31 Replies to “Old Man Down”

  1. Fill out an injury form and a two months later, be denied.
    Put in an appeal, six months later denied.
    Then go to a tribunal a couple years later and be denied and another tribunal that found errors that couldn’t be used as time window closed.
    As she physically degenerated.
    And was ripped off of 18 years severance.
    Not her fault.

    Yup, been there and done that 15 years ago for my deceased wife.

  2. I’ll tell you what will happen. The municipality will pass it off on the private property owner. For example, the municipality claims ownership of the sidewalk in front of the business, but will pass an ordinance making the snow removal on that stretch of sidewalk the responsibility of the nearest private property owner (this is what they did in NYC). The law precedence will eventually provide for a grace period between when the sidewalk becomes hazardous beyond an invitee basis, and the property owner will have to make the sidewalk safe before that time frame expires. Usually, it is a couple hours after a snowfall. Of course, that’s the beauty of vague law precedence. Plaintiff lawyers have a different idea of reasonable time frames on said claims.

    1. Here in Edmonton we property owners are given a fine if we do not clean snow and ice off the city-owned sidewalk in front of our properties within 48 hours. Can’t wait for all the lawsuits to start.

      2. Here in Calgary, it’ s 24 hours, I believe after the last flake falls. Problem being that they choose not to clear a bunch of sidewalks not near businesses or residences, including along major roads. Now, having the relatively-unused bike lanes cleared, well, you can count on that. Even before roads.

        Fucking Nenshi and his cabal.

  3. I think the Feds should pay each Canadian some money when the temperature goes below zero. They promised global warming and there isn’t, right?

    1. I like that idea.
      I think that if I get a ticket for going 65 in a 50 zone I should get rebated later for having to go 30 in a 50 zone while following some clueless moron who got their DL yesterday.

      1. Photo radar can have some additional use: idiots going 15 to 20 slower than the speed limit can get an “You are a hazard on the road” notice mailed to them.

  4. It wasn’t the sidewalk that was the problem (it sounds). City cleared spots for people to park, but creates a huge snow bank between parking and curb. Citizen injured themselves going over the snow bank.

    Solution? City won’t clear any snow, therefore they didn’t create the problem.

    1. I think it would have to be the sidewalk. Crossing the road other than at an intersection is J-walking.

    2. I reached the same conclusion. The key part of the article is

      But the Supreme Court found that decision too broad – while the decision to provide snow removal may be considered a general municipal policy, the court ruled the city’s choice of what to plough, and what not to plough, was not.

      “By ploughing the parking spaces on Baker Street, the City invited members of the public to use them to access businesses along the street,” the ruling states.

      “The plaintiff was attempting to do just that when she fell into a snowbank that had been created by the City during snow removal.”

      The sane response of the city is to not create the snowbanks and the easiest way to do that is to not plow the spaces. The travel lanes will probably still be plowed.

  8. This is a stupid ruling. As stupid as it can be. As stupid as the woke leftists.
    The ambulance chasing lawyers will love it.

  9. They will raise taxes to increase snow and ice removal on city property. Hiring dozens more workers and contractors and buying more machines.

    For private property, and the city property in front of a private dwelling, they’ll increase taxes to hire more snow inspectors and unionized city shovelers. Then they’ll increase penalties for non-compliance and we will require more bylaw officers to issue the tickets and administrators to manage the tickets.

    Then they’ll find way to declare salt and probably bare sand an environmental health hazard (but only on private property) adding penalties and taxes for mitigation.

    They still won’t plow my street but it’ll be my fault and I’ll continue to ruin a Swede’s future.

      1. Lol the lizard queen.

        He clearly left her his wheel of racism / climate change / in camera meeting (everyone’s a loser).

  11. One of the craziest successful suits was against a municipality that owned some undeveloped land which wasn’t fenced off to prevent access. A fifteen year old stole a quad and went joy-riding, found the empty property, and injured himself on it and claimed it was the fault of the municipality.

    1. About 35 years ago a similar event happened in Brampton, Ontario where a boy climbed a fenced-off hydro pylon and fell injuring himself. Lower courts dismissed the case as the law stated misadventure by choice. Later the case was reversed with the city loosing and being held responsible. Such are the times we live in where people feel sorry for the incompetent, stupid and suicidal.

  12. The provincial government needs to pass legislation covering this. Make it retroactive to boot. It’s winter. It’s Canada. Get over it.

  13. I like that idea.
    I think that if I get a ticket for going 65 in a 50 zone I should get rebated later for having to go 30 in a 50 zone while following some clueless moron who got their DL yesterday.

  14. Well, then, I am going to file for the 470 times that I have slipped and fell hard in many cities and towns all across this great white north.
    No more blaming it on the booze outside the bar at closing time for me, eh?

  15. oooh…I stubbed my toe on a curb…I deserve $350,000…that curb should have been sloped.

    There is no Personal Responsibility anymore – You Fuck up..?? and it’s the Fault of someone else.
    Time to leave this city…taxes are gonna get stupid.
    Especially with GONAD as mayor of Calgary…

  17. No one can afford snow removal insurance. Things are only get worse. Can we sue the insurance companies for being risk adverse?

  18. None of this would likely happen under our old Common Law. All this legal wizardry took off in ernest once the legal industry coopted Common Law for Statute Law for the legal industry’s personal benefit.

  19. Fort St. John expects me, as a homeowner, to keep the sidewalk along the street clear. OK, I do that. When I’m not there, I have a chap that I hired take care of it.

    Now here’s the twist: as soon as the sidewalk’s been cleared, guess who comes along with a public works machine and puts it all back? Yup, it plows all the snow it’s cleared off the rest of the sidewalk beside the street and leaves a nice layer of snow and ice. That snow and ice gets walked on and packed down. That packed snow and ice melts when there’s a chinook.

    I think you can figure out the rest of the story. My question is why do I bother with the town puts it back anyway?

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