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We recently reviewed an arbitration decision by Mark Hart. There’s enough to say about this decision that we have divided this into two editions of From Case to Practice. This Part 1 focuses on making policy decisions.
Alyssa Gassi began working as a Municipal Prosecutor for The Corporation of the County of Lambton (the “County”) on October 28, 2024. Her employment was terminated on a with-cause basis on April 4, 2025.
In our investigation training sessions, it’s interesting how often participants say that when they can’t decide at the end of an investigation, they just say the allegation is “unsubstantiated.”
In 2021, concerns about the leadership of Mary Lynne Campbell, an Alberta public school division superintendent, were raised through the submission of a complaint under Alberta’s whistleblower protection legislation (PIDA).
Recently, while discussing investigations with my partner Christine Thomlinson for the first instalment of the Investigator Chronicles, she asked me about the most difficult investigation I had ever conducted.
In this case involving Queen’s University, two individuals brought a motion in court to put an immediate stop to an ongoing harassment investigation being conducted by an external investigator.
I attended the “HR Leaders Summit Canada” conference last week, and participated in a panel where we discussed how human resources can lead organizations for “clarity, capacity, and care.” My co-panelists (Mark Edgar, Rawan El-Komos, and Momina Javaid, moderated by Donna Gray) had much insight and excellent ideas for HR professionals.
