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VOL. 79 PART 6 NOVEMBER 2021
darkest evening of the year” to watch another’s “woods fill up with snow”—
whether it was also the longest night is not clear, though what is clear is that
there were “miles to go before I sleep”.
Litigation and its participants may also have miles to go before sleeping.
Justice Farley noted the “many more steps to be taken successfully” before
the reorganization at issue could be concluded and that “there are many
more miles to go before anyone can think of sleeping. I continue to urge all
concerned to focus and get on with the tasks at hand. No one should think
they smell the turkey yet; if they do, they are wishful dreaming”: Companies’
Creditors Arrangement Act, Re, 2004 CanLII 9707 (Ont. S.C.). And in
determining the costs of a motion in Fram Elgin Mills 90 Inc. v. Romandale
Farms Limited, 2016 ONSC 174, a fellow judge of the Ontario Superior Court
of Justice noted that “this litigation has miles to go before it sleeps and the
winner today may prove the loser tomorrow. I therefore seek only to get an
appropriate balance struck for this one step and shall leave the next steps
to another day.”
As the ABA Journal reported, “As of Jan. 1 2019, you are able reproduce the
Robert Frost poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening without fear of
copyright infringement.” It and other works published in 1923 “had been set
to enter the public domain in 1999. But a law passed the prior year the
Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act ‘hit a two-decade pause button and
extended their copyright term for 20 years’”.
Patrick Aldous of Chandler Fogden Aldous has been appointed senior vice
president, business and legal affairs at Nettwerk Music Group Inc.
“Correction: In yesterday’s paper in Chris Searle’s jazz albums column, we
incorrectly referred to Don Rendell as a ‘terrorist’ when it clearly should
have been ‘tenorist.’ We apologise for any offence.”—The Morning Star
The Dongzhi Festival in East Asia “celebrates the return of longer daylight
hours and ultimately an increase of positive energy. The festival’s origins
can be traced back to the yin and yang philosophy of balance and harmony”:
<www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/when-winter-solstice-shortest-day>.
At page 658 of the September 2021 issue of the Advocate, the editor, D.
Michael Bain, Q.C., referenced “Access Pro Bono” as receiving $355,773 in
2019. In fact, he should not have used the word “Access”. We understand
from Jamie Maclaren, Q.C., that the amount of $355,773 was split among
a variety of pro bono initiatives including Access Pro Bono, Pro Bono Stu-
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