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Robert Steven
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Once and future thing
The lawyer didn’t write the story, and she wasn’t wrong in law; she was just unfamiliar with the context.

She and the writer are clearly unaware of the AF issue. Each should have done better, but their failures are understandable.

The Minster and the University, however, are misleading at best.
September 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I defer to your expertise, but respectfully, “your employer can terminate you” isn’t an analysis of the facts. And “depending on university policies” is a correct statement, even though the university’s actual policies are the inverse of her examples. Her comments are irrelevant but not quite wrong.
September 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The lawyer was correct about the law, but uninformed about the university’s employment contract, which would “provide a greater benefit to an employee than the employment standard” under the ESA. Absent such a contract, any employer in Ontario can indeed “terminate you for any reason, so long as….”
September 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM