Some good news for a change
Terrible environmental news comes to my inbox every day. In honour of the week of Earth Day, let’s have a little good news instead. On the future of our desperately imperilled oceans: 1. In 2010, more than 800 of the world’s single-hulled oil tankers will finally be scrapped, 20 years after the Exxon Valdez catastrophe. ...
Continue reading the post titled Some good news for a changeIRCC approves new English language test for Canadian immigration
Skilled Workers who apply for immigration to Canada need to prove their language proficiency in any of two official languages of Canada (English or French) by providing a test result completed by a Language Testing agency approved by IRCC. A lot depends on the language test scores. The Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will...
Continue reading the post titled IRCC approves new English language test for Canadian immigrationLead, Children and Crime
This summer’s flurry of concern about lead in Ontario drinking water gets extra power from a growing body of research linking preschool blood lead and subsequent crime rates. Rick Nevin, for example, has tracked blood lead levels and violent crime over several decades in the USA, Britain, Canada, France, Australia, Finland, Italy, West Germany, and...
Continue reading the post titled Lead, Children and CrimeMunicipal water quality, raccoons and class actions
Ste-Adele faced a class-action after two dead raccoons and one bird were found in a 40-year-old, 125,000 L, chlorinated municipal reservoir.
Continue reading the post titled Municipal water quality, raccoons and class actionsDid anything happen at Durban?
I am profoundly depressed by the thicket of verbiage coming out of Durban about climate change. So countries promise to agree to promise to do what they promise (if everyone else does too). Great. The Kyoto Protocol was supposed to be legally binding too, but there have been no meaningful consequences for countries, such as...
Continue reading the post titled Did anything happen at Durban?Lawsuits for climate disasters?
Lawsuits against private firms for climate disaster compensation may not be winnable yet, but important groundwork is being laid. In groundbreaking peer-reviewed research, researcher Richard Heede of the Climate Accountability Institute offers the most complete picture to date of which institutions have extracted the fossil fuels that have been the root cause of global warming...
Continue reading the post titled Lawsuits for climate disasters?Will 2018 be the Year of the Single-Use Plastics Ban?
Bans on single-use plastics are on the rise. As media attention increasingly focuses on the topic, jurisdictions all over the world are introducing bans on single-use plastic products such as grocery bags, utensils, and cups. The bans respond to the growing, and increasingly recognized, problem of plastic pollution. It is estimated that approximately a trillion...
Continue reading the post titled Will 2018 be the Year of the Single-Use Plastics Ban?Nobel Prize Winner Recommends Tax on Carbon Emissions
Professor William D. Nordhaus, an economist from Yale who has dedicated more than forty years attempting to convince governments to address climate change through the imposition on a tax on carbon emissions was awarded the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Professor Nordhaus has been called “the father of climate-change economics” and developed models...
Continue reading the post titled Nobel Prize Winner Recommends Tax on Carbon EmissionsArctic Glacier Income Fund (Français)
En septembre 2008, Siskinds LLP a déposé un recours collectif de 165 millions $ contre Arctic Glacier Income Fund (« Arctic Glacier »), Arctic Glacier Inc, les fiduciaires, les administrateurs et les cadres supérieurs d’Arctic Glacier et d’Arctic Glacier Inc, en vertu de la nouvelle législation de protection des investisseurs de l’Ontario (partie XXIII.1 de...
Continue reading the post titled Arctic Glacier Income Fund (Français)Méthionine
Methionine Conspiracy to fix the prices of Methionine Dans ce recours collectif, il est allégué que certains fabricants ont comploté afin de fixer le prix de vente de la Méthionine au Canada et sur le plan mondial, depuis au moins 1985 jusqu’à 1998. La Méthionine est un acide aminé qui est utilisé essentiellement dans la...
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