Mind the Gap! – WSIB Coverage for Executives
There are lots of employers in Ontario who have decided to exclude their executives from WSIB coveragein order to reduce those expensive premiums. The cost-savings can be significant but it is vital to ensure that you have the correct insurance coverage in place to pick up the slack. A recent decision of the Superior Court of Justice...
Continue reading the post titled Mind the Gap! – WSIB Coverage for ExecutivesSLAPP Panel recommends anti-SLAPP law
The Ministry of the Attorney General has published the report of the Anti-SLAPP Advisory Panel. The report is on the Ministry’s web site at: http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/anti_slapp/anti_slapp_final_report_en.pdf. The panel adopted most of the Ontario Bar Association recommendations that I helped to develop and present this summer. Here are the Panel’s conclusions:
Continue reading the post titled SLAPP Panel recommends anti-SLAPP lawWho pays for basement flooding?
It will likely be increasingly difficult for home and business owners to find anyone willing to pay for basement flooding. According to the insurers’ Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, “basement flooding is one of the biggest challenges facing homeowners, municipal governments and personal property insurers across the country.” Municipalities across Canada have substantial protection against civil...
Continue reading the post titled Who pays for basement flooding?Congratulations to Peter Kent
We want to send our congratulations, best wishes and some sympathy to the Hon. Peter Kent, Canada’s new Minister of the Environment. We do agree with Jeffrey Simpson: Minister Kent has an extremely difficult job, given his leader’s staunch opposition to effective action on the major environmental issues of our day. Perhaps it is just...
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Who is the environmental law firm of the year? There seem to be a lot of rating services competing to decide. This week, we have been honoured as an (or the?) “Environmental Law Firm of the Year” for Canada by two of them: Corporate INTL Magazine, and DealMakers Monthly. We thought you would like to...
Continue reading the post titled Environmental Law Firm of the YearEnd of slow death by rubber duck?
In 2009, we blogged about plastics that contain (and release) phthalates, plasticizers used in the manufacture of soft vinyl used in many products (https://www.siskinds.com/slow-death-by-rubber-duck/). New Phthalates Regulations under the Hazardous Products Act (HPA) were registered on December 9 2010, and will come into force on June 9, 2011. They should help reduce phthalate exposure for...
Continue reading the post titled End of slow death by rubber duck?Innovative thinking about water?
Diane Cunningham, director of the Lawrence National Centre for Policy and Management at the Richard Ivey School of Business organized another great forum last month on innovation for Canadian environmental issues. This year’s forum was on Water Innovation; the keynote address and panelist presentations are posted at http://www.ivey.uwo.ca/lawrencecentre/water-innovation-2011/default.htm. This is exactly the sort of thing that...
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Dear Dianne and Jackie: For the first time, the LexisNexis Environmental Law & Climate Change Community is honoring a select group of blogs that set the online standard for our practice area. I’m pleased to notify you that Environmental Law and Litigation blog is one of the nominated candidates for the LexisNexis Top 50 Environmental Law &...
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A reader asks: are the federal Renewable Fuels Regulations in force?
Continue reading the post titled A reader asks about Renewable FuelsNow 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 case law from across the country. The CanLII database...
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