An Alberta court enjoined the operation of the Public Service Salary Restraint Act that would have imposed the 2011 collective agreement on the members of the Crown bargaining unit for a four year term.

The lower court found that the covenant was in restraint of trade, ambiguous and unenforceable.

Our Employment and labour year in review assembles a number of important cases, recent developments in legislation and cases to watch for in 2014, all of which could potentially have an impact on the management of your human resources.

Federal regulations permit access to marijuana for medical purposes, and the use of marijuana can become a complicated issue in the workplace.

The British Columbia Supreme Court has dismissed a legal challenge to decisions of the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission (OGC) to grant successive, short-term approvals to EnCana Corporation to withdraw fresh water from B.C.'s lakes, rivers and streams for use in hydraulic fracturing operations.

Yesterday the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Corps of Engineers released a pre-publication, final version of a new rule defining the scope of "waters of the United States" under the Clean Water Act.

The Canadian Minister of Finance announced on September 19, 2013, that the federal government has agreed in principle with the provinces of British Columbia and Ontario to move towards establishing a cooperative capital markets regulatory system.

Legislation to prohibit "pay-to-pay" practices by banks has not yet been drafted. Therefore, at this point, we do not know exactly what will be prohibited.

In early December 2014, an outbreak of H5N2 strain of avian influenza was found in BC.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) released a study that provided the results of routine testing of food products for acrylamide levels.

Quand l’été approche, c’est le moment de l’année idéal pour préparer la prochaine étape de son parcours professionnel.

The Court accepted that where Parliament has comprehensively legislated in a particular area, as it has in respect to patents, it was reasonable to infer that it did not intend recovery to extend beyond those embodied in the regime.

Pour conclure la série de billets sur l'affaire des claviers brevetés par Blackberry, et les accusations de contrefaçon ICI, un règlement a été annoncé.

Déjà commenté çà et là : le projet de loi C-43, annoncé il y a quelques jours, mènera à d’importants changements à la Loi sur les brevets.

The Federal Court of Canada decided that the Federal limitation period of six years applied to an alleged trade-mark infringement which occurred in Ontario.

L'auteure commente cette décision de la Cour d'appel qui porte sur les articles 54.1 et suivants du Code de procédure civile, relatifs au pouvoir de sanctionner les abus de procédure.

The Government of Ontario announced on June 10 that it intends to introduce amendments to the province's Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) that, if passed, would strengthen privacy rules...

Il est acquis que la détermination du fardeau fiscal d'un contribuable est tributaire des opérations juridiques qu'il a mises en oeuvre, et ce, en deux temps.

The Canadian federal government announced two new tax measures to support the Canadian mining industry on March 1, 2015.

The US District Court of Maryland's recent decision concerning Aegis Mobile, LLC signals a major development in cross-border regulatory enforcement and cooperation between Canada and the United States.