Business Essentials – Episode 1: Challenges related to COVID-19 facing employers now and in the future
In Business Essentials, a limited-run podcast series, Chris Sinal of Siskindsβ Labour & Employment Group sits down with some of the firmβs business lawyers to discuss current issues and challenges facing our clients as they adapt to the new business environment resulting from COVID-19. Be sure to like and subscribe to the podcast by searching...
Continue reading the post titled Business Essentials – Episode 1: Challenges related to COVID-19 facing employers now and in the futureCoronavirus β Employersβ frequently asked questions
With health experts proclaiming that the Wuhan Novel Coronavirus (i.e., the βCoronavirusβ) is likely to become a pandemic, Canadian employers should prepare for the worst and plan how to respond to various employment-related issues that could arise if the virus continues to spread. With that in mind, below are general answers to some of the...
Continue reading the post titled Coronavirus β Employersβ frequently asked questionsEstablishing a medicine professional corporation: Who is permitted to own shares?
The Regulated Health Professions Act allows medical professionals to establish a corporation for the purpose of practicing medicine. Creating a Medicine Professional Corporation (MPC) may be financially beneficial for physicians since the tax rate of the corporation is much lower compared to the personal tax rate of the individual physician. There are many other benefits...
Continue reading the post titled Establishing a medicine professional corporation: Who is permitted to own shares?Financial restatements and leave under part XXIII.1 of the Securities Act in Cappelli v Nobilis Health Corp.: A step in the wrong direction
In Cappelli v Nobilis Health Corp.[1] (βCappelliβ), Justice Perell, for purposes of a leave motion under Part XXIII.1 of Ontarioβs Securities Act (βOSAβ), considered the evidentiary value of an issuerβs public disclosure that it was restating previous financials and had control weaknesses. His Honour gave less weight to the restatement and admission of control weaknesses...
Continue reading the post titled Financial restatements and leave under part XXIII.1 of the Securities Act in Cappelli v Nobilis Health Corp.: A step in the wrong directionRisky business: Alleging cause if you donβt have it
So you have a problem employee that you want to terminate.Β Your employment lawyer reminds you that you would owe nothing to the employee in a βfor causeβ termination, but that itβs unlikely that you could prove cause in the circumstances.Β She then goes on to assess your common law reasonable notice obligation in a βwithout causeβ...
Continue reading the post titled Risky business: Alleging cause if you donβt have itMisrepresentation in Accredited Investor Prospectus Exempt Offerings in Ontario
Part I – Mind the Angle Shooters The more dangerous malefactors are the men in high places who take a good property, overcapitalize it, appraise its value at many times what it is worth, use artful publicity and market methods to beguile the public into believing the stock is worth par or more, and foist...
Continue reading the post titled Misrepresentation in Accredited Investor Prospectus Exempt Offerings in OntarioFirst Environmental Penalty
Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment has issued its first-ever environmental penalty under its so-called βyou-spill, you-payβ legislation. Director Bill Bardswick ordered CGC Inc. of Hagersville to pay the province $9,000, for allowing contaminated runoff from its gypsum processing plant to enter a tributary of the Grand River on September 26, 2007. This is a purely...
Continue reading the post titled First Environmental PenaltyAffordable Housing and the Planning Act Authority for Parkland Dedication and Cash-in-Lieu
βYou can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. βArtists conceptionsβ and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood parks or parks malls, and verbal rationalizations can conjure up users who ought to appreciate them, but in real life only diverse surroundings have the practical power of inducing a...
Continue reading the post titled Affordable Housing and the Planning Act Authority for Parkland Dedication and Cash-in-LieuGood news: updated Ontario noise guideline
After three years of consideration, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment has adopted a more up-to-date guideline for assessing noise impacts. Β βEnvironmental Noise Guideline Stationary and Transportation Sources β Approval and Planning, Publication NPC-300βΒ is now in force. See NPC 300Β or go to the Environmental Registry website at www.ebr.gov.on.ca and enter Registry Number 011-0597
Continue reading the post titled Good news: updated Ontario noise guidelineScience, proof and causation: when courts and scientists disagree
Bad science should be thrown out of court. When alleged scientific data fails to meet relevant, objective quality standards specifically developed for that kind of data, no one knows whether the claimed result is either reliable or correct. It is fundamentally unfair to punish anyone based on such data.
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