Federal contaminated sites
In the 2012 Spring Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, the Commissioner focuses on the relationship between economic growth and environmental protection, the continuing debate often misdescribed as “jobs versus the environment.” He again concludes that…
View the post titled Federal contaminated sitesNow You Too Can Be An Employment Lawyer!
Or maybe not. But there is a new resource that is freely available to anyone with access to the internet which provides interesting reading for anyone with an interest in employment law. CanLII (it’s short for the “Canadian Legal Information Institute”) maintains a searchable database of ca…
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Ontario’s Minister of the Environment says that it is his second highest priority to increase waste diversion from landfill. Can he do it? Yesterday, Dianne gave a well-received keynote address to the Municipal Waste Association on Obstacles to Waste Diversion.
View the post titled Obstacles to waste diversionNew rules on soil movement
Ontario has struggled for many years to provide clear, consistent, effective rules to govern the huge amount of soil that contractors move from place to place. Is it a product? a waste? Where can it go? How clean is clean? There is so much confusion that municipalities, such as Clarington, a…
View the post titled New rules on soil movementComments on the Mining Act changes
The Ontario Bar Association has submitted extensive comments on the proposed changes to the Mining Act. The OBA calls on the province to provide greater clarity on who must do what, especially in the area of aboriginal consultation: “Clarifying the requirements for proponents, the role…
View the post titled Comments on the Mining Act changesLow Carbon Policies
Interested in some really good thinking on low carbon policies, that might help lead to the future that Amory Lovins describes? Katie Sullivan of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) offers :
View the post titled Low Carbon PoliciesWe are pleased to announce that six members of Siskinds LLP have been chosen directly by their peers to be published in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2012 as leading practitioners.
Included in this honorable list are James Caskey, Scott Ritchie, Andre Michael, Christopher White and Charles Wright. For further information, please visit http://www.lexpert.ca/.
View the post titled We are pleased to announce that six members of Siskinds LLP have been chosen directly by their peers to be published in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2012 as leading practitioners.Approvals reform making progress
What are Ontario’s biggest obstacles to job creation? According to employers contacting the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, the Ministry of the Environment is usually on their top 5 list. And approvals problems (including delay) are high among them. Approvals reform i…
View the post titled Approvals reform making progressThe Latest on Overtime Class Actions
There has been lots of press coverage respecting a number of class actions by employees who claim that they have been improperly denied overtime pay. The reality is that actions by individual employees are unlikely to be commenced as the legal fees relative to the potential recovery make su…
View the post titled The Latest on Overtime Class ActionsBlackoutSpeakout: It worked for Wikipedia
BlackoutSpeakout: Canadian environmental organizations are using Wikipedia’s protest tactic of darkening their websites on June 4 to protest federal government 2012 Budget plans to slash environmental protection and environmental protest, anything that stands in the way of the oil sand…
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