International Law

Kelowna Listeria Victim Not Related To Maple Leaf Strain
The Okanagan region of southeast British Columbia is a long way from the Maple Leaf Foods ready-to-eat meat processing plant outside Toronto. Nevertheless, an elderly Okanagan woman's death in September was blamed on the national outbreak of listeria that was blamed on Maple Leaf...

Canada court approves settlement in bacteria contamination class action suit
[JURIST] The Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench on Tuesday approved a settlement agreement between Canadian meatpacker Maple Leaf Foods and class action plaintiffs who brought suit against the company in connection with sales of meat tainted with listeria monocytogenes...

Maple Leaf settles listeria lawsuits for $27,000,000
pimg width="104" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="99" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.marlerblog.com/uploads/image/images(37).jpg" /According to the a href="http://www.thestar.com/business/article/555873"Toronto Star/a, Maple Leaf Foods has agreed to pay as much as $27 million to victims of last summer's listeria outbreak...

Maple Leaf Might Be Responsible For Ongoing Listeria Outbreak
The Public Health Agency of Canada is now investigating whether an outbreak of listeriosis since June 17 that has made 17 people ill and killed one, mostly in the Ontario area, can be blamed on Maple Leaf Foods Inc...

Maple Leaf Foods: A Case Study in the Persistence of Memory
Maple Leaf Foods is Canada's largest food processor, and as the name implies, it traces its history a long way with our neighbor to the north.  It has always prided itself on its food safety procedures...

Jay Strosberg: The Attorney Behind the Ticketmaster Lawsuit
Windsor, ON: Back in the day, before the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team moved to the Air Canada Centre, shady characters would stand outside the old Maple Leaf Gardens on game night, puffs of frosty breath floating in the chilly air as they barked, "Golds, Golds, Blues, Blues" referring to the color-price coded seats inside the historic arena.

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Pulls Weiners Due to Listeria Concerns