Are employees βoff-rampingβ from your organization?
When employees experience personal trauma, challenging transitions in the workplace, difficult relationships with managers, etc., some of them will choose to βoff-ramp,β a term referring to those who voluntarily resign or reduce their working hours. Many employers will be familiar with an employee deciding not to return to work from a pregnancy/parental leave. However, off-ramping...
Continue reading the post titled Are employees βoff-rampingβ from your organization?Ministry of Education revises its Statement of Environmental Values
Ontario’s Ministry of Education has a revised Statement of Environmental Values under the Environmental Bill of Rights.
Continue reading the post titled Ministry of Education revises its Statement of Environmental ValuesKeep green energy, oppose Bill 39
Petition Alert: Oppose Bill 39 and speak out in support of renewable energy in Ontario! Here is an important notice, from the Toronto Renewable Energy CooperativeΒ and Solarshare, about how to support renewable energy. The Conservative Party has introduced a Bill to revoke the Green Energy Act and the FIT Program. It was tabled on March...
Continue reading the post titled Keep green energy, oppose Bill 39Approvals Reform, phase 2
The Ministry of the Environment is moving into the second phase of its long-awaited comprehensive approval reforms. The first part of the new approvals framework became operational on October 31, 2011.Two more parts of this initiative are now open for public consultation. The first is
Continue reading the post titled Approvals Reform, phase 2Water Opportunities and Conservation Act?
Bill 72, the Water Opportunities and Water Conservation Act, 2010, passed second reading in the Ontario Legislature on September 23. ItΒ was referred to the Β Standing Committee on General Government, which will hold public hearings in Toronto on October 18 and 20. Important dates:
Continue reading the post titled Water Opportunities and Conservation Act?Nuclear Liability cap in Canada
As Japan battles to prevent nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima, with the assistance of the International Atomic Energy Β Agency, anxious eyes are turning to nuclear safety in other countries. Canadian reactors boast a relatively safe design, but still require cooling, and are therefore vulnerable to a major earthquake. Β If a nuclear incident happened here, who would...
Continue reading the post titled Nuclear Liability cap in CanadaReal protection of watersheds
In the ongoing fallout of Ontarioβs unfortunate response to the Walkerton water disaster, the objective of Ontario's source protection plans will be too narrow: protecting the immediate vicinity of sources of drinking water. Watersheds have many βfunctionsβ other than providing drinking water, and they cannot be successfully managed with blinders on.
Continue reading the post titled Real protection of watershedsAfter Copenhagen
The biggest consequence of Copenhagen for Canada will probably be the erosion of our national reputation - instead of being nice people, we are now the Fossil of the Year, ragging on about "Climategate" when the rest of the world has moved on.
Continue reading the post titled After CopenhagenDownloading liability on municipalities
Senior governments seem to have no shame about downloading enormous, Β undisclosed environmental liabilities on municipalities. In an English case, Corby Group Litigation v. Corby District Council, the Corby Borough Council (CBC) has been held liable for allowing residents to become exposed to toxic substances during its 1980s cleanup of an old British Steel works. British...
Continue reading the post titled Downloading liability on municipalitiesTaking toxics home
Six young children picked up dangerous levels of lead in their family car, presumably due to family members with occupational exposure to lead.
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