In early October, the Superior Court released a decision which looked at how the law governing fundamental changes to an employment contract applied in the context of worker co‑operatives. It also considered whether “sweat equity credits” amounted to “member shares” under the Co‑operative Corporations Act (CCA).
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Iler Campbell LLP is pleased to be a Silver Sponsor to the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, in the second annual “Twitter Moot”, hosted by the West Coast Environmental Law Association (WCEL), on November 20, 2012, at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST). This is Iler Campbell’s second year sponsoring the Dalhousie team, the alma matter of Iler Campbell lawyer Paula Boutis, where Paula obtained her law degree, with a specialization in environmental law.
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The new federal Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 (CEAA 2012) has adopted new criteria for standing at review panel hearings that includes the words “directly affected”. The Kelly series of cases from Alberta help shed some light on the meaning of that requirement and how it might develop at the federal level. Under CEAA 2012 review panels will decide what it means, but will be subject to supervision by the courts.
Paula Boutis and our articling student, Jessica Weizenbluth, recently authored a paper on species at risk legislation which Paula presented as part of the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Six Minute Environmental Lawyer 2012. The paper and presentation provide an overview of the laws on the books, how they have been applied, case law, and where the legislation is going from here. Download the paper and presentation here.
Preparations continue to lay the groundwork for the coming into force of Canada’s anti‑spam law.1 On October 10, 2012, the CRTC published two information guidelines regarding the legislation: Guidelines on the interpretation of the Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations (CRTC) (CRTC Guideline 2012‑548) and Guidelines on the use of toggling as a means of obtaining express consent under Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CRTC Guideline 2012‑549).
The background to the CRTC Guidelines is that on December 15, 2010, Royal Assent was given to Canada’s anti‑spam law. A date for the law’s coming into force will be set in the coming months, with the date now expected to be in mid‑2013. The anti‑spam law will affect any individual, business and organization that:
If you are involved in the operation of a non‑profit or charity why should you care about the anti‑spam law? Increasingly, non‑profit organizations and charities are using electronic means of communicating with people, and the anti‑spam legislation will apply to many, if not all, of those electronic messages. How so?
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In April, the Human Rights Commission released its Policy on Competing Human Rights. This policy provides importance guidance on what to do when to accommodate the rights of one person leads to a possible breach of the rights of another. This comes up sometimes for our clients and so we were excited to receive an invitation today to attend a free training session on how to use this policy. We plan to be there and you may want to too!
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