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Follow us on TwitterIn August David McRobert and Paula Boutis asked if it was time for Ontario political parties to revisit the issue of intervenor funding and access to environmental justice. They have followed up and made an application under the Environmental Bill of Rights requesting a review of existing laws, regulations and policies related to public participation and hearings under the Environment Assessment Act and other environmental and planning laws.
David McRobert and Paula Boutis Propose an Ontario Participant and Intervenor Funding Act
January 30th, 2012 by Iler Campbell LLPNew Human Rights Legislation in Ontario: Is Your Organization Accessible to Individuals with Disabilities?
January 24th, 2012 by Priya SarinRecognizing the barriers that individuals with disabilities face in obtaining access to goods, services, facilities, accommodation, employment and buildings or premises, the Ontario legislature enacted the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA).
Sage-Grouse petition ignored by federal government
January 18th, 2012 by Laura BowmanEcojustice filed a petition in November demanding that federal Environment Minister Peter Kent issue an emergency order to protect a sagebrush prairie bird from extirpation from Canada. They relied on provisions in the federal Species at Risk Act (SARA) (section 80(2)) allowing the Minister to recommend emergency protection of the endangered Sage-Grouse and stop further human disturbance in the habitat the birds need to survive. The petition, sent on behalf of an international coalition of 12 environmental groups, demanded that the Minister respond by Jan. 16.
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Defamation, SLAPP suits, and the Internet Age
January 13th, 2012 by Paula Boutis and Tim PetrouThe Internet represents a communications revolution. It makes instantaneous global communication available cheaply to anyone with a computer and an Internet connection. It enables individuals, institutions, and companies to communicate with a potentially vast global audience. It is a medium which does not respect geographical boundaries. Concomitant with the utopian possibility of creating virtual communities, enabling aspects of identity to be explored, and heralding a new and global age of free speech and democracy, the Internet is also potentially a medium of virtually limitless international defamation [emphasis added]. 1
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- Matthew Collins, The Law of Defamation and the Internet (Oxford University Press, 2001), at para. 24.02 ↩
Wither Ontario’s Endangered Species?
January 12th, 2012 by Paula BoutisOn January 10, 2011, the Environmental Commissioner’s released his special report “Biodiversity: A Nation’s Commitment, an Obligation for Ontario.” The Commissioner’s Press release is aptly titled “Ontario Government Missing in Action to Halt the Loss of Biodiversity.”
The Politics of enforcing laws protecting Polar Bears in Canada
January 11th, 2012 by Laura BowmanThe U.S. Center for Biological Diversity recently filed a petition at the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, that Canada is not effectively enforcing the Species At Risk Act (SARA) by failing to list and protect the Polar Bear as an endangered or threatened species. Currently, the Polar Bear is listed as a species of special concern. SARA sets up a process for listing that is intended to be based on objective science (the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada or COSEWIC). Although COSEWIC’s last evaluation raised alarm bells about the future of Polar Bears, the Minister has not listed them. There are continued controversies over which population units of the Bears should be protected and how.
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