A Canadian court has recently ruled that a thumbs-up emoji (👍🏽) sent as a text message can be interpreted as consent to a contract – in what is being seen as an unusual case, with courts deciding on the meaning of emojis that are now liberally used in daily online conversations.
The case here involved people from two companies, South West Terminal Ltd. (SWT) and Achter Land & Cattle Ltd., who had done business with each other in the past. SWT sued Achter, a farming company, for a breach of contract and an alleged failure on their part to deliver…
Reforms lower entry requirements for work visas according to professional qualifications, age and language skills.The German parliament has approved immigration reforms designed to attract skilled workers to the country, which is suffering from an unprecedented labor shortage.
The legislation – initiated by the governing centre-left coalition of the Social Democrats, the liberal Free Democrats and the Greens – on Friday garnered 388 votes while 234 lawmakers voted against it and 31 abstained.
A conservative parliamentary bloc made up of the Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, voted against the legislation, arguing that it…
The southwestern Ontario township in the midst of a culture war over gay Pride symbols hired a boutique law firm that specializes in representing churches and religious institutions to help it draft its flag by law, CBC News has learned.
Norwich Township used the Ottawa-based Acacia Group to help it come up with its flag and banner policy, township clerk and chief administrative officer Kyle Kruger confirmed.
The controversial bylaw forbids non-civic flags from being flown on municipal property and led one councillor to resign in protest.
The Acacia Group is a law firm with Christian roots. A statement on…
EATON COUNTY, Mich. (WILX) – New gun reform laws in Michigan are creating controversy in some communities.
The sheriff’s office in Eaton County is being asked to decide between enforcing new state laws or enforcing new county resolutions.
The Eaton County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution to make the county a “constitutional county.”
The Livingston County Sheriff and Board of Commissioners previously said they won’t enforce the red flag law, and the Eaton County Board of Commissioners recently passed a similar resolution.
“Because mainly, I believe in the second amendment of the constitution, that allows us to take and…
A man charged with providing banned substances to Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare and another athlete pleaded guilty Monday, marking the first conviction under a landmark US law designed to target wide-ranging doping schemes across the globe.
Eric Lira pleaded guilty for his role in helping Olympic athletes obtain performance-enhancing substances before the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
The US attorney in Manhattan, Damian Williams, called the plea “a watershed moment for international sport.”
“Craven’s efforts to undermine the integrity of sport subverts the purpose of the Olympic games: to showcase athletic excellence through a level playing field,” he said in a…
Two hospitals that refused to provide an emergency abortion to a pregnant woman who was experiencing premature labor put her life in jeopardy and violated federal law, a first-of-its-kind investigation by the federal government has found.The findings, revealed in documents obtained by The Associated Press, are a warning to hospitals around the country as they struggle to reconcile dozens of new state laws that ban or strictly restrict abortion with a federal mandate for doctors to provide abortions when a woman’s health is at risk. The competing edicts have been rolled out since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional…
Reporters Without Borders criticizes the legislation saying it has ‘negative chapters’ that constitute a violation of press freedom.Algeria’s parliament has approved a new media law that tightens control over the work of journalists and imposes new restrictions.
While the government said the law is key to ensuring the free exercise of media activity under legal controls, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said the law included “negative chapters” that constitute a violation of press freedom.
The law bans the Algerian media from receiving any funding or material assistance from any “foreign entity”.
Communications Minister Mohamed Bouslimani said the law aims to…