The importance of the recent Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) decision in Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia, 2014 SCC 44 (the “Decision”) has not gone unnoticed, being variously referred to as “historic”, a “game-changer” and a “landmark” decision. Historic? Yes. A game-changer? Not necessarily […]
In a rare (and over 200-page) decision, the Federal Court of Canada revoked the Licence given to Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to construct new nuclear generation units at the existing Darlington nuclear facility, and ordered that the environmental assessment (EA) […]
Michael Trebilcock, Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, has now published his 29th book (I may be one or two out) “Dealing with Losers”. Michael, a most distinguished academic lawyer/political economist has since his first book in 1997, […]
The development of natural gas and oil using horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, (“Fraccing,” or “Fracking,” depending on one’s position on it) has been one of the most revolutionary and one of most divisive events in the last hundred years […]