r/legaladvicecanada

Basically to sum it up, my union was recently on strike. We were forced back to work without an agreement, which sucks, and after a few days of returning to work we noticed a camera hidden on the top shelf in our small “parts warehouse”. We searched the unit up online, and it’s a trail cam capable of recording video and audio without a cellular connection. There are no signs posted saying that we are being recorded. Does my employer have a legal right to secretly record in their office? Located in New Brunswick.

I just bought a newly built townhouse a week ago, and discovered that my car does not fit, nor does it fit any sized vehicle as I’ve also tried both of my parent’s vehicles. Each car sticks outside of the garage by several inches, rendering the garage door unable to close.

To make matters worse, I’m not the only townhouse in the surrounding area that is dealing with this. Everyone who has moved in has to park their cars on both sides of the street as their cars don’t fit in their garages either. The street is so congested with parked vehicles that some entrances to homes are blocked. I also worry emergency vehicles won’t be able to fit.

I have nothing stored in my garage either, so this is strictly due to how the structure was built. The builder has also stopped responding to people’s complaints about the garages, which is aggravating to say the least. The listing and plans I signed off on all state it is a single car garage, but the physical structure is too short to accommodate any sized vehicle.

I need advice on what to do in this situation, given that the garage can’t serve its intended purpose.

I'm a solo developer in Quebec. I sell small data and automation tools on an online marketplace, and I have a website that lists them.

A few days ago I got a cease-and-desist by email from the in-house lawyer of a large US website. It's about one of my tools, which pulled business listings from their service for the person running it. The tool ran inside each user's own account with credentials the user supplied, so the results went straight to them. I never received the data or the credentials. It never had a paying customer.

The letter claims breach of their terms of service, scraping and getting around their access controls, copyright in their compilation of content, and trademark infringement because my website used their name and logo in a way that "suggests affiliation". They ask me to confirm in writing within about two weeks that I've stopped and won't resume, to delete any of their data, and to identify anyone I gave their data to. It ends by saying they reserve their legal rights.

I don't want to fight it. So far I've:

• deleted the tool from the marketplace
• removed every mention of the company and its logo from my website, and added a line saying I'm not affiliated with the companies the site names
• kept my own records, but I hold none of their data and there's no one to identify

I plan to reply with a short letter confirming those steps. It says I don't agree with the allegations and don't admit liability, and that I reserve my rights.

My questions:

1. Legally, is a written confirmation like this usually enough to resolve a cease-and-desist, or could they still sue me? They're in the US and I'm in Quebec.
2. Could a reply like that be used against me later, even with the "no admission of liability" line?
3. Is there a legal reason to have a lawyer send the reply instead of sending it myself?

Thanks for any help.

This is a question regarding my girlfriend. She works with a clinic starting from January. So total of 10 months of employment. Today out of nowhere the employer told her that she is being laid off. Since the doctor in clinic resigned so they do not require her to work anymore. Now, the employer told her that she can apply for EI as she is being laid off. And the reason employer told is that you are the newest hire so we have to let you go. The other employee will take her place.

The striking question is - the employer didn’t offer any severance pay after 10 months of work. My gf is not under a contract and works full time in that clinic. They literally have 0 legal grounds for terminating her. She is a good worker and hasn’t had any write ups whatsoever. What are my options and how should we proceed this situation. Much appreciated for the help.

I live in alberta and in my town there is a man who has had 200 cats previously removed from him property. The man has gathered more cats which are not neutered, mallnuriched, pregnant, or injured. The town that I live in also has a cat rescue that I am in contact with but they said there's not much we can do.

The owner of the cats has been violent in the past with the cat rescue due to the removal of the cats.

The man hasn't been home in quite a long time as he spends the night at someone else's house and has recently bought a second home.

Bylaw doesn't deal with cats and if there is food and water visible on the property nothing will be done. The closest SPCA near me is full and can't handle a problem this large.

I feel like there's something I need to do and I don't know if I even can do anything.

I live in an upper townhouse and the unit below us has an older couple that smokes in their unit.

Moved in here March 1st and signed a one year lease. Strata states no smoking outside, I’m assuming this means you can smoke in your unit - I never recieved clarification on this when I asked my landlord.

When we first moved in we couldn’t figure out what the smell was and thought maybe it was lingering smell from the previous tenants. It was so strong and would come and go. After a while we figured it out.
We walked by the front door of our neighbours when a nurse was leaving and were blasted with the most foul stale disgusting cigarette smoke smell.

It comes up mostly in the bedroom, bed room bathroom and kitchen near the sink and adjacent cupboards. There’s been times where I was working in the kitchen and it’s so bad I have to wear a mask.

This was brought up to the landlord. We discovered it was cigarette smoke when he (landlord) knocked on their door to inquire. The owner was also a huge dick to my landlord about it. So we do not want to confront them ourselves.
The strata was notified and they said the owners were going to “mitigate”

The smell decreased and became bearable.
Though it was being pumped outside by their air conditioners so we get the smell blowing into our h it when our windows are open from the front and the back.

I think they were reducing the smoke by using their air conditioners this summer.
Now the air conditioners are gone and the smell has become unbearable again.

I’ve brought this up with my landlord on August 20th and he said he would contact the strata agajn…. But nothing.
He keeps telling us he’s working with the strata to remediate it but it’s been 7 months with minimal change.

It’s so bad I can’t even open the cupboards near the kitchen sink or sleep in my bedroom.
I’ve even resorted to leaving the house just to escape the smell.
And to make matters worse, this townhouse has awful Airflow. Smells linger and I go above and beyond cleaning and airing it out.

I have been emailing him instead of text messaging to have a documentation of the complaints I’ve made.

Seems like we need to move… but we are on a lease until March 2027 and moving is so expensive and difficult.

I just don’t know what hat to do?

Posting simply out of curiosity. I am not the party affected by the incident detailed below.

A tailor's building caught fire due to a dryer being left to run overnight. Firefighters contained the fire, preventing much damage to the surrounding buildings. However, the shoe store next door was affected with minor flooding from the hoses, including water damage to their product and a mess on the floor. When the shoe store manager arrived in the morning, he was completely unaware of the condition his store was in. He slipped on the water, seriously injuring his knee and preventing him from working.

Can he pursue legal action over this injury, and who would be most liable?

Dad is in the ICU in a hospital in Europe where is unconscious (for over 6 months), he is not a citizen or resident of that country. He does not have a POA or Will. No travel insurance, and therefore the hospital bill is not being paid currently, and therefore the hospital is not willing to provide us any letters to show he is incapacitated. Dad has properties outside of Canada (Westbank, Palestinian territory), and we have concerns that someone in Westbank is going to forge papers to sell such properties and we want to get in front of this issue. My question is, legally can get any court order in Ontario or a way to allow us act on his behalf for the property outside of Canada. He is a resident of Ontario and have lived in Canada for more than 20 years.

Edit: Dad is a Canadian Citizen

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My friend and I are looking for updates on her ex’s criminal court case in the Ontario superior court. He had his pre-trial mid last week and the portal has not been updated - the next date and previous date just say N/A. It used to update immediately. Any thoughts?