Posted: Feb 08, 2021 6:10 PM PT | Last Updated: February 9
The lawsuit says one of the six men confessed to abusing children at Mount Cashel before he was transferred to Vancouver.(CBC)
A Catholic order shuffled known abusers from a notorious Newfoundland orphanage to two schools in the Vancouver area where more boys were victimized, a lawsuit alleges.
A proposed class-action suit filed Monday in British Columbia Supreme Court says between 1976 and 1983, an order called the Christian Brothers transferred six abusive members from Mount Cashel Orphanage to Vancouver College and St. Thomas More Collegiate.
The lawsuit says one of the six men, Brother Edward English, confessed to abusing children at Mount Cashel before he was transferred, and all six were later convicted of sexually or physically abusing orphans at the Newfoundland facility.
Wastech, the Court
clarified the content of another doctrine flowing from the
organizing principle: the duty to exercise contractual discretion
in good faith.
Background
Wastech involved a waste transportation company
(Wastech) and a corporation responsible for municipal waste
disposal (Metro). In 1996, Wastech and Metro entered into a
contract for waste disposal services that contemplated disposing
waste in three landfills, one of which was much farther away than
the others. The contract stated Metro had absolute
discretion in allocating the amount of waste to go to this
farther facility.
In 2011, Metro exercised this discretion by directing less waste
to go to the farther facility, causing Wastech to receive a lower
The Supreme Court of Canada released its long-anticipated decision in Wastech Services Ltd v Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District today, a major decision concerning the scope of the.
VANCOUVER - A Catholic order shuffled known abusers from a notorious Newfoundland orphanage to two schools in the Vancouver area where more boys were vi.
VANCOUVER A lawsuit alleges that a Catholic congregation shuffled abusive teachers from a notorious orphanage in Newfoundland and Labrador to two schools in the Vancouver area where more boys were victimized. The proposed class-action suit filed Monday in British Columbia Supreme Court asserts that between 1976 and 1983, six known abusers were transferred from […]