Malini Vijaykumar
@malinivk.bsky.social
Labour lawyer, toddler mom, bad knitter.
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@malinivk.bsky.social joined @ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social Ask the Expert this week to talk about employee rights after job loss. Watch as she discusses the ins and outs of severance packages, and how legal advice can help you maximize what you're entitled to: loom.ly/Bh5GzzY
October 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
@malinivk.bsky.social joined @ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social Ask the Expert this week to talk about employee rights after job loss. Watch as she discusses the ins and outs of severance packages, and how legal advice can help you maximize what you're entitled to: loom.ly/Bh5GzzY
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@malinivk.bsky.social was interviewed by CBC on the legal strategy behind the Alberta Teachers’ Association’s strike and the broader labour movement’s response.
Read as she explains why timing and public sentiment are critical factors in any potential general strike:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Read as she explains why timing and public sentiment are critical factors in any potential general strike:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta labour leaders gauge interest in general strike after suspension of teachers' bargaining rights | CBC News
Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan says unions will encourage workers incensed by the provincial government’s suspension of bargaining rights to volunteer for recall campaigns and prep...
www.cbc.ca
October 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
@malinivk.bsky.social was interviewed by CBC on the legal strategy behind the Alberta Teachers’ Association’s strike and the broader labour movement’s response.
Read as she explains why timing and public sentiment are critical factors in any potential general strike:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Read as she explains why timing and public sentiment are critical factors in any potential general strike:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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@malinivk.bsky.social weighs in on the recently announced Canada Post strike for @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
RECAP | Postal workers back on nationwide strike over Canada Post reform | CBC
www.cbc.ca
September 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
@malinivk.bsky.social weighs in on the recently announced Canada Post strike for @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Reports have emerged that IBM is undertaking another workforce restructuring that may include mass terminations.
While much of the focus has been on the U.S., we understand that IBM Canada employees will also be affected.
Read more from @malinivk.bsky.social:
nelliganlaw.ca/blog/ibm-can...
While much of the focus has been on the U.S., we understand that IBM Canada employees will also be affected.
Read more from @malinivk.bsky.social:
nelliganlaw.ca/blog/ibm-can...
IBM Canada Restructuring: Key Legal Considerations for Employees - Nelligan Law
Reports have emerged that IBM is undertaking another “resource action”—its term for workforce restructurings that may include mass terminations.
nelliganlaw.ca
April 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Reports have emerged that IBM is undertaking another workforce restructuring that may include mass terminations.
While much of the focus has been on the U.S., we understand that IBM Canada employees will also be affected.
Read more from @malinivk.bsky.social:
nelliganlaw.ca/blog/ibm-can...
While much of the focus has been on the U.S., we understand that IBM Canada employees will also be affected.
Read more from @malinivk.bsky.social:
nelliganlaw.ca/blog/ibm-can...
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The federal government has announced several temporary changes to Employment Insurance that affect eligibility, benefit amounts, and how long support is available.
@malinivk.bsky.social provides a breakdown of what these changes mean for employees:
nelliganlaw.ca/blog/key-tem...
@malinivk.bsky.social provides a breakdown of what these changes mean for employees:
nelliganlaw.ca/blog/key-tem...
Key Temporary Changes to Employment Insurance in Canada - Nelligan Law
While the official text of the regulations has yet to be published at the time of this blog posting, the Federal Government has announced the changes in a
nelliganlaw.ca
April 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The federal government has announced several temporary changes to Employment Insurance that affect eligibility, benefit amounts, and how long support is available.
@malinivk.bsky.social provides a breakdown of what these changes mean for employees:
nelliganlaw.ca/blog/key-tem...
@malinivk.bsky.social provides a breakdown of what these changes mean for employees:
nelliganlaw.ca/blog/key-tem...
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Did you know that in Canada, your IP (such as a bestselling book, invention, or brand) may be considered property when it comes to divorce and separation?
In our latest blog, Alaina Woolfrey and Erin McEwen explain how to "divorce-proof" your intellectual property:
nelliganlaw.ca/blog/divorce...
In our latest blog, Alaina Woolfrey and Erin McEwen explain how to "divorce-proof" your intellectual property:
nelliganlaw.ca/blog/divorce...
Divorce-Proofing Your Intellectual Property: How to Keep Your Genius Out of the Marital Asset Split - Nelligan Law
Let’s explore how "divorce-proofing” your IP can keep your business, brand, and creative works safe from a messy breakup.
nelliganlaw.ca
March 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Did you know that in Canada, your IP (such as a bestselling book, invention, or brand) may be considered property when it comes to divorce and separation?
In our latest blog, Alaina Woolfrey and Erin McEwen explain how to "divorce-proof" your intellectual property:
nelliganlaw.ca/blog/divorce...
In our latest blog, Alaina Woolfrey and Erin McEwen explain how to "divorce-proof" your intellectual property:
nelliganlaw.ca/blog/divorce...
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The Conservative Party of Canada has funded far-right outlets through paid advertising. An appalling example here (screen shot I took ~1.5 years ago). Under no circumstances should Rebel or The Counter Signal directly/indirectly receive federal funding.
