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REGIONAL WRAP UP Presented by Upcoming Conferences ELECTRONIC HEALTH AND MEDICAL RECORDS March 12 – 13, 2008 | Calgary PRIVATE EQUITY March 26 – 27, 2008 | Montréal INTERNET LAW March 27 – 28, 2008 | Toronto RISK MANAGEMENT IN THE WORKPLACE March 31 – April 1, 2008 | Ottawa E-CLINICAL TRIALS March 31 – April 1, 2008 | Montréal April 28 – 29, 2008 | Calgary MAJOR BUSINESS AGREEMENTS March 31 – April 1, 2008 | Halifax INSOLVABILITÉ April 7 – 8, 2008 | Montréal REAL ESTATE FINANCE April 7 – 8, 2008 MEDICAL MALPRACTICE April 14 – 15, 2008 | Toronto E-DISCOVERY April 17 – 18, 2008 | Vancouver MINING TAXATION April 18 -19, 2008 | Vancouver ENROLL TODAY! 1 888 777-1707 www.insightinfo.com Media Partner MOVES & SHAKES NOVA SCOTIA Marc Beaubien joins the Halifax office of Cox & Palmer in the firm's real property practice area. QUEBEC Former Supreme Court of Canada justice Louis- Philippe de Grandpré passed away on Jan. 25. He was 90. The Montrealer was a partner and later counsel to the law firm Lafleur Brown de Grandpré. He sat on the Supreme Court from January 1974 until October 1977, and was president of the Canadian Bar Association in 1972-73. Four new lawyers have joined Lavery de Billy LLP in Montreal. They are Emma Beauchamp, Jamil Chammas, Jean-Michel Fournier and Jonathan Warin. ONTARIO Dan McKay and Todd Storms have joined Gowling in Toronto. McKay is a partner in the IP group who comes from Nuvo Research Inc. Storms comes from and is an associate in its commercial litigation group. Mary Margaret Fox has joined insurance litigation firm Nicholl Paskell-Mede in Toronto. She is one of Canada's pre-eminent insurance law practitioners with 12 M ARCH 2008 www. C ANADIAN Law ye rmag.com a special interest in directors' and officers' liability and professional indemnity. Cheryl A. Edwards joins LLP as leader in the firm's national OH&S and Workplace Safety and Insurance Board practice. She moved from Stringer . BRITISH COLUMBIA Deborah Overholt has been appointed to the position of regional managing partner for Borden Ladner Gervais LLP and is responsible for overseeing operations at the firm's Vancouver office. Donald R. Munroe has joined Vancouver and Victoria offices as counsel. Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP announced that senior practitioners William Sirett, Bruce Sinclair, and Robert Kopstein have joined the tax and securities practices of its Vancouver office. Before coming to Blakes, the three were partners with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. Please send your submissions for Moves and Shakes to moves@clbmedia.ca Halifax became the first city in Canada to accept virtual petitions, and now Diana Whalen, deputy Liberal leader, is pushing for the province to do the same. If Nova Scotia does, it would be the only prov- ince in the country that allows citizens to make their discontent known electronically. Whalen is pushing for macy — making sure pe- titioners are who they say they are — that is an issue regardless of technology, Whalen contends. One thing seems cer- Barnet prefers education over enforcement. the province to move for- ward with legislation now. It's not the first time she's tried. This is her fourth attempt on this particular issue. It is, however, the first time it looks like she might be successful. The Halifax MLA brushes aside con- cerns of privacy and authenticity. On the first front, she counters, the technology now allows for a variety of fields to be included in a file, and for those fields to be protected. As for the issue of legiti- tain: Nova Scotia is forging new ground for the rest of Canada. Its anti-smoking law has led to similar pri- vate members' bills being introduced in Ontario and British Columbia, and New Brunswick is plan- ning to pass its own version this year. Online petitions, while still unpassed in any provincial legislature, are expected to become commonplace soon. As Halifax Councillor Dawn Sloane notes: "Young professionals are hooked to their e-mail, and hooked and chained to their laptops and BlackBerrys. We have to move into the future." — DONALEE MOULTON donalee@quantumcommunications.ca