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Hengyun: A Quebec Court relieves a tenant of rent obligations for pandemic-related reasons, but what does the ruling actually mean?

On July 13, 2020, the Superior Court of Quebec rendered a decision in Hengyun International Investment Commerce Inc. v. 9368-7614 Québec Inc., 2020 QCCS 2251 in which it held that a tenant was relieved from its obligation to pay rent under its lease for a gym for the months of March, April, May and part of June 2020.

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Significant online defamation damages in Canada — are online platforms immune?‎

If only Canada were to have such clear laws. Here, it is critical for operators of online platforms to understand that this issue remains largely unlegislated and left to the common law; which holds that a person will not be responsible, as a publisher, if the person’s sole participation in the publication of the defamatory material is merely their “innocent” involvement in the purely administrative or mechanical phases of publication.

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