Canadian Pharmacy Law
Marie Berry, B.A., B.Sc. (Pharm), LL.B.  was called to the Manitoba Bar in 1993 and is experienced in the full range of a general law practice, specializing in health care law. She is a practising pharmacist in Winnipeg and is also active in professional and community promotion of education on drug use, prevention and health care.

Through her company, Drug Smart Communications Ltd., Ms. Berry produces educational videos on drug use for the public, health support groups and professionals and is the author of numerous articles and publications

in her area of specialty. She is the recipient of the James Hartley Beal Award, 1992, American Society for Pharmacy Law, for her paper “The Canadian Pharmacist’s Duty to Counsel,” and was the first Canadian and first woman to win the international competition. She also received “Pharmacist of the Year” honours from The Manitoba Pharmaceutical Association in 1983.

The Law of Employee Monitoring in Canada
Melanie R. Bueckert, LL.B., LL.M., is Legal Research Counsel with the Manitoba Court of Appeal. She earned her LL.M. from the University of Manitoba in 2008 based on her studies of electronic employee monitoring law in Canada. Ms. Bueckert was previously an associate with the Winnipeg law firm Pitblado LLP, practising privacy, labour, and employment law after receiving her call to the Manitoba Bar in 2004. While in private practice, she wrote numerous articles and gave presentations on privacy and employment law matters. Ms. Bueckert is an active member of the National Privacy and Access Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association, has been a member of the Section’s Executive since 2005, currently serves as its Secretary and will begin serving as Treasurer in September 2009. She joined its Workplace Privacy Committee in 2005 and is the Chair of the Section’s Communications Committee.

TECHNOLOGY FOR MONITORING employees changes constantly. Employers have reason to worry about potential liability for their employees’ actions. Recent cases and media reports show that employees do sometimes break the law or reveal confidential information over the Internet – whether inadvertently or deliberately.

Tracking employees’ activities can seem like an ideal solution to protect company interests and prevent lawsuits, along with avoiding damaging publicity and loss of goodwill. But monitoring may raise more issues than it resolves: Which methods are reasonable? What activities should be monitored? When can employ­ees assert privacy rights? Who will review the recorded data? Is the expense of monitoring employees cost-efficient?

The Law of Employee Monitoring in Canada is the first book to focus ex­clusively on this topic. Melanie Bueckert addresses concerns for both unionized and non-unionized workplaces in juris­dictions across Canada.

Tales from the Underworld and Other Stories
Roland Penner, C.M., Q.C., LL.B. and Norm Larsen, LL.B.

Roland Penner was Chairperson of Manitoba’s new legal aid system, former Attorney-General and Minister for Constitutional Affairs. He served as Dean at the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba 1989-1994, and for his accomplishments was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2000. He is also the author of an award-winning memoir, A Glowing Dream.

Norm Larsen practised law for 30 years in Winnipeg, starting with Zuken, Penner and Larsen, then with Legal Aid Manitoba as its first staff lawyer, and finally with Manitoba Justice as a legislative drafter. He retired in 2000.

Tales from the Underworld and Other Stories is a unique and fascinating collection of real-life stories and anecdotes – some funny, some tragic, some bizarre. Included are chapters about a legendary judge and criminal lawyer, the mysterious murder of a Winnipeg heiress in Florida, and a fatal duel in a blizzard in Northern Manitoba – as well as anecdotes on the often humourous, and sometimes testy relationship between judges and lawyers, and lawyers and their clients.

Wealth Planning Strategies for Canadians 2011
Christine Van Cauwenberghe is a tax and estate lawyer, with over fifteen years' experience in the tax and estate planning area. She is also a Certified Financial Planner as well as a Trust & Estate Practitioner (as certified by the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners). Christine is also a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation, and teaches part of the Corporate Tax Law course at the University of Manitoba. Christine is currently the Director of Tax & Estate Planning for one of the largest financial planning companies in Canada and previously practiced tax law with a large law firm. She regularly travels across Canada to meet with financial planners, their clients and external advisors (including other lawyers and accountants), and is also a frequent media consultant.

A uniquely valuable publication.

The first half of this work is organized around your client's life-event scenarios and systematically identifies the array of financial and estate planning considerations and strategies that ought to be considered. Life scenarios explored include: • Marriage • Divorce • Aged Parents• Re-marriage • Birth of a child • Acquisition of property
• Many more

The second half concisely sets out the legal/regulatory framework surrounding areas such as powers of attorney, family property, insurance, probate, trusts, etc., with jurisdictional differences succinctly summarized. It provides further detail to the life-scenario section of the book.

Updates to the 2011 Edition include:

•Rules for each of the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon
•More detail on a number of strategies, including establishing trusts for children, individual pension plans for business owners and reducing income in retirement in order to reduce social assistance clawbacks
•Legislative changes, including the introduction of personal directives in Nova Scotia, changes to the family law legislation in Ontario and the changes to the social assistance rules for disabled persons in Manitoba and New Brunswick