West Coast Environmental Law’s new report, Professionals and Climate Change: How professional associations can get serious about global warming, challenges the self-regulating professions to clearly define their members’ ethical obligation that the members of professional organizations owe to their clients and the public relating to climate change.

How much should municipalities have to pay to preserve sensitive areas? Windsor paid so dearly in Windsor (City) v. Paciorka, 2011 ONSC 2876, that other municipalities may be loath to try.

Rancor Wood Recycling Inc. and Randy Corfield were fined a total of $112,000 for failing to comply with Ministry of the Environment orders and with the certificate of approval for their glass and wood waste recycling site.

What's in a name? The Ontario Ministry of Environment and Climate Change has renamed its longstanding Waste Management Policy Branch the "Resource Recovery Policy Branch".

Following a recent loss in the Federal Court of Appeal, Minister of the Environment Leona Aglukkaq announced earlier this week that the federal government will introduce an Emergency Protection Order for the Greater Sage-Grouse, or at least for those of this rapidly declining species that happen to spend all of their time on Crown land.

A Canadian importer of small engines was recently convicted for violating the Canadian Environmental Protection Act ("CEPA").

On October 16, 2017 a sole director for the company Power Grow Systems Inc. was convicted for failing to comply with the terms and conditions of a Provisional Certificate of Approval ...

On May 10, 2019 a transportation trucking company was fined $100,000 plus the 25% victim fine surcharge for discharging a contaminant into the natural environment contrary to the provisions of the EPA.

On February 29, 2016, Teck Metals Ltd. plead guilty to three offences under the Fisheries Act for the release of substances deleterious to fish in the Columbia River.

Veolia Water Canada Inc. makes fertilizer pellets (sold as Nutri-Pel) from secondary sewage sludge.

Pelee Quarries and Erie Sand and Gravel Ltd. were fined $35,000 for Permit To Take Water Violations contrary to the "Ontario Water Resources Act".

People who actually live with and host wind turbines on their properties are rarely heard in the emotional debate on wind farms and health.

With the pandemic landscape shifting on a daily basis, we are all weighing our personal comfort in accessing medical support while weighing risks of what is, or is not, essential.

CTV News reported that Canadians are beginning to receive payments from a $78 million auto parts class action settlement.

iHeart Radio recently covered the announcement of Siskinds Desmeules proposed class action against Horne Foundry.

When Travis Scott took the stage at the Astroworld Festival at NRG Park in Houston, Texas on November 5, 2021, the crowd surged forward and the "crowd crush" resulted in the death of ten people...

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

In our previous blog post titled "Realtors, treat yourselves fairly", we discussed Bill 145, Trust in Real Estate Services Act, 2019, which would provide realtors with the ability to incorporate a professional real estate corporation.

The Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario (RCDSO) has made a recent change to the annual renewal process for Certificates of Authorization for a dentistry professional corporation.

On November 1, 2018, at the United Nations Ministerial Dialogue on the Environment and the Ministerial Dialogue on Climate Change, Minister of Environment and Climate Change ...