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Following are the summaries for this week’s civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario.

In Rainy River (Town) v. Olsen, the mayor of the town was unsuccessful, both in the court below and in the Court of Appeal, in getting an injunction against the respondent preventing him from defaming and