Ottawa lawyers file class-action against Google over publication bans

Two Ottawa lawyers have filed a proposed $80-million class-action lawsuit, alleging that Google’s search engine allows Internet users to discover names that are supposed to be shielded by court-ordered publication bans.
The proposed lawsuit follows an investigation by this newspaper last year. That review found that plugging the publication-banned name of a young offender or crime victim into the web giant’s search engine would sometimes produce results pointing to media co