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Actos

Actos (pioglitazone hydrochloride) is an oral anti-diabetic drug manufactured by Takeda and prescribed to decrease blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes. A Canada-wide settlement has been reached in five proposed class actions relating to the prescription drugs ACTOSยฎ, APO-Pioglitazone and SANDOZ-Pioglitazone. Hearings were held in the supervising Courts in Quรฉbec and Ontario...

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Avandia

A Canada-wide settlement was reached and approved on June 13, 2019 by the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. The Claims Deadline for filing a claim under the settlement was on July 15, 2020. The settlement has now concluded and no further claims are being accepted. Avandia, a drug used to treat diabetes, is associated with...

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Shoppers Drug Mart Inc.

Siskinds LLP and Spiteri & Ursulak LLP have filed a proposed national class action against Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. and Shoppers Drug Mart (London) Limited (โ€œShoppersโ€). The proposed class action alleges that Shoppers misclassified its former Associates as independent contractors and terminated their employment without providing them with reasonable notice or pay in lieu thereof....

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Precious metals manipulation

Siskinds Desmeules, and Sotos LLP are class counsel in a class action against financial institutions (the โ€œDefendantsโ€) who conspired to fix, raise, decrease, maintain, stabilize, control or enhance unreasonably the price of precious metals and precious metals market related investment instruments, including metal such as gold, silver, platinum and palladium. On January 8, 2021, Siskinds...

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SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. II (2019)

On February 6, 2019, Siskinds LLP and Siskinds, Desmeules Avocats s.e.n.c.r.l., filed a proposed securities class action in Quรฉbec against SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. (โ€œSNCโ€), SNCโ€™s President and Chief Executive Officer Neil Bruce, and SNCโ€™s Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer Sylvain Girard (the โ€œActionโ€). The Action alleges that persons who acquired SNC shares between February...

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Transvaginal Mesh

Transvaginal Mesh (also referred to as pelvic mesh, vaginal mesh, a โ€œhammock,โ€ or a โ€œslingโ€) is used to treat pelvic organ prolapse (โ€œPOPโ€) and stress urinary incontinence (โ€œSUIโ€) in women. It is associated with the development of a number of side effects including mesh erosion through the vaginal wall, infection, pain, urinary problems, recurrence of...

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TransCanada to sue US under NAFTA over Keystone XL decision

Calgary-based pipeline company TransCanadaย has filed a Notice of Intent to Arbitrate (“Notice”) under article 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”). It issued the Notice in response to US president Barack Obama’s November 6, 2015ย refusal to grant theย necessary approval to complete construction ofย Keystone XL, a proposed trans-national pipeline that would deliver crude oil...

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