Ontario energy critic demands to know cost of partially constructed Mississauga gas power plant
Partner Glenn W. Ackerley is quoted in this article on the implications regarding the recently-cancelled construction project on a gas-generated electrical power station west of Toronto.
Toronto to place planning power in local hands
A black sign with orange letters covering the boarded-up entrance to a quaint, if lonely, clapboard house screams: Private Property No Trespassing. Next door, there is an identical warning, and […]
Ontario to review conflict rules; Light rail not at risk after 14 councillors sit on sidelines for transit votes
Ontario denies rail transit has been put at risk after one in three municipal councillors backed out of the largest public works project undertaken here.
Case Law Update: British Columbia (Workers Compensation Board) v Figliola
Administrative Law Human Rights Tribunal Jurisdiction
Case Law Update: Canada (Canadian Human Rights Commission) v Canada (Attorney General)
Administrative Law Remedial Jurisdiction Canadian Human Rights Act Legal Costs Standard of Review Statutory Interpretation
Case Law Update: Crookes v Newton
Libel and Slander Hyperlinks Publication Innocent Dissemination
Case Law Update: Lax Kw’alaams Indian Band v Canada (Attorney General)
Constitution Act, 1982 Aboriginal Rights Proof
Case Law Update: R v Côté
Constitutional law Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms s. 24(2) Exclusion of evidence
Case Law Update: W.J. Holdings Limited v City of Toronto
Municipality Civil Contempt Conditions on Demolition Permits
Litigation Update – November 2011
Seven case law updates released between October and November 2011.
Time for protest to end, Ford says; Occupy Toronto; Tickets or cold weather might end encampment
Mayor Rob Ford wouldn’t say how it might happen, or when, but he left little doubt Wednesday that he would soon be advocating for an end to the three-week Occupy […]
Occupy Toronto ready to resist eviction; City has yet to move, but sympathetic church co-owns St. James Park
Police crackdowns, court injunctions and warnings: around the world, the Occupy movement is being pushed and it is being shoved.
Doing Business in Ontario: An Overview of Environmental Protection Law – 2011
This guide provides a brief overview of the main elements of environmental protection law in Ontario. Its main objective is to identify the principal structural elements of the law and […]
Nasty neighbours dispute resolved on the public purse: The lessons learned
The Town of Meaford attracted the ire of the court by wading into a private property dispute between neighbours and spending significant public resources after doing so (The Corporation of […]
Case Law Update: Canada (Attorney General) v PHS Community Services
Constitutional Division of Powers Interjurisdictional Immunity Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Life, Liberty and Security of the Person Principles of Fundamental Justice Ministerial Discretion