Accessibility
Our Commitment At Siskinds, we are committed to doing things the right way. That includes providing excellent, accessible client service to everyone, including people with disabilities. This commitment means that we do our best to provide our legal services to people with disabilities in a manner that respects their dignity and independence, while at the same...
Continue reading the post titled AccessibilityRDSPs: working with Henson Trusts
Prior to the introduction of the Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) in 2008, the most prudent financial planning tool for parents with a child suffering from prolonged and severe disabilities was the Henson trust. RDSPs have not made the Henson trust obsolete; it can be used jointly with the RDSP to optimize the long-term savings...
Continue reading the post titled RDSPs: working with Henson TrustsPrivacy policies: Why are they important?
If you operate an online platform–be it a website or a mobile app–you probably also collect, use, or disclose personal information. If so, you are required to have a privacy policy[1]. Privacy policies explain to your patrons what data you collect, why you collect that data, how that data will be used, and how you...
Continue reading the post titled Privacy policies: Why are they important?Did anything happen at Durban?
I am profoundly depressed by the thicket of verbiage coming out of Durban about climate change. So countries promise to agree to promise to do what they promise (if everyone else does too). Great. The Kyoto Protocol was supposed to be legally binding too, but there have been no meaningful consequences for countries, such as...
Continue reading the post titled Did anything happen at Durban?Misrepresentation in Accredited Investor Prospectus Exempt Offerings in Ontario
Part I – Mind the Angle Shooters The more dangerous malefactors are the men in high places who take a good property, overcapitalize it, appraise its value at many times what it is worth, use artful publicity and market methods to beguile the public into believing the stock is worth par or more, and foist...
Continue reading the post titled Misrepresentation in Accredited Investor Prospectus Exempt Offerings in OntarioCreditor or regulator? Nortel, the MOE and environment v insolvency
If there are continuing operations, there has to be ongoing compliance with environmental legislation. But if there are no ongoing operations, the environmental regulator has to rely on its security, failing which it has unsecured status.
Continue reading the post titled Creditor or regulator? Nortel, the MOE and environment v insolvencyPodcast highlight: St. Joseph’s Health Care on supporting someone after sexual assault
St. Joseph’s Health Care has released their latest DocTalks Podcast episode featuring Dr. Susan McNair, family physician and medical director of the Regional Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Treatment Centre at St. Joseph’s Health Care London. In this episode, Dr. McNair and DocTalks Host Ian Gillespie discuss the prevalence of sexual assault in our community, the support...
Continue reading the post titled Podcast highlight: St. Joseph’s Health Care on supporting someone after sexual assaultBill 66 – Expanded Municipal Zoning Power Would Make Some Environmental Land Use Policies Optional
UPDATE: Government announces that it will not be proceeding with Schedule 10 of the Bill. See update here. On December 6th, 2018, Bill 66, Restoring Ontario’s Competitiveness Act, 2018, passed first reading in the Ontario legislature. The government’s Proposal Summary on the Environmental Registry indicates that the Bill is intended to “stimulate business investment, create...
Continue reading the post titled Bill 66 – Expanded Municipal Zoning Power Would Make Some Environmental Land Use Policies OptionalCourt grants defendant injunction and inspection order to investigate plaintiff’s property
In 2014, Metrus Properties sued Wrigley Canada claiming Wrigley’s neighbouring property had contaminated its property. When Wrigley asked to access the Metrus property to conduct environmental tests, Metrus refused. In April of 2016, the Superior Court of Justice granted an injunction to temporarily prevent Metrus from redeveloping its property and also ordered access to Metrus’s property...
Continue reading the post titled Court grants defendant injunction and inspection order to investigate plaintiff’s propertyOCA Clarifies Franchisor Disclosure Obligations
After getting off to a shaky start, the Ontario Court of Appeal seems to be finding its feet in the interpretation of franchisors’ disclosure obligations as mandated by the Arthur Wishart Act (Franchise Disclosure) 2000, S.O. 2000 c. 3, and its General Regulation. In the case of Caffé Demetre Franchising Corp. v. 2249027 Ontario Inc., 2015...
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