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SCC wrestles with scope of harm in online libel case

News | 11/30/2017 2:00 pm EST
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OTTAWA — Canada’s highest court should prepare for consequences wrought on Canadian media in other countries, if it determines that a libel case — based on a foreign news article read by Canadians over the internet — can be tried in an Ontario court, the Supreme Court heard Wednesday.

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