Len Rotman

Professor of Law & Business, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan U. Interests: Corporate Theory/Governance, Fiduciary Duties, Indigenous Law.

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@LawProfHolloway I see your vintage baseball cards and raise you my Canada Fitness Award of Excellence

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@LawProfHolloway @CynthiaDale @CBC 2/referenced Leon’s case. The Ontario courts have still not truly caught up to that ruling!

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@LawProfHolloway @CynthiaDale @CBC 1/I still remember the episode where Leon got the Ontario Court of Appeal to find that the province owed a fiduciary duty to his Indigenous band client. I was articling at the time and was trying to prove that exact issue, so I told my principal that I found a precedent and

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@LexisNexisCan @mkianieff https://t.co/UdKA53xRNp

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Just Published - Canadian Corporate Law: Cases, Notes & Materials, 5th Edition today - https://t.co/toUCaI9rPB @ProfessorRotman
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@LexisNexisCan @mkianieff Nice to see this new edition available, in conjunction with my good friend and former colleague Muharem Kianieff!

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@robyndoolittle Congratulations on your new portfolio. I’d be happy to chat if you think I can be of assistance in your reporting.

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@IThinkIAgree Did you know that the HBC was also responsible for governing what was then called Rupert’s Land for more than 200 years until transferring that responsibility to Canada? Quite a unique origin story for a department store!

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It’s good to see charges finally being laid in this case.

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Karima Manji, Amira Gill and Nadya Gill have been charged with two counts each of fraud over $5,000 | @DaniParadis
https://t.co/ms2JGKpZ09

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@ethicsblogger @MacSweeneyG @ProfMarcoux Congrats on this, Chris. I’ve downloaded it also, so getting closer to 500,000 downloads!

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@LinfordInfo @ProfRobAnderson @zvisrosen What about the companies that cheaply reprint some treatise on Mortmain and charge $200 for it? Is that related to this issue? There was an issue years ago in Canada about copyright in headnotes based on things like formatting, not just content.

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@ProfRobAnderson How about an article called “Fair Use vs. Zombies” — arguing, at the least, for an expanded fair use exception to copyright for older “zombie” books?

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@ProfRobAnderson I fully agree. I write on Equity & Trusts, so there are lots of books with ye olde spelling of words that exist, but can’t be accessed because law school libraries either sell off their copies (that are now selling for $500 on so-called “thrift book sites) or put them in storage.

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@AnnMLipton Does Anheuser-Busch get sued next, or did the market share destruction of Bud Light serve this same purpose?

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@AnnMLipton How does citing Barlow assist them at all with their ridiculous argument?

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@DaniParadis It remains to be seen what, if anything, happens to the sisters and their real mother. Intention to defraud seems to exist (scholarships/other benefits received from Indigenous organizations). But how did the connection between them and the alleged birth mother come to exist?

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Their brother has said they are not adopted. Neither the Gill sisters nor Karima Manji have responded to requests for comment.

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The three women applied for enrolment under the Nunavut Agreement in 2016 (Gill twins) and 2018 (Manji),” said the statement emailed to APTN news.

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Statement from the Noah Family regarding the Gill Twins.

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Karima Manji may have committed a fraud on the NTI with her seemingly false claim of Inuk identify for her daughters. If so, the NTI may be an innocent victim, but it needs to conduct a serious investigation and shore up its membership process: https://t.co/7TP5Tv2KOC

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From this release, it appears that the mother, Karima Manji, who defrauded the March of Dimes charity of $800K, made the claim of Inuk identity for her daughters, who then claimed Inuk identity. It also appears that no verification was sought from the alleged birth mother.