Why is fairness irrelevant?
Innocent parties forced to pay unfair environmental costs should seek compensation in the civil courts, and should not expect any help from the ERT.
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The biggest consequence of Copenhagen for Canada will probably be the erosion of our national reputation - instead of being nice people, we are now the Fossil of the Year, ragging on about "Climategate" when the rest of the world has moved on.
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Store Ownership and Licensed Producers Corporate store ownership will not be an option for licensed producers who wish to establish a significant presence in the cannabis retail market. Section 4(4) of the Cannabis License Act prohibits licensed producers and their affiliates from operating more than one retail store. The definition of “affiliate” under section 2...
Continue reading the post titled Cannabis License Act: Franchising ImplicationsA new approach to assessing resource projects coming down the pipeline?
The environmental review of proposed resource projects in Canada continues to undergo changes of late. Back in 2012, a duo of omnibus bills–Bill C-38 and Bill C-45–introduced significant changes to the way in which resource projects, such as the construction and expansion of pipelines. These changes included the scrapping and replacement of the existing federal...
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Senior governments seem to have no shame about downloading enormous, undisclosed environmental liabilities on municipalities. In an English case, Corby Group Litigation v. Corby District Council, the Corby Borough Council (CBC) has been held liable for allowing residents to become exposed to toxic substances during its 1980s cleanup of an old British Steel works. British...
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An immigration program available to skilled immigrants who wish to settle in Canada permanently and who have the skills and ability to contribute to Canada’s economy.
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This class action alleges that the Defendants unlawfully conspired to fix, increase, and/or maintain prices in the market for carbonless paper. The Plaintiff alleges that between at least October 1999 and September 2000, the Defendants and their senior executives, employees and agents struck agreements in respect of carbonless paper relating to the preservation of market...
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On October 25, 2010 Siskinds LLP filed a proposed securities class action against easyhome Ltd. (TSX: EH). Also named as defendants are certain of easyhome’s current and former officers and directors, including David Ingram, Steve Goertz and Chris Fregren. The easyhome Ltd. class action arises from easyhome’s disclosure of irregularities in one of its operating...
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In June and July of 2013, class actions were commenced in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Alberta Court of Queens’s Bench and the Quebec Superior Court against Cash Store Financial Services, Inc. (“Cash Store”) and certain of its officers and directors (the “Individual Defendants”). In November 2013, a class action lawsuit was commenced...
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