Supreme Court stands up for the Internet – thestar.com.
The issue before the court was whether links to content should be viewed as republication of that content for the purposes of defamation law.
The decision, essentially, was no. Just linking to content is not republishing content.
There’s more …. liability could still be raised as an issue if the link repeated the defamatory content, included an endorsement of it, or was a deliberate act to make the information more readily available.
The last one sounds a bit weak to me, all links are a deliberate act, and they always make the information more readily available, so I’m a bit puzzled by that one.