Business Essentials – Episode 5: Corporate law and conducting business during the pandemic
In Siskinds’ Business Essentials, a limited-run podcast series, Chris Sinal of Siskinds’ labour & employment group sits down with some of the firm’s 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...
Continue reading the post titled Business Essentials – Episode 5: Corporate law and conducting business during the pandemicBusiness Essentials – Episode 6: Professional practice law and running a practice virtually
In Siskinds’ Business Essentials, a limited-run podcast series, Chris Sinal of Siskinds’ Labour & Employment group sits down with some of the firm’s business lawyers to discuss current issues and challenges facing our clients as they adapt to the new business environment resulting from COVID-19. Like and subscribe to the podcast by searching “Siskinds Business...
Continue reading the post titled Business Essentials – Episode 6: Professional practice law and running a practice virtuallyBusiness Essentials – Episode 7: How intellectual property law affects your business
In Siskinds’ Business Essentials, a limited-run podcast series, Chris Sinal of Siskinds’ Labour & Employment group sits down with some of the firm’s business lawyers to discuss current issues and challenges facing our clients as they adapt to the new business environment resulting from COVID-19. Like and subscribe to the podcast by searching “Siskinds Business...
Continue reading the post titled Business Essentials – Episode 7: How intellectual property law affects your businessVirtual hearing to save the climate
On July 12, 2020 a special virtual hearing was held to argue whether the case brought by seven young people1 against the Ontario government alleging that the watered down provincial climate targets in 2018 violated the Charter rights to life, liberty and security of the person should be dismissed. The case challenges the decision of...
Continue reading the post titled Virtual hearing to save the climateLargest foodborne illness outbreak in years linked to onions contaminated with Salmonella
Hundreds of confirmed cases of Salmonella in Canada are linked to a nationwide outbreak arising from contaminated onions. It is the largest single outbreak of foodborne illness in Canada since 2014. Symptoms of Salmonella infection include: Nausea; vomiting; diarrhea; abdominal pain; headache; dizziness; myalgia; and low-grade fever. Symptoms typically develop within 6 to 72 hours after...
Continue reading the post titled Largest foodborne illness outbreak in years linked to onions contaminated with Salmonella10-day written notice for snow and ice injury claims
The year 2020 brought many changes. This blog post discusses another change from 2020 that came to stay: the Ontario Occupiers’ Liability Act (“OLA”) now requires 60-day written notice for incidents involving snow or ice. On December 8, 2020, Bill 118 received Royal Assent and came into force on January 29, 2021. The Bill introduced...
Continue reading the post titled 10-day written notice for snow and ice injury claimsMy data was lost! Can I be compensated?
Data breaches are among the most common areas of subject matter for Canadian class actions in 2021. There are currently more than 80 class actions involving privacy breaches in progress across the country.1 Siskinds itself represents class members in several prominent ongoing privacy breach class actions, including ones involving Desjardins, Facebook, and Marriott, and recently...
Continue reading the post titled My data was lost! Can I be compensated?Attendant care benefits and the trivialization of women’s work
Caregiving is often performed by women and is considered women’s work. It is also undervalued and unpaid. The way automobile insurers determine how care providers are (or are not) paid illustrates and perpetuates this problem. Attendant care benefits may be available to those who have sustained injuries in a car accident, under the Statutory Accident...
Continue reading the post titled Attendant care benefits and the trivialization of women’s workHarper promises more environmental enforcement
Prime Minister Harper promised today a substantial increase in federal environmental enforcement. Some of the proposed changes would be significant improvements.
Continue reading the post titled Harper promises more environmental enforcementKyoto Protocol Implementation Act
What does this mean for the future of climate change litigation in Canada? Not much.
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