A total of 45 class actions have been filed over alleged conspiracies to fix auto part prices for new vehicles in Canada.

Japan has nuclear liability caps much higher than those in Canada. Under the Law on Compensation for Nuclear Damage, plant operator liability is exclusive and absolute, and power plant operators must provide a ‘financial security amount’ of ¥120 billion ($1.2 billion), 16 times the Canadian limit.

In Siskinds' Business Essentials, a limited-run podcast series, Chris Sinal of Siskinds' labour & employment group sits down with some of the firm's business lawyers to discuss current issues.

On Saturday, April 11, 2020, the Ontario government announced the extension of its emergency orders concerning the COVID-19 pandemic until April 23, 2020. This extension applies to all emergency orders...

The small Municipality of West Elgin and three of its water distribution system operators were fined for drinking water violations, including providing false information and failing to report adverse test results.

Congratulations to Gord Miller, Ontario’s Environmental Commissioner.

The Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board has released its 2012 Tailings Management Assessment Report, Oil Sands Mining Industry.

KNR Landfill Managers Inc., based at the controversial Vaughan transfer station, operate a landfill in Cayuga, Ontario.

Ontario’s air pollution regulation, 419/05, uses an American computer model to estimate how much air pollution from a stationary source reaches a point of impingement, usually the property boundary.

The Registry has been crucial to supporting public participation in environmental decision making in Ontario for nearly two decades.

Ecojustice will argue that Regulation 176/13, which allows major industries to avoid strict standards intended to protect at-risk species and their habitats, undermines and contravenes the Endangered Species Act.

As promised in Minister Murray's mandate letter, Ontario's provincial government has reintroduced the Great Lakes Protection Act.

Much like their hatchet job on the Fisheries Act, the federal Conservatives’ Bill C-45 has taken a similar axe to the Navigable Waters Protection Act, among other environmental changes in their latest Omnibus Bill.

Under regulation 153/04, the benchmark for contaminated site cleanups in Ontario has, since October 1, 2004, been the Soil, Ground Water and Sediment Standards for Use under Part XV.1 of the Environmental Protection Act, March 9, 2004. This standard becomes obsolete July 1, 2011, when substantial amendments to the contaminated sites rules come into effect.

Regulation 347, under the Environmental Protection Act, is going to be amended to broaden training requirements to all drivers of waste transportation vehicles.

Kathleen Wynne’s government has re-introduced the proposed Great Lakes Protection Act, 2013 as Bill 6, which is aimed at encouraging members of the Great Lakes community to collaborate to improve water quality and protect the lakes and their shores and wetlands.

Where are electronic documents for hazardous waste? Under Ontario’s Regulation 347, waste generators must keep some documents at the waste generation facility, in either physical or electronic form.

TORONTO, July 11, 2024 /CNW/ – The Ontario Superior Court of Justice approved class action settlements, one for C$1 million and another for US$3 million...

In Siskinds' Business Essentials, a limited-run podcast series, Chris Sinal of Siskinds' labour & employment group sits down with some of the firm's business lawyers...

On December 2, 2018, delegates from almost 200 nations convened in Katowice, Poland for the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)