Good afternoon.
This past week, the Court of Appeal for Ontario provided us with
several substantive and interesting civil decisions.
The Court of Appeal released two related decisions in
Subway
Franchise Systems of Canada, Inc. v. Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation. Subway sued the CBC and Trent University, which
conducted DNA testing for the CBC, after the CBC broadcasted a
widley publicized story that Subway s chicken sandwiches only
contained 50% of actual chicken. Both decisions dealt with
Anti-SLAPP provisions in s.137.1 of the
Courts of Justice
Act, which were recently considered by the Supreme Court of
Canada companion decisions in
1704604 Ontario Ltd. v. Pointes