Siskinds and The London Hunt Club Serve up Aces
Siskinds was proud to be a sponsor of this year’s Fowler Kennedy Tennis Classic held at the London Hunt Club. This great event raises funds each year to help support the Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic and has raised over $150,000 since it played its first set. Congratulations to everyone involved in helping to support...
Continue reading the post titled Siskinds and The London Hunt Club Serve up AcesHave taxpayers “had it” with Union tactics and benefits?
How times have changed! Back in the dark ages of my youth, we took postal strikes for granted. Every few years, the posties got restless and our Sears catalogue was delayed for a week or two. Unless it was the Wish Book, most people pretty much took it in stride. Not so today. Judging by...
Continue reading the post titled Have taxpayers “had it” with Union tactics and benefits?Public risk, private profits – why cap liability?
Humans are not perfect. Engineering, while amazing, is not perfect. Accidents ( including spills) will happen. What should environmental law, and lawyers, do about it?
Continue reading the post titled Public risk, private profits – why cap liability?Tar sands polluting the Athabaska River
How do the tar sands operators get away with polluting the great Athabaska River, despite federal and provincial laws that allegedly protect rivers? By insisting that everything is fine, and that all the pollution is “natural”. Now, Professor David Schindler has blown their cover, by collecting the kind of data that governments used to do. Will...
Continue reading the post titled Tar sands polluting the Athabaska RiverThe Green World Economy
The question for Canada is: will we be one of the winners, or one of the losers of this great transition?
Continue reading the post titled The Green World EconomyGas from fracking dirtier than coal?
Hydraulic fracturing, in pursuit of shale gas, can cause serious groundwater problems, which are sometimes excused on the ground that the climate needs natural gas to displace coal. It’s therefore shocking to learn that shale gas could have worse GHG emissions than coal, according to a Cornell study published in the May issue of Climatic...
Continue reading the post titled Gas from fracking dirtier than coal?Crowdfunding
With the proliferation of Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, GoFundMe and others, many small businesses are beginning to view crowdfunding as a viable revenue source. Globally, crowdfunding accounted for $5.1 billion in revenue. There are currently over 112 active crowdfunding platforms located in Canada. As more and more businesses launch crowdfunding initiatives, it is important that they understand the risks...
Continue reading the post titled CrowdfundingSiskinds Franchise Law Group Named Global Leader in Franchise Law
Congratulations to Peter Dillon and the franchise law group, for being named a Canadian leader in franchise law in the Corporate LiveWire 2016 Global Awards! These awards recognize individuals and companies in the corporate finance sector that have demonstrated great achievements in the past 12 months. Each firm has been put under great scrutiny by...
Continue reading the post titled Siskinds Franchise Law Group Named Global Leader in Franchise LawDisclose that contamination? Or not?
Owners of contaminated sites are sometimes reluctant to disclose what they know, hoping to get rid of the liability with the property. Anyone who is so tempted will want to follow what happens in 1623242 Ontario Inc. v. Great Lakes Copper Inc., 2013 ONSC 7935 and 2013 ONSC 2548. In this case, Wolverine Tube 1...
Continue reading the post titled Disclose that contamination? Or not?Banning the Microbead
In case you missed it a few weeks back, the federal government made an unexpected announcement just days before the federal election campaign was announced: it intends to ban the use of microbead products in personal care products. So how will it work? The government proposes publishing an Order to add microbeads to the List of Toxic Substances...
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