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Family — Child support — Adjustment of child support — Shared parenting time — Income determination — Trial judge adjusted child support payable by the appellant for a specified period — Appellant argued trial judge failed to consider respondent’s income — Did the trial judge err in determining the respondent’s income as “zero or close to zero”? — Governing rule: Palpable and overriding error standard applied to factual findings in family law casesCivil procedure — Costs — Leave to appeal costs order — Divided success — Parties’ conduct — Trial judge ordered no costs due to divided success and parties’ conduct — Appellant sought leave to appeal costs order — Should leave to appeal be granted? — Governing rule: Costs awards are highly discretionary, particularly in family law cases, and require an error in principle to justify appellate intervention

Criminal procedure — Appeals — Drug-related offences — Entrapment — Appellant convicted of drug trafficking — Appeal focused on whether the trial judge erred in inferring reasonable grounds for suspicion from the Agreed Statement of Facts — Did the trial judge err in applying the standard for entrapment? — Trial judge’s inference upheld — Appeal dismissedEvidence — Agreed Statement of Facts — Inference of subjective belief — Officer’s reasonable grounds to suspect drug trafficking inferred from context — No explicit reference to officer’s subjective belief in the Agreed Statement of Facts — Did the trial judge err in making this inference? — Trial judge’s analysis found to be reasonableRights and freedoms — Entrapment — Standard of proof — Appellant argued trial judge applied a less onerous standard for entrapment — Whether the trial judge’s approach to entrapment was legally correct — Court found no error in the trial judge’s application of the standard — Appeal dismissedCriminal procedure — Sentencing — Leave to appeal sentence — Appellant’s notice of appeal included a request for leave to appeal sentence — Leave to appeal sentence not pursued at the hearing — Sentence appeal dismissed

Civil procedure — Abuse of process — Frivolous and vexatious claims — Appellant’s claim dismissed under Rule 2.1.01 of the Rules of Civil Procedure as frivolous, vexatious, and an abuse of process — Whether the motion judge erred in dismissing the claim — Standard of review for discretionary decisions — Rule 2.1.01, Rules of Civil Procedure, R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 194Torts — Conspiracy and defamation — Collateral attack — Appellant alleged conspiracy and defamation related to removal from condominium board and registration of lien — Motion judge found claims were a collateral attack on prior proceedings — Whether the motion judge erred in finding the claim constituted a collateral attack — Governing principles of collateral attack in civil litigationProperty — Statute of limitations — Claims of conspiracy and defamation — Appellant’s claims related to events in 2009 and 2013 — Motion judge held claims were statute-barred — Whether the claims were time-barred under applicable limitation periods — Limitations Act, 2002, S.O. 2002, c. 24, Sched. BTorts — Vexatious litigation — Repetitive claims — Appellant’s statement of claim found to be repetitive and 81 pages in length — Whether the motion judge erred in characterizing the claim as vexatious — Hallmarks of vexatious proceedings in civil litigation