Kevin P. Siu

Lawyer 👨‍⚖ Engineer 👷‍♂ Foodie 🥑

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

Building the Relief Line is my top transit priority. My plan will get it built 3 years earlier than currently planned. #topoli

[Gilbert's LLP @GilbertsLLP]

The #USMCA will bring big changes to #IP rights for Canadians. Among other things, the copyright term will be 70 yrs post-death of the author, and biologics data protection will be upped to a 10 yr term. How will this affect your business and innovations? https://t.co/H0R2jTZ1W0

[Kevin P. Siu @kevinpsiu]

Just had a fun few days in #Austin thanks to @limebike scooters (best way to actually 'see' the city IMO). No doubt whenever they decide to show up in un-fun #Toronto they will be immediately dumped on by #NIMBY types who don't even live downtown. https://t.co/dR3TQkpyPI

[Kevin P. Siu @kevinpsiu]

@BrendaCossman If only we lived in a world of principles! Alas...

[Kevin P. Siu @kevinpsiu]

The legal realist in me thinks the ON Court of Appeal stayed the judgment below to avert a constitutional crisis, notwithstanding what they actually said in the judgment - someone has to be the adult in the room. #TOpoli

[Kevin P. Siu @kevinpsiu]

@yuris It means you aren’t providing enough value add! #buzzwords

[SCC Case Tweets @SCC_Case_Tweets]

If you really want to shake down Canadians for downloading your movie, you have to pay for it. TBH this wasn’t really a difficult case. #scc

https://t.co/pDlYrg91q2

[Kevin P. Siu @kevinpsiu]

Who would have thought that the first time Ontario would invoke the notwithstanding clause would be for some petty municipal affairs legislation? Law students are going to be puzzling over this for decades to come. What a world we live in! #CanPoli #TOPoli

[Kevin P. Siu @kevinpsiu]

I just received a telephone poll for the first time in my life and am irrationally pleased by it. Now I can no longer ask who answers these things and where the damn results came from! #TOpoli #DataScience

[Kevin P. Siu @kevinpsiu]

Max Bernier has probably gone off the rocker now. This after he decided to pitch for the xenophobia vote last week. #CanPoli https://t.co/tKN7qWaiKl

[Kevin P. Siu @kevinpsiu]

Unsurprisingly (to some), the #SCC dismissed Toronto Real Estate Board's leave application re disclosure of real estate prices. Was too factually bound to have much legal importance. And it should be uncontroversial that there is no #copyright in facts. https://t.co/JBcO1i6WWV

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

Everyone who rides the subway to work or school every day knows that we’ve reached a crisis point. You wait on a dangerously overcrowded platform as packed train after packed train passes you by. And when you finally get on, you’re crushed. Toronto commuters need relief, now. 1/4

[Kevin P. Siu @kevinpsiu]

Now here's a genuine piece of good news for Toronto politics. Let's get someone who's actually competent into office, shall we? #KeesmatforMayor #bandwagon #TOpoli
https://t.co/2djrOWd6Ho

[Kevin P. Siu @kevinpsiu]

Guess you can never stop #NIMBYs from NIMBYing. The NIMBYs' arguments don't even make sense in this case. #Kensington already has large bars (see: Supermarket). Apparently having another one (which is not even true) will kill the neighbourhood? #TOpoli https://t.co/9kumonLE4R

[Kevin P. Siu @kevinpsiu]

Nothing says goodbye like a fire sale on baby sized jerseys. #goodbyedemar #babyraptors

[Kevin P. Siu @kevinpsiu]

I struggle with this phenomenon all the time, yet I still do it (and judge other people for doing it). Is that bad? #picsoritdidnthappen https://t.co/M4Jpy9r6Sx

[Kevin P. Siu @kevinpsiu]

Interesting for students concerned about teaching quality: an arbitrator ruled that student course evaluations should not be used for promotion or tenure at Ryerson. Also interesting to note how much faculty opposed student evaluations since 2003. https://t.co/pCY37Un5cL

[Kevin P. Siu @kevinpsiu]

A very modern case of internet defamation results in an unusually split set of reasons on libel tourism from the Supreme Court, once again illustrating the struggles to apply established principles to modern facts: Haaretz v Goldhar - https://t.co/aeLIwkgVV7

[Kevin P. Siu @kevinpsiu]

@sanahalwani @PaulErikVeel @PrecedentMag #2 hits too close to home! No more stacks to build a fort to hide in!

[Kevin P. Siu @kevinpsiu]

Asking a court to declare that it has no jurisdiction over a subject matter is always an uphill battle. Case in point. https://t.co/PCjYJ5p4fX

[Alan Macek @amacek]

Apotex inc. c. Pfizer 2018 QCCS 1765: "treble damages sought pursuant to the Ontario Statute of Monopolies ... is clearly a matter that can be decided by the Quebec Superior Court" https://t.co/2ttO8q7p7a