Municipalities recovering spill costs
In 2005, the Environmental Protection Act was amended to allow municipalities a new mechanism to recover the costs of cleaning up spills. s.100.1 allows municipalities to cleanup spills caused by private parties, and to issue orders to recover the costs. This has also allowed the MOE to download to municipalities the cost and responsibility of...
Continue reading the post titled Municipalities recovering spill costsAcquittals in Two Recent Fisheries Act Prosecutions
We often report on convictions under the Fisheries Act. It is less often that we report on acquittals. In the last several months, two cases related to charges against farmers in PEI under the Fisheries Act were dismissed. The cases turned on whether the farmers, contrary to section 36(3) the Act, permitted the deposit of...
Continue reading the post titled Acquittals in Two Recent Fisheries Act ProsecutionsInnocent victim, Kawartha Lakes, gets leave to appeal spill cleanup order
The Ontario Court of Appeal has granted leave to appeal the Ministry of the Environment Order requiring an innocent victim of a spill, the City of Kawartha Lakes, to clean up oil from a domestic fuel spill.
Continue reading the post titled Innocent victim, Kawartha Lakes, gets leave to appeal spill cleanup orderVerbal References: The Truth Shall Set You Free
Some employers are wary about providing references for former employees, fearing a defamation lawsuit. However, a recent decision of the Divisional Court suggests that negative references that are substantially true and provided without malice may not be defamatory. In the trial decision of Papp v Stokes et al, 2017 ONSC 2357, the plaintiff brought a...
Continue reading the post titled Verbal References: The Truth Shall Set You FreeReminder: Federally-regulated employers must provide free menstrual products to their employees starting December 15, 2023
On December 15th, 2023, Regulations Amending Certain Regulations Made Under the Canada Labour Code (Menstrual Products) (the “Regulations”) will come into force, requiring federally-regulated employers in Canada to provide menstrual products to their employees at no cost. What exactly is required? Federally-regulated employers must provide menstrual products, including clean and hygienic menstrual pads and tampons,...
Continue reading the post titled Reminder: Federally-regulated employers must provide free menstrual products to their employees starting December 15, 2023Hughes v. Liquor Control Board of Ontario: Ontario Court of Appeal provides guidance on breadth of the Regulated Conduct Defence
On April 17, 2019 the Court of Appeal of Ontario released its decision in Hughes v. Liquor Control Board of Ontario, 2019 ONCA 305 [Hughes]. The Court of Appeal’s decision provides guidance to counsel on the scope of the Regulated Conduct Defence (the “RCD”). The RCD is a defence in the Competition Act that can...
Continue reading the post titled Hughes v. Liquor Control Board of Ontario: Ontario Court of Appeal provides guidance on breadth of the Regulated Conduct DefenceAn introduction to smog
Air pollution causes 5,900 deaths each year in eight Canadian cities alone.
Continue reading the post titled An introduction to smogHide and seek with bylaws
The Internet has been an enormous boon to those needing to keep up with municipal bylaws. Instead of the old process of sending a student down to City Hall, now we just access the city’s website. But it turns out that municipalities have as much trouble keeping their websites up-to-date as everybody else. On the...
Continue reading the post titled Hide and seek with bylawsCanada lags US in protecting endangered Sage-Grouse
In July, the US Fish and Wildlife Service launched a website to “communicate the breadth of the ongoing conservation actions underway to support Greater Sage-Grouse and the sage brush habitat the bird and 350 other species need.” The Greater Sage-Grouse website highlights work being done at the federal, state, NGO and individual level. Public affairs...
Continue reading the post titled Canada lags US in protecting endangered Sage-GrouseNanomaterials- are we protected?
Canada's regulators are struggling to catch up with the explosion of nanotechnology.
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