Can municipalities require climate warning labels on gasoline?
Here’s a great new idea for municipal action on climate change: warning labels! Our Horizon1 is a non-profit organization with a mandate to empower people and communities to take action on climate change. Their new campaign aims to get municipalities to use their existing powers in new ways …
View the post titled Can municipalities require climate warning labels on gasoline?Siskinds Lawyers Named “Best Lawyers in Canada”
Congratulations to James Caskey QC, Scott Ritchie QC, Henry Berg, Jim Mays, Jim Virtue, and André Michael on being named to this year’s edition of Best Lawyers In Canada by Best Lawyers International. Special congratulations to Henry Berg for also being named Lawyer of the Year for Corporate…
View the post titled Siskinds Lawyers Named “Best Lawyers in Canada”Tiny amount of hazardous material can make a whole waste load “hazardous”
A recent court decision has dramatically widened Ontario’s rules on what constitutes “hazardous waste”. Now, any hotspot can be enough to make an entire load “hazardous waste”. This is a particular risk for those handling spill cleanup materials and other small …
View the post titled Tiny amount of hazardous material can make a whole waste load “hazardous”Forest Ethics brings first legal challenge to new pipeline participation rules
Can people who live near the Enbridge pipeline 9 effectively oppose the project?
View the post titled Forest Ethics brings first legal challenge to new pipeline participation rulesAll That e-Glitters: Bitcoins and Securities Regulation
What are Bitcoins and what laws apply to them? In a new post, Siskinds class action lawyer Daniel Bach explains what Bitcoins are and looks at a recent US court decision considering whether or not they should be governed by securities laws. The age-old question: “if a new security purports t…
View the post titled All That e-Glitters: Bitcoins and Securities RegulationEconomic impact of Renewable Energy Initiatives
A new Sustainable Energy Initiative paper from York’s Faculty of Environmental Studies has been released, on the economic impact of renewable energy initiatives like the Green Energy Act. The paper is available here. It concludes: “the province was very late in establishing a coh…
View the post titled Economic impact of Renewable Energy InitiativesYour Uninsurable Home? What is climate change’s wild weather doing to insurance?
Across Canada, this year has brought severe storms, floods, wildfires and other catastrophic weather. As people in Calgary, Toronto and other hard hit areas try to rebuild their lives, most of them expect that someone should help them pay for the damage. Oil-rich Alberta has promised $1 bill…
View the post titled Your Uninsurable Home? What is climate change’s wild weather doing to insurance?$25,000 fine for dumping auto fluff
Kimco Steel Sales Limited, which operates a Kingston waste transfer site, was fined $25,000 plus a victim fine surcharge of $6,250 for depositing auto fluff on an illegal dump site. Auto fluff is a non-hazardous waste left from shredding a vehicle after the metal has been salvaged for recycl…
View the post titled $25,000 fine for dumping auto fluffSiskinds and The London Hunt Club Serve up Aces
Siskinds was proud to be a sponsor of this year’s Fowler Kennedy Tennis Classic held at the London Hunt Club. This great event raises funds each year to help support the Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic and has raised over $150,000 since it played its first set. Congratulations to everyo…
View the post titled Siskinds and The London Hunt Club Serve up AcesFeds must disclose: will they save the endangered sage grouse?
As we wrote earlier, sage grouse are on the brink of extinction in Canada due to the destruction of their habitat, largely related to oil and gas development. The federal Minister of the Environment has refused to disclose if they will do anything about it. Last week’s Federal Court of Appea…
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