Ryley Law

03/24/2026

"The Future of Sport in Canada Commission, led by former Chief Justice Lise Maisonneuve, has issued nearly 100 calls to action that range from immediately increasing funding to the sport system, to a long-term goal of creating a “centralized sport entity” to oversee sport in Canada.

“As we examined the Canadian sport system, it became very clear that the challenges in Canadian sport are profound — from underfunding and governance deficits, duplication of efforts among organizations, fragmentation and a lack of integration of policies and programs, to an unhealthy focus on high-performance outcomes over participant safety and dignity,” Maisonneuve wrote in her report."

A commission studying the future of sport in Canada has called for sweeping change to the way sport is structured, after its work found “the widespread presence of maltreatment and abuse” in a poorly resourced and organized system.

03/03/2026

"Fifty-one per cent of harassment complaints in the federal government target managers or supervisors. This figure is only 31 per cent in federally regulated private companies such as those in the transportation or financial services sector."

1️⃣ 13% increase between 2023 and 2024; double the number of sexual (versus other forms) of harassment

2️⃣ Call for better training than the course used "WMT 101"(Genevieve Desmarais) which is inadequate: "The issue of sexual harassment is buried in all the training on psychological harassment"

3️⃣ Call for disciplinary measures arising from investigations (Pascale Leroy): ""It's going to require people being very bold and very aggressive, and almost making examples of individuals, in order to make something change." https://hubs.ly/Q045mNvP0

Harassment cases in the federal government more often involve managers or people in positions of authority than in several parts of the private sector, according to the latest figures published by the government.

02/11/2026

TODAY Feb 11, 1pm-4:15pm: Webinar: "Inside Workplace Investigations" from HR Law Canada. Jan Parnega and I are speaking on "Anonymous Reporting: What are the Impacts on the Investigation Process & the Affected Parties?"

Free event - register here https://hubs.ly/Q042BwXn0

Other sessions: https://hubs.ly/Q042Bvrf0

1️⃣ "Beyond the Complaint: Mastering Workplace Investigations From Day One"

2️⃣ "Investigating Sexual Harassment Complaints: Common Challenges, Practical Solutions, and Recent Developments"

3️⃣ "Where the Rubber Meets the Road: When Your Founded Investigation Poses Legal Liabilities"

4️⃣"Hidden Dynamics in Investigations"

Join HR Law Canada, HR News Canada, and Safety News Canada for this special roundtable event.

10/22/2025

The (job search) struggle is real:

“We’ve long been sold the idea of work as identity, purpose, and social mobility. So what happens if the machine breaks down? When people are doing everything “right” — networking, optimizing, trawling LinkedIn — and still hearing nothing back? What does it feel like to search for employment now, to swim against the current in the sea of American insecurity?” By Sarah Thankam Mathews

Podcast Episode · Apple News+ Narrated · 2025-10-20 · Subscribers Only · 20m

08/27/2024

In Canada and US - employers must investigate complaints of harassment - and make best efforts to prevent it (ie. policies and training) to limit or avoid liability.

A former X-ray technician for the Surgery Center of New England claims its HR department never responded to reports that two male employees took inappropriate photos of her and showed them to co-workers.

05/06/2024

Law Society of Ontario event May 6 online. This year’s program will feature a short documentary on Benjamin Ferencz (1920-2023), the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials.

“Nuremberg was also the site of post-World War II trials, which operated between 1945 and 1946 under the administration of the International Military Tribunal (IMT), established by the Allies. The surviving leaders of N**i Germany were tried for crimes committed during World War II, including the Holocaust. Trials of former N**is continued outside of Nuremberg, including the 1962 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel and the more recent trial of Oskar Groening, in Germany in 2015.” Link https://lso.ca/news-events/events/events-2024/holocaust-remembrance-day-program

01/25/2024

Whoah: “The Toronto-based bank launched a probe after a young male banker raised concerns about harassment and bullying, Canada’s Globe and Mail said. The newspaper reported that the person, who worked in the bank’s mining and metals group, was subjected to homophobic slurs in person and online.”

Six people have left Bank of Montreal after an investigation into “completely unacceptable” behaviour in its investment banking group.

10/20/2023

The Ryley Learning team is up and running for the season! York Mills Hockey Club

05/08/2023

A company rejected a man's application for employment, saying they couldn’t move forward with his candidacy because of “concerns about the way you present yourself online.”

4 years earlier, he had tweeted, “Don’t wanna be difficult but if the whole foods at Yonge and Sheppard doesn’t restock ponzu sauce at the stir fry counter I will set this place ablaze.”

"A new survey of U.S. hiring managers and employees by comparison platform ...shows 68 per cent of hiring managers research a candidate on social media before offering them a job, 30 per cent have not hired someone solely because of their social media presence and 66 per cent say a severely inappropriate social media presence is more concerning than a misdemeanour offence."

A new survey shows 68 per cent of U.S. hiring managers research a candidate on social media before offering them a job

12/12/2022

"She and a group of like-minded 911 operators developed the training to try to ensure they don't "transfer the bias that some citizens have" onto the information cards they fill out during each call."

The training provided to 911 operators prompted the operators to question how they can prevent biases or racist stereotypes from filtering into police responses.

12/05/2022

Somehow I missed this earlier. insider training: "CBS and its former president, Leslie Moonves, will pay $30.5 million US as part of an agreement with the New York attorney general's office, which says the network's executives conspired with a Los Angeles police captain to conceal sexual assault allegations against Moonves.... At least one of those executives — one of the few privy to an internal investigation — sold nearly $9 million dollars in stocks before the allegations against Moonves became public, which the attorney general's office said amounted to insider trading."

CBS and its former president, Leslie Moonves, will pay $30.5 million US as part of an agreement with the New York attorney general's office, which says the network's executives conspired with a Los Angeles police captain to conceal sexual assault allegations against Moonves.