Who’s responsible for reducing local air pollution?
Air pollution is wide-spread across Ontario, coming from many sources and moving with large air masses from one region to the next. It’s resulting in health effects, including cancer and respiratory illnesses like asthma. Last year, more than 5000 premature deaths were attributed to poor air quality, in Ontario alone, and there were almost...
Continue reading the post titled Who’s responsible for reducing local air pollution?Money for Brownfields
Until September 19, 2007, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Green Municipal Fund (GMF) is accepting applications from municipalities for low-interest loans to fund brownfield remediation projects. The projects must result in conservation of heritage buildings or construction of new buildings to at least a LEED™ Silver rating. (LEED has really caught on as benchmark of...
Continue reading the post titled Money for BrownfieldsOntario Anti-SLAPP law soon after all?
Yesterday, we noted that Environment Minister Glen Murray’s mandate letter includes no reference to a new anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit against Public Participation) law: https://www.siskinds.com/environment-minister-murrays-mandate-letter/, even though SLAPPs are often directed against environmental protection groups. A faithful reader has helpfully pointed out that, thankfully, that is because bringing the anti-SLAPP law back to the Legislature is mandated to...
Continue reading the post titled Ontario Anti-SLAPP law soon after all?Highly Commended – Top Tier – 2011
Dear Readers, Thank you for continuing to vote us one of your most honoured firms. We have received another commendation: “Your firm is receiving this notification as a recipient in the InterContinental Finance Magazine’s ‘HIGHLY COMMENDED – TOP TIER FIRMS – 2011’ programme. Your firm is considered to have performed to exceptional levels during one of...
Continue reading the post titled Highly Commended – Top Tier – 2011Video Testimonial – Insurance
Our client suffered from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy), causing her to take time off work due to the pressure in her chest. The insurance company limited her compensation. Civil litigation lawyer, Dagmara Wozniak, provided the legal support that our client needed to feel comfortable in the court room. She tells her story here:...
Continue reading the post titled Video Testimonial – InsuranceUS climate rules, California and Ontario's cap and trade plan
Canada has done so little for so long that our climate policy has laid us wide open to serious protectionist provisions in the 1500 page ACES, HR 2454.
Continue reading the post titled US climate rules, California and Ontario's cap and trade planWhy I'm supporting the Green Shift
The basic concept of the Green Shift is simple: we should tax income less, and pollution more. And the great advantage for consumers is this: for most of us, it’s much less painful to reduce pollution (and thus tax) than it is to reduce income.
Continue reading the post titled Why I'm supporting the Green ShiftBicycle Accident Compensation: Insurance Coverage for Injured Cyclists
When sharing a road with cars, cyclists, even when wearing the appropriate safety gear, run a risk of being struck by a vehicle and injured. Cyclists, like cars, are expected to obey the rules of the road, including signalling, obeying traffic lights, and not riding in pedestrian crosswalks. However, unlike cars, cyclists are not required to have...
Continue reading the post titled Bicycle Accident Compensation: Insurance Coverage for Injured CyclistsNew Biodiversity Treaty in effect this week
Fair sharing of biodiversity: The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization, under the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), enters into force this week. The Protocol is an international environmental agreement intended to ensure that those, who share access to genetic resources and associated traditional...
Continue reading the post titled New Biodiversity Treaty in effect this weekWaste diversion, odour and climate change
Clare Booth Luce, the famous American playwright, journalist, ambassador, and Congresswoman, used to say, “no good deed goes unpunished”. To my regret, this sardonic and rather depressing phrase is, all too often, a good description of environmental laws. One example is the management of odour issues from waste diversion.
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