An Ontario judge has refused to permit a professional engineer employed with the Ontario Ministry of Labour to testify as an expert in a health and safety prosecution.

In the case at hand, a worker had been welding a large steel product, approximately 6.5 feet off the ground, standing on planks atop A-frame steps.

Ontario’s government has introduced a Bill that would result in harsher penalties for distracted driving.

The Ontario Ministry of Labour is proposing amendments to safety laws as part of a broader national and international initiative to implement the "Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals", known as "GHS", which is a worldwide system of classifying and providing information about hazardous workplace chemicals.

A discussion on a recent wrongful dismissal case involving receipt of pornographic material, which illustrates how the contextual approach will be applied by courts.

As of July 1, 2014, Saskatchewan employers who violate certain occupational health and safety laws may be issued a Summary Offence Ticket.

An employee with a long history of substance abuse issues and absenteeism was properly dismissed after he attended at work while impaired.

One would think it self-evident that employees who punch a customer's employee in the face may be dismissed for just cause.

Ontario’s Ministry of Labour has announced several upcoming blitzes during which it will ensure that employers in specified industries are compliant.

Many employers hire independent contractors to assist in their workplace and in most cases, the assumption is that doing so will result in minimal or no notice of termination having to be paid at the end of the relationship.

Ontario’s Divisional Court has decided that the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act’s age cut-off for loss of earnings benefits for older workers did not violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The securities regulatory authorities in all Canadian jurisdictions published Multilateral CSA Notice 45-313.

The Commissioner of Lobbying, pursuant to powers in the Lobbying Act, has published a revised Code of Conduct and invited written submissions on these proposed revisions.

In case you missed it, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ("OECD") released the revised Guidelines Governing the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data (the "OECD Privacy Guidelines") last month.

In case you missed it, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada posted Report of Findings #2013-004 on November 4, 2013 relating to an access inquiry by a former employee of a bank under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

Earlier this month, the Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner, Jill Clayton, published the second instalment of her submissions with respect to the review of the Alberta Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

Earlier this year, I reported that the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada was participating in the first ever Internet sweep by the Global Privacy Enforcement Network.

Hot on the heels of the CRA’s recent publication of a "fact sheet" on its views on the tax treatment of Bitcoin currency (which has been in the news recently.

The taxpayer was in the business of designing, manufacturing and selling aluminum and vinyl windows.

Earlier this year, McKesson Canada Corporation appealed the decision of the Tax Court of Canada in McKesson Canada Corporation v. The Queen.