New Code of Practice for Workplace Harassment Provisions of OHSA
The Ontario Ministry of Labour has now issued a Code of Practice containing direction with respect to its expectations for the implementation of Bill 132, which amends the workplace harassment provisions of the Occupational Health & Safety Act (“OHSA”). However, a few remaining “grey ar…
View the post titled New Code of Practice for Workplace Harassment Provisions of OHSAAge Discrimination
As someone currently channelling Helen Mirren as a role model, the thought of age discrimination strikes a little too close to home. Kudos to the inimitable Dick Van Dyke for his plain speaking about this particular elephant in the room.
View the post titled Age DiscriminationCivil Motions in the Superior Court of Justice: A Practical Guide
Since publication, this information has changed. View an updated version, published on July 16, 2024, here: Civil Motions in the Superior Court of Justice: A Practical Guide for Junior Lawyers. A motion is a formal request to the Court for an Order. Some motions will be contested, some will …
View the post titled Civil Motions in the Superior Court of Justice: A Practical GuideThe tricky business of limitations and contaminated land claims
In May of 2016, the Superior Court of Justice delivered reasons in Valco Instruments Canada v. Imperial Oil, dismissing in part a defendant’s summary judgment motion related to a contaminated land claim. The court concluded that the limitation period for a negligence claim had expired by the…
View the post titled The tricky business of limitations and contaminated land claimsUP, UP, AND AWAY: What’s new with Notice periods?
Unfortunately for employers, there is a fair bit new with notice periods and not in a welcome direction. While 24 months has typically been viewed as the upper end of reasonable notice periods, there have been a number of decisions recently which have challenged that assumption. In Markoulak…
View the post titled UP, UP, AND AWAY: What’s new with Notice periods?Federal environmental law reform picks up steam
The government recently announced the members it has appointed to the Review of the Environmental Assessment Process Expert Panel (the “EA Panel”), created to examine how environmental federal environmental assessments are conducted for large-scale resource projects. The federal government h…
View the post titled Federal environmental law reform picks up steamOntario Court of Appeal Helps Ensure Conspirators are Held Accountable for their Wrongdoing
Nearly every Canadian consumer has purchased something that contains a price-fixed component. Price-fixing occurs in many industries – from components of consumer electronics to chemicals to auto parts to chocolate. Price-fixing occurs where competing companies agree to increase prices, redu…
View the post titled Ontario Court of Appeal Helps Ensure Conspirators are Held Accountable for their WrongdoingOntario Courts Ensure Access to Justice for Victims of Illegal Cartels
Four recent decisions from the Ontario courts affirm the importance of preserving remedies for plaintiffs impacted by unlawful conspiracies. The decisions relate to four separate price-fixing conspiracies involving LCD panels (used in televisions, computer monitors and notebook computers), l…
View the post titled Ontario Courts Ensure Access to Justice for Victims of Illegal CartelsMaryland first U.S. state to regulate neonicotinoids
Since the European Union voted to suspend the use of three neonicotinoid insecticides in 2013, there has been significant interest in Canada and the United States to regulate the use of these pesticides. Also known as neonics, these pesticides are believed to be significantly contributing to…
View the post titled Maryland first U.S. state to regulate neonicotinoidsThe unlikely intersection of nuclear fallout and green energy
Will the world’s largest atomic fallout exclusion zone one day host the world’s largest solar farm? The infamous nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, near Pripyat in Soviet Ukraine, occurred 30 years ago. A fire and series of explosions in one of the plant’s reactors caused…
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