2016 December 20

Rainy River (Town) v. Olsen, 2016 ONSC 800

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed an application by the plaintiff for an interlocutory (pre-trial) injunction to prohibit the defendant from posting on the internet any defamatory information about the plaintiff mayor or other council members, and from sending any defamatory emails to the mayor or other members of town council. “The heart of the complaint against [the defendant] is that he has directed defamatory and abusive emails to the town and others, generally about the mayor and the town’s administration.” [Note: the Court applied the ordinary test for granting an injunction in civil cases rather than the more stringent test applied by most courts as defined in Canadian Liberty Net.]