Can an employee’s involvement in the Freedom Convoy protests result in their termination of employment?
As we all know, life’s events are constantly being photographed, posted, tweeted, and shared. It seems that keeping our private lives private, has become less and less of a reality as the years go by. As a result, keeping a separation between employees “on-duty conduct” and “off-duty conduct” has been more difficult to do as...
Continue reading the post titled Can an employee’s involvement in the Freedom Convoy protests result in their termination of employment?Contaminated soil from home heating fuel oil
Many older homes that were once heated with oil, or still are, had big tanks by the side of the house, buried underground or in the basement. These tanks held enough oil to keep families warm throughout the winter. But whether an old tank is still there, or was removed long ago, escaped home heating...
Continue reading the post titled Contaminated soil from home heating fuel oilCanada’s Anti-Spam Laws Enhance Consumer Protection and Provide Compensation for Improper Electronic Activities
(Note: There have been changes to the legislature since this article was published. Please go here for an update.) The laws of Canada protect consumers and computer users against improper commercial electronic activities. If you are a Canadian consumer who uses a computer or goes on the internet to research and purchase consumer goods or...
Continue reading the post titled Canada’s Anti-Spam Laws Enhance Consumer Protection and Provide Compensation for Improper Electronic ActivitiesThe Role of Class Actions in Price-Fixing Enforcement
Introduction I’ve spent my legal career acting for plaintiffs in price-fixing class actions, a somewhat obscure niche which, until recently, simultaneously confounded and fascinated most people I met. Last fall, the Canadian Competition Bureau raided the offices of several major grocery chains, investigating a fourteen-year price-fixing conspiracy affecting bread prices. This aroused the public’s interest...
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Continue reading the post titled Environment Law Firm of the Year, CanadaBladder drug Elmiron – linked to vision loss, macular degeneration – still among top non-patented drugs in Canada per 2023 report
Elmiron, a medication prescribed for bladder issues that has been linked to a unique form of macular degeneration causing vision loss, continues to rank among the top publicly funded non-patented drugs in Canada, according to a government report on public drug plan expenditures published earlier this year. The latest edition of Canada’s “Annual Public Drug...
Continue reading the post titled Bladder drug Elmiron – linked to vision loss, macular degeneration – still among top non-patented drugs in Canada per 2023 reportSpring Roundup of citizen scientists
One way to make the impact of climate change more real is to participate in gathering scientific data about it. Everyone (including children) can participate in NatureWatch, a series of volunteer monitoring programs sponsored by the Environment Canada, Nature Canada, the Trillium Foundation, Ontario Parks, among others. By providing data that fills geographical gaps in...
Continue reading the post titled Spring Roundup of citizen scientistsCoal phase out when?
Ontario is having a hard time deciding which it wants more: clean power, or cheap power? As required by Ontario regulations, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) will shut down all four of their remaining coal-fired thermal stations – Atikokan, Lambton, Nanticoke and Thunder Bay – by December 31, 2014.[i],[ii] But the recession cut demand for electricity...
Continue reading the post titled Coal phase out when?Pharmaceuticals, drinking water, and liability
The better our detection ability becomes, the more things we find in the water. One important group of those things is pharmaceuticals and their metabolites. Pharmaceuticals are specifically designed to affect the bodies, brains and behaviour of humans and other animals, at comparatively low concentrations. Some pharmaceuticals have synergistic effects with other pharmaceuticals, or with...
Continue reading the post titled Pharmaceuticals, drinking water, and liabilityGHG reductions: are we getting better?
The federal government has quietly admitted that its greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reduction efforts are having little effect. The Harper Conservatives won’t comply with the action plan portion of the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act, 2007 , but they do file the reports to Parliament that the KPIA requires. As a result, they have been forced...
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