Personal Injury Team: Sunset Symposium
Thank you for attending the Siskinds Personal Injury Sunset Symposium on September 21, 2023. Slides from this event were made available to attendees until November 1, 2023. If you were unable to download the slides prior to November 1st and would like access to them, please email [email protected]. If someone from your organization would like...
Continue reading the post titled Personal Injury Team: Sunset SymposiumHow fish farms can hurt wild salmon
Here in Ontario, we are hearing almost nothing from the British Columbia Cohen Commission inquiry into the decline of sockeye salmon, whose final report will not be released until next June. It was therefore fascinating, and horrifying, to discover Alexandra Morton’s blog on the evidence being heard each day. Dr. Kristi Miller, for example, is...
Continue reading the post titled How fish farms can hurt wild salmonClotheslines, pesticides, and water bottles
This year, Earth week in Ontario was marked by three small steps in the long battle to keep from destroying our own world. Each of the three had as much cultural as legal significance. Last summer, this blog got coast-to-coast publicity for our call for action on clothesline bans. Clothesline bans are often part of...
Continue reading the post titled Clotheslines, pesticides, and water bottlesDivisional Court Refuses to Award Costs in Judicial Review of the White Pines Wind Project
The Honourable Marc Labrosse of the Divisional Court recently refused both moving parties’ demands for costs in the latest iteration of CCSAGE Naturally Green’s (“CCSAGE”) judicial review challenging various administrative decisions relating to the White Pines Wind Project. Labrosse J’s costs endorsement of August 9, 2018 (reported as CCSAGE Naturally Green v. Director, Sec. 47.5...
Continue reading the post titled Divisional Court Refuses to Award Costs in Judicial Review of the White Pines Wind ProjectThings we wish judges knew about environmental offences by directors
Dianne Saxe had a precious opportunity to tell judges what we wish they knew about environmental offences by directors and and officers, particularly in relation to sentencing. Our bottom lines: Fairness, Good Science, and the real differences between Foresight and Hindsight. It is rarely constructive to severely punish people who are already doing their best, but...
Continue reading the post titled Things we wish judges knew about environmental offences by directorsU.S. Waiver
If you have been charged with a criminal offence in Canada or the United States, depending on the outcome of your criminal case, you may be denied entry to the U.S. and you may have to apply for a U.S. waiver. Our team can assist you with preparation of the U.S. waiver application and subsequent renewals.
Continue reading the post titled U.S. WaiverWest Virginia gets serious about liability barriers to brownfield revitalization
The Voluntary Land Stewardship Program is the critical innovation. It gives developers of rehabilitated contaminated sites certainty, by taking on their long term liability risk for a fixed fee.
Continue reading the post titled West Virginia gets serious about liability barriers to brownfield revitalizationBuyer’s Remorse: Cancelling A Consumer Agreement
Buyer’s remorse: that feeling you get the moment you realize you’ve made a purchasing decision that seemed like a good idea at the time, but later seems like a huge mistake. Buyer’s remorse can happen for a number of reasons, and is especially common where you feel pressure to make a decision, or do not have...
Continue reading the post titled Buyer’s Remorse: Cancelling A Consumer AgreementBitter bedbug battle
Over the past decade, North America and western Europe have seen an alarming resurgence of bedbugs in homes, university dormitories, apartments and hotels. Although the reason for the proliferation of bedbugs is not clear, some attribute this to the increase in international travel, use of narrower spectrum insecticides targetting other insect pests (that don’t work...
Continue reading the post titled Bitter bedbug battleIn Our Firm
Siskinds values and encourages equity, diversity and inclusivity in our firm and in our community. We understand that actualizing these values is a journey, one we are approaching with the understanding that we have much to learn. We aspire to foster an environment that is increasingly welcoming and inclusive, that recognizes and values differences. We...
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