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Release: Appeal Panel public hearing over Alberta government’s ‘tax and refund’ policy for beer today

Post published:January 25, 2018
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Calgary – On January 25, 2018, Calgary-based, Artisan Ales, is appearing in Montreal before an appellate panel assembled under the Agreement on Internal Trade (“AIT”) in its ongoing challenge to the Alberta government’s discriminatory treatment of out-of-province craft beer. You can read Artisan Ales’s appeal factum here. Today’s hearing concerns…

Ian Mulgrew: Medicare trial showcases legal complacency

Post published:January 24, 2018
Post category:News

The much-delayed marathon constitutional challenge to Medicare, which began in September 2016 and has crawled through nearly 100 days of court time, now won’t resume hearing testimony until April. Adjourned late last year, the constitutional challenge currently NOT being heard in B.C. Supreme Court is an epic example of the…

CFIB’s 12 things small businesses will be watching out for in 2018

Post published:January 17, 2018
Post category:News

The Gérard Comeau case, involving a New Brunswick man who had the audacity to buy cheap beer in Quebec and to bring it home, is set for a decision at the Supreme Court this year (editor’s note: CFIB is an intervenor in this case). If the justices go the right…

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