
Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``
He was to get involved in no arguments ; ;
While the method of interviewing a small number of companies was appealing because of the opportunity it might have furnished to probe fully the reasons and circumstances of a company's practices and opinions, it also involved the risk of paying undue attention to the unique and peculiar problems of just a few individual companies.
In the only sense in which badness is involved at all, whatever was bad in the first case is still present in its entirety, since all that is expressed in either case is a state of feeling, and that feeling is still there.
A number of people became involved in the preparation but work was slow until 1937.
He could tell them his fears of being involved, he could explain what had happened in the old neighborhood and how Mae had misunderstood and how she had held it over him -- the scene was complete in his mind at the moment, even to his own jerkings and snivelings, and Ferguson's silent patience.
If Arthur Williams was involved in the fraud or the murder, then he too had another identity.
Though President John F. Kennedy was primarily concerned with the crucial problems of Berlin and disarmament adviser McCloy's unexpected report from Khrushchev, his new enthusiasm and reliance on personal diplomacy involved him in other key problems of U.S. foreign policy last week.
and whenever the Lo Shu involved directional symbolism, it was oriented in this same fashion.
At present the doctor's main concern was in seeing to it that Japanese salvage firms were not permitted to operate on the hulks of warships sunk too close inshore, because the work involved setting off nerve-shattering blasts at all hours.
Something in the back of his mind was aware that the magnificence of the plan lay in his faith, that the idea would work because he believed in it, since his courage and virility were involved, because it was truly his.
Although they " were expecting to see activity in the brain's reward centers ", based on the idea that " people perform altruistic acts because they feel good about it ", what they found was that " another part of the brain was also involved, and it was quite sensitive to the difference between doing something for personal gain and doing it for someone else's gain ".
In 1908 he was involved in trying to start a new professional baseball league, the " Union Professional League " which took the field in April but folded one month later.
He was pressed into the Royal Navy, and after leaving the service became involved in the Atlantic slave trade.
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Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.
Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.
Gavin's face was bloodless with excitement.
Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.
His mouth was open, his neck corded with the strain of his screams.
Out in front of our walls the grass was covered with dead and dying men, war shields, lances, blankets and wounded and dead horses.
The morning air was filled with the sweetish odor of new-spilled blood, the acrid stench of frightened horses, and the bitterness of burned powder.
Above me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt in an attempt to hurdle the bales.
He was shaking with anger, his breath coming in long, painful gasps.
The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;
It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.
The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.
The ground was covered with soft pine needles and the slope was gentle.
Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??
She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.
Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.
Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.
He was handsome, with his coal-black hair and eyes, his fine-chiseled features.
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