February 19, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The Conservative Party of Canada has funded far-right outlets through paid advertising. An appalling example here (screen shot I took ~1.5 years ago). Under no circumstances should Rebel or The Counter Signal directly/indirectly receive federal funding.
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Man who has spent entire political career attacking everybody promises he’ll attack Trump and Elon any minute now
Man who has spent entire political career attacking everybody promises he’ll attack Trump and Elon any minute now
OTTAWA - Pierre Poilievre, who has famously spent his 21-year political career vociferously attacking any person or political entity which opposed him, has vowed to "any day now" begin training that s...
www.thebeaverton.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Man who has spent entire political career attacking everybody promises he’ll attack Trump and Elon any minute now
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31-01-1907 More than 400 women telephone operators in Toronto walk out when Bell Telephone attempts to introduce longer hours and lower pay. www.aupress.ca/books/120191...
Through Feminist Eyes - Athabasca University Press
Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisive and insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadian historian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has added...
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January 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
31-01-1907 More than 400 women telephone operators in Toronto walk out when Bell Telephone attempts to introduce longer hours and lower pay. www.aupress.ca/books/120191...
This is a really nice way to end the week. Side note: I have always been proud of the fact that the one word all my clients agree on to describe me is "kind". Who needs anything else?
January 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This is a really nice way to end the week. Side note: I have always been proud of the fact that the one word all my clients agree on to describe me is "kind". Who needs anything else?
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Regulations, like labor laws, are written in blood.
Adding chalk or plaster of Paris to flour killed people until that was regulated.
Lead in paint. Asbestos. Arsenic.
Not letting children work with limb-chopping machinery.
Blood.
Adding chalk or plaster of Paris to flour killed people until that was regulated.
Lead in paint. Asbestos. Arsenic.
Not letting children work with limb-chopping machinery.
Blood.
This is the part.
Keeping people alive by not poisoning the plants and animals they eat cost money--that's what the fuck "regulations" are about. The press has willingly cooperated with corporations to pretend "regulations" just increase food prices for no reason.
Keeping people alive by not poisoning the plants and animals they eat cost money--that's what the fuck "regulations" are about. The press has willingly cooperated with corporations to pretend "regulations" just increase food prices for no reason.
People also radically underestimate just how murderous a corporation is willing to be to save a dollar. Everybody imagines a common-sense person hemmed in by onerous requirements, not a sociopathic ghoul looking to juice a quarterly spreadsheet at literally any cost.
January 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Regulations, like labor laws, are written in blood.
Adding chalk or plaster of Paris to flour killed people until that was regulated.
Lead in paint. Asbestos. Arsenic.
Not letting children work with limb-chopping machinery.
Blood.
Adding chalk or plaster of Paris to flour killed people until that was regulated.
Lead in paint. Asbestos. Arsenic.
Not letting children work with limb-chopping machinery.
Blood.
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Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
www.ft.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment
Imagine a Canada where an article like this would be posted as a normal course of business, as part of a healthy labour ecosystem.
FINLAND: Solidarity actions by SAK affiliates to boost Industrial Union collective bargaining www.sak.fi/en/topics/ne...
Solidarity actions by SAK affiliates to boost Industrial Union collective bargaining
The sympathy industrial actions seek to boost and support the efforts of the Industrial Union to secure reasonable terms and conditions of employment for its members.
www.sak.fi
January 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Imagine a Canada where an article like this would be posted as a normal course of business, as part of a healthy labour ecosystem.
Things are not, in fact, entirely awful.
January 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Things are not, in fact, entirely awful.
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Supreme Court Canada agreed to hear court challenge against #Quebec's controversial secularism law, known as #Bill21 banning religious symbols using Charter notwithstanding clause. #SCC www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Supreme Court of Canada will hear legal challenge on Quebec secularism law | CBC News
The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear a court challenge against Quebec's controversial secularism law, known as Bill 21.
www.cbc.ca
January 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Supreme Court Canada agreed to hear court challenge against #Quebec's controversial secularism law, known as #Bill21 banning religious symbols using Charter notwithstanding clause. #SCC www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Just to be clear, this continues to be bizarre and horrifying, yeah?
President-elect Donald Trump will take the oath of office at noon followed by a presidential parade, signing ceremony and inaugural balls.
Inside Trump's Inauguration Day: How, when and what to watch
President-elect Donald Trump will take the oath of office at noon followed by a presidential parade, signing ceremony and inaugural balls.
www.npr.org
January 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Just to be clear, this continues to be bizarre and horrifying, yeah?
I don't mean to be That Mom but this is clearly a work of postmodern genius
January 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I don't mean to be That Mom but this is clearly a work of postmodern genius
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Supreme Court Canada cases: a look back and look ahead. Judgements, leaves and notables of 2024, and what's to come in 2025. @journodale.bsky.social #scc #cdnlaw www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
Supreme cases: a look back and look ahead
Judgements, leaves and notables of 2024, and what's to come in 2025
www.nationalmagazine.ca
January 18, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Supreme Court Canada cases: a look back and look ahead. Judgements, leaves and notables of 2024, and what's to come in 2025. @journodale.bsky.social #scc #cdnlaw www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
Hi Bluesky! I'm new on this block. Who else is here?
January 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Hi Bluesky! I'm new on this block. Who else is here?