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		<title>Workplace Harassment Liability for Employers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>newmandavidg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employers in Manitoba may not be aware of recent amendments to regulations to the Workplace Safety and Health Act (the &#8220;Act&#8221;) which place a number of strict duties on employers relating to the creation, maintenance and enforcement of certain workplace policies.  The protection of workers in their employment remains one of the key purposes of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitblawg.com&amp;blog=10867448&amp;post=3220&amp;subd=pitblawg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PitbLAWg may be AWOL on January 18, 2012.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Wallace</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a USA Today article &#8220;TwitPic, WordPress to go dark for online SOPA protest&#8221; Yamiche Alcindor reported that WordPress, along with other websites will not available on Wednesday January 18, 2012 to protest the proposed US legislation, Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act. WordPress is the host site for PitbLAWg. If WordPress [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitblawg.com&amp;blog=10867448&amp;post=3210&amp;subd=pitblawg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Expansions of the Concept of Latent Defects in Residential Real Estate Transactions</title>
		<link>http://pitblawg.com/2011/12/08/expansions-of-the-concept-of-latent-defects-in-residential-real-estate-transactions/</link>
		<comments>http://pitblawg.com/2011/12/08/expansions-of-the-concept-of-latent-defects-in-residential-real-estate-transactions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ned Brown</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Due Diligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A purchaser of residential real estate closes the transaction, moves in and then subsequently discovers that there is a convicted pedophile living across the street.  The new purchaser has a young family living with him.  Is the existence of the neighbouring pedophile a &#8220;latent defect&#8221; under real estate contract law sufficient to enable the purchaser [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitblawg.com&amp;blog=10867448&amp;post=3173&amp;subd=pitblawg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act takes effect October 17, 2011</title>
		<link>http://pitblawg.com/2011/11/28/canada-not-for-profit-corporations-act-takes-effect-october-17-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Madison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are involved with a federally incorporated charity or non-profit corporation, you need to know that the law has recently changed and that you must take steps to address this.  To learn what is required and how this change in the law will affect your organization, take a look at the PitbLAWg post by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitblawg.com&amp;blog=10867448&amp;post=3157&amp;subd=pitblawg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing property after marriage breakdown</title>
		<link>http://pitblawg.com/2011/11/10/sharing-property-after-marriage-breakdown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Greasley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many times, clients do not know how to deal with jointly owned property after their marriage or common law relationship has broken down. In his recent Whiteboard session on this topic, Les Kirchner discusses who is affected by property laws, what constitutes property, and how to define the general property categories. Les points out that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitblawg.com&amp;blog=10867448&amp;post=3133&amp;subd=pitblawg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toyota advertising case raises privacy issues</title>
		<link>http://pitblawg.com/2011/11/07/toyota-advertising-case-raises-privacy-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Bowman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2009, a woman initiated a lawsuit against a Californian advertising firm and Toyota U.S.A. because of an aggressive advertising campaign that she claimed was designed to make individuals believe they were being stalked by a criminal (which, in fact, turned out to be fictitious).  While the charges are now being dealt with by the Los Angeles Superior [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitblawg.com&amp;blog=10867448&amp;post=3128&amp;subd=pitblawg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Manitoba Franchises Regulation &#8211; Public Consultation</title>
		<link>http://pitblawg.com/2011/11/04/manitoba-franchises-regulation-public-consultation/</link>
		<comments>http://pitblawg.com/2011/11/04/manitoba-franchises-regulation-public-consultation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Ogaranko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since becoming the fifth jurisdiction in Canada to adopt franchise legislation with the passage of The Franchises Act (the &#8220;Act&#8220;) on June 17, 2010, the Manitoba Government has been developing the Franchises Regulation which has been released this week for public consultation and may be reviewed here . The Act will come into force on a date [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitblawg.com&amp;blog=10867448&amp;post=3119&amp;subd=pitblawg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PERSONAL PROPERTY SECURITY ACT REGULATIONS</title>
		<link>http://pitblawg.com/2011/11/04/personal-property-security-act-regulations-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ned Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When taking security from a general (as opposed to a limited) partnership, the creditor must list as debtors in its financing statement both the partnership name plus the names of each of the partners of the partnership. This can cause difficulties when the partnership in question comprises many partners. For an expansion on these problems, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitblawg.com&amp;blog=10867448&amp;post=3099&amp;subd=pitblawg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New rules affect apartment conversions</title>
		<link>http://pitblawg.com/2011/10/31/new-rules-affect-apartment-conversions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Giesbrecht</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many property owners have been working all year getting apartment buildings registered as condominiums, but this will be much harder when new laws come into effect on November 7. The government hasn&#8217;t quite slammed the door on conversions, but almost. See my Whiteboard Session for more details. &#160; Filed under: Business Development, Commercial Transactions, Condominiums, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitblawg.com&amp;blog=10867448&amp;post=3094&amp;subd=pitblawg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Overtime, and who is entitled to it?</title>
		<link>http://pitblawg.com/2011/10/18/what-is-overtime-and-who-is-entitled-to-it/</link>
		<comments>http://pitblawg.com/2011/10/18/what-is-overtime-and-who-is-entitled-to-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Hecht</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a fundamental principle of employment law that is vital to every employer – employee relationship. The respective rights and obligations of employees and employers relating to overtime are governed in Manitoba by the provisions of the Employment Standards Code. The basic principle is that where an employee works more than 8 hours in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pitblawg.com&amp;blog=10867448&amp;post=3086&amp;subd=pitblawg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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