A Year of Growth and Opportunity
As the new year enters with the promise of new beginnings, we wish to extend many thanks to our clients and readers for making 2015 and excellent year. What a fabulous and exciting year for us. We were presented with many opportunities in 2015 including the transition Saxe Law Office to Siskinds LLP with the appointment...
Continue reading the post titled A Year of Growth and OpportunityHow will Canadian Environmental Assessment Act 2012 work for designated projects?
According to the Conservatives, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 (CEAA 2012) will streamline the EA process, avoid duplication and consolidate responsibility for [EA] to three agencies instead of 40.[1] These three agencies are the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (the Agency), the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), or the National Energy Board (NEB).[2] The government hopes that CEAA 2012...
Continue reading the post titled How will Canadian Environmental Assessment Act 2012 work for designated projects?$750,000 Fine for Killing Migratory Birds
On November 5, 2015 Canaport LNG Limited Partnership plead guilty to charges under the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994 and the Species at Risk Act and was ordered to pay a total penalty of $750,000 by the New Brunswick Provincial court. The investigation conducted by Environment Canada into the incident disclosed that in September 2013...
Continue reading the post titled $750,000 Fine for Killing Migratory BirdsNanomaterials- are we protected?
Canada's regulators are struggling to catch up with the explosion of nanotechnology.
Continue reading the post titled Nanomaterials- are we protected?Quebec Ontario Agreement on GHG
Cooperation on GHG emissions? Uh-uh — Feds’ knickers in a knot over pact between Ontario and Quebec Ontario and Québec signed a memorandum of understanding on climate change during Canadian Environment Week, on June 2. Premiers McGuinty and Charest propose that an inter-provincial carbon-trading system be established “as early as” January 1, 2010. They plan...
Continue reading the post titled Quebec Ontario Agreement on GHGSuboxone (Buprenorphine / Naloxone)
Buprenorphine/Naloxone, marketed as Suboxone®, is a pharmaceutical drug approved in Canada as a substitution treatment in adults with opioid drug dependence, prescribed as a tablet or film that dissolves in the mouth. Buprenorphine — an active ingredient in Suboxone — is reported to increase the risk of dental issues for users. Siskinds LLP and Siskinds’...
Continue reading the post titled Suboxone (Buprenorphine / Naloxone)Qualcomm Incorporated (Inflated Prices for Cellular Devices)
Actions were commenced in British Columbia and Quebec seeking damages and other relief on behalf of Canadian purchasers of cellular devices (such as cell phones and tablets) that use modem chips. Modem chips are semi-conductor devices that enable cell phones and other devices to connect to cellular networks operated by providers such as Rogers and...
Continue reading the post titled Qualcomm Incorporated (Inflated Prices for Cellular Devices)HDD Suspension Assemblies
Siskinds LLP has filed a proposed class action alleging that the defendants conspired to fix, maintain, or stabilize the prices of HDD Suspension Assemblies sold in North America and elsewhere between May 1, 2008 and April 30, 2016. Siskinds’ Québec-based affiliate, Siskinds Desmeules, also filed a similar action on behalf of Québec residents. HDD Suspension...
Continue reading the post titled HDD Suspension AssembliesBaffinland Iron Mines Corporation
In April 2011, a class action was commenced in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in relation to the take-over bid for the securities of Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation completed in February of 2011. Siskinds LLP represents the Class. The class action alleged that the documents provided to Baffinland’s securityholders in respect of the take-over...
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