Municipal orders under section 100.1 of the EPA
The seemingly never-ending litigation related to a spill of furnace oil fuel in the City of Kawartha Lakes is inching closer to resolution. In Technical Standards and Safety Authority v Kawartha Lakes, 2016 CanLII 41685 (ON ERT) the Environmental Review Tribunal (the “Tribunal”) tackled the …
Continue reading the post titled Municipal orders under section 100.1 of the EPANew Regulation Outlines Process for Implementing Broader Public Sector Executive Compensation Frameworks
Currently, the Broader Public Sector Accountability Act, 2010 (“BPSAA”) imposes what amounts to a compensation freeze on “designated executives” within a relatively small set of Broader Public Sector (“BPS”) organizations such as hospitals, school boards, universities and colleges. The Broad…
Continue reading the post titled New Regulation Outlines Process for Implementing Broader Public Sector Executive Compensation FrameworksTeck Metals to pay $8.25 million to Coleville Tribe
On August 12, 2016, Justice Suko of the U.S. District Court (Eastern District of Washington) ruled that Teck Cominco Metals, Ltd., a Canadian company, was liable to the Confederated Tribes of the Coleville Reservation for “response costs” of $8.25 million, plus prejudgment interest, under th…
Continue reading the post titled Teck Metals to pay $8.25 million to Coleville TribeIs there a “right to light?”
In urban environments, land and resources are finite and are, as a result, often faced with conflicts over the appropriate development and use of land. Such conflicts are particularly bitter when they concern proposed condominium development and “big box” store developments in the down…
Continue reading the post titled Is there a “right to light?”New Code of Practice for Workplace Harassment Provisions of OHSA
The Ontario Ministry of Labour has now issued a Code of Practice containing direction with respect to its expectations for the implementation of Bill 132, which amends the workplace harassment provisions of the Occupational Health & Safety Act (“OHSA”). However, a few remaining “grey ar…
Continue reading the post titled New Code of Practice for Workplace Harassment Provisions of OHSAAge Discrimination
As someone currently channelling Helen Mirren as a role model, the thought of age discrimination strikes a little too close to home. Kudos to the inimitable Dick Van Dyke for his plain speaking about this particular elephant in the room.
Continue reading the post titled Age DiscriminationThe tricky business of limitations and contaminated land claims
In May of 2016, the Superior Court of Justice delivered reasons in Valco Instruments Canada v. Imperial Oil, dismissing in part a defendant’s summary judgment motion related to a contaminated land claim. The court concluded that the limitation period for a negligence claim had expired by the…
Continue reading the post titled The tricky business of limitations and contaminated land claimsUP, UP, AND AWAY: What’s new with Notice periods?
Unfortunately for employers, there is a fair bit new with notice periods and not in a welcome direction. While 24 months has typically been viewed as the upper end of reasonable notice periods, there have been a number of decisions recently which have challenged that assumption. In Markoulak…
Continue reading the post titled UP, UP, AND AWAY: What’s new with Notice periods?Federal environmental law reform picks up steam
The government recently announced the members it has appointed to the Review of the Environmental Assessment Process Expert Panel (the “EA Panel”), created to examine how environmental federal environmental assessments are conducted for large-scale resource projects. The federal government h…
Continue reading the post titled Federal environmental law reform picks up steamMaryland first U.S. state to regulate neonicotinoids
Since the European Union voted to suspend the use of three neonicotinoid insecticides in 2013, there has been significant interest in Canada and the United States to regulate the use of these pesticides. Also known as neonics, these pesticides are believed to be significantly contributing to…
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