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The Manitoba Bar Association CCCA Section was very active this year. Regular members of the Section include in‐house counsel employed by business enterprises, not for profit organizations, and municipal and government bodies, as well as associate members from the private bar.

During the 2012 ‐ 2013 term (September 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013) the Civil Litigation Section sponsored three professional development seminars. The first CPD seminar was held on December 13, 2012. Chris Wullum (Tapper Cuddy LLP) and Alfred Thiessen (Tapper Cuddy LLP) spoke about the recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Jones v. Tsige as well as a discussion of the Privacy Act.

The most significant thing to report is the extreme success we enjoyed by making a presentation at the Mid‐Winter Conference of 2013. We presented an Alternate Dispute Resolution Conference which comprised of Justice Doug Abra, Dave Hill and Candace Grammond. Before a large crowd we conducted the Judicially Assisted Dispute Resolution conference which lasted over two hours and seemingly was appreciated by everyone in attendance.

This report describes the activities of the Manitoba Business Law Section from September 2012 to June, 2013

We have been asked to provide an annual report in respect of the activities of the Manitoba Bar Association's (MBA) Technology and Intellectual Property Law Section for the 2012 ‐ 2013 (the Tech & IP Section) programming year.

This year, the Section executive (Co‐Chairs Melanie Bueckert and Darla Rettie, Vice‐Chair Cynthia Lau and Member‐at‐Large Catherine Skinner) planned and offered several sessions targeting various practice areas across the public and private bar. 

The International Law Section of the Manitoba Bar Association held two meetings in 2012‐2013.

 Sofia Mirza, became Chair of the Immigration Section on September 1, 2012.  Paul Hesse has moved into the Past Chair position.  

The big environmental news in Manitoba for this year (2012/2013) was the introduction by the Province of the new all encompassing environment strategy which was embodied in the policy paper called Tomorrow Now Manitoba’s Green Plan.

It was in many respects business as usual for our Section this year, carrying on our work to advance the public interest in access to information.  As usual, a lot of our work involved activities and initiatives with the National Section which hosts monthly conference calls and reports from those conference calls were circulated to Section members