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Company Officers And Managers Can Be Subject To Fisheries Act Inspector's Directions: What Terrapure Means For Industry And Individuals

The Federal Court (Court) recently set aside the direction of an Environment and Climate Change Canada inspector (Inspector) issued pursuant to the Fisheries Act (Direction).

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

From Policy To Practice: Canada's Evolving Environmental Law In 2025

In 2025, Canada's environmental regulatory landscape underwent sweeping changes, as federal and provincial governments introduced reforms aimed...

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Biodiversity Net Gain: How Planning Teams And Developers Are Making It Work

With the UN Climate Change Conference, COP30, underway in Belém, Brazil, biodiversity and nature conservation is high on the global agenda. And in England, Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is an example of how policy...

Canada Environment

GW

Gowling WLG

Cadre de mise en œuvre du droit à un environnement sain dans le cadre de la LCPE

En juin 2023, la Loi canadienne sur la protection de l'environnement (1999) (la « LCPE ») a été modifiée afin de reconnaître le droit à un environnement sain...

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Greenwashing Rules May Get A Makeover In Canada's 2025 Budget

Canada Environment

BL

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Implementation Framework For The Right To A Healthy Environment Under CEPA

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Green Light For Green Claims? Federal Government Reverses Course On Greenwashing Rules In Budget 2025

Canada Environment

GW

Gowling WLG

Let's Get Together (Yay-Yay-Yay): What Ontario's Consolidation Of Conservation Authorities Means For Stakeholders

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

Changes Coming To Alberta's TIER System

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

Amendments To Filing A Record Of Site Condition

Canada Environment

BL

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Important Changes To Records Of Site Condition And (Yet Again) Excess Soils

Canada Environment

WL

WeirFoulds LLP

Alberta Energy Regulator Finds Athabasca River Basin Is Not A 'Person'

Canada Environment

OH

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Financial Regulators Assess Climate Resilience Of Canadian Financial Institutions

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Greenwashing – Out With The Old, In With The New

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

Torys On Budget 2025: Tax Highlights

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Torys LLP

2025 Canada Federal Budget: A Summary Of Key Tax Proposals

MT

Miller Thomson LLP

2025 Federal Budget Tax Highlights

CM

Crowe MacKay LLP

Understanding The 2025 Federal Budget: Implications For Canadian Charities And Non-profits

Canada Commercial

MT

Miller Thomson LLP

Semi-Annual Reporting Moves From Concept To Pilot: What Venture Issuers Need To Know

C

Cassels

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Company Officers And Managers Can Be Subject To Fisheries Act Inspector's Directions: What Terrapure Means For Industry And Individuals

The Federal Court (Court) recently set aside the direction of an Environment and Climate Change Canada inspector (Inspector) issued pursuant to the Fisheries Act (Direction).

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

From Policy To Practice: Canada's Evolving Environmental Law In 2025

In 2025, Canada's environmental regulatory landscape underwent sweeping changes, as federal and provincial governments introduced reforms aimed...

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Second Tranche Of Projects Referred To Canada's Major Projects Office

On November 13, 2025, the Prime Minister of Canada announced the referral of a second tranche of projects to the Major Projects Office (MPO).

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

New Framework For Projects Of National Interest: Issues And Opportunities For Indigenous Peoples

Canada Government

L,

Langlois Lawyers, LLP

Biodiversity Net Gain: How Planning Teams And Developers Are Making It Work

Canada Environment

GW

Gowling WLG

Proposed Legislation Would Scale Back "Anti-Greenwashing" Provisions In Competition Act

Canada Anti-trust

MA

MLT Aikins LLP

New Report Explores Nuclear Development In Western Canada

MA

MLT Aikins LLP

Cadre de mise en œuvre du droit à un environnement sain dans le cadre de la LCPE

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

IESO's Long-Lead-Time RFP: What Proponents Need To Know

Canada Government

BL

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

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Climate Change

Company Officers And Managers Can Be Subject To Fisheries Act Inspector's Directions: What Terrapure Means For Industry And Individuals

The Federal Court (Court) recently set aside the direction of an Environment and Climate Change Canada inspector (Inspector) issued pursuant to the Fisheries Act (Direction).

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Biodiversity Net Gain: How Planning Teams And Developers Are Making It Work

With the UN Climate Change Conference, COP30, underway in Belém, Brazil, biodiversity and nature conservation is high on the global agenda. And in England, Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is an example of how policy...

Canada Environment

GW

Gowling WLG

Federal Budget 2025: Energy, Infrastructure, And Indigenous Funding Initiatives

Canada's federal budget, released on Nov. 4, 2025, marked Prime Minister Mark Carney's first budget as the head of a Liberal minority government.

BL

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Implementation Framework For The Right To A Healthy Environment Under CEPA

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Green Light For Green Claims? Federal Government Reverses Course On Greenwashing Rules In Budget 2025

Canada Environment

GW

Gowling WLG

Changes Coming To Alberta's TIER System

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

Des organismes de réglementation financière évaluent la résilience climatique des institutions financières canadiennes

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Financial Regulators Assess Climate Resilience Of Canadian Financial Institutions

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Bill C-5 And The Building Canada Act: Federal Government Seeks To Fast-Track 'National Interest' Projects

Canada Environment

AB

Aird & Berlis LLP

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Clean Air / Pollution

Implementation Framework For The Right To A Healthy Environment Under CEPA

The Framework establishes how CEPA will be administered to fulfill the Government of Canada's duty to respect, protect and fulfill the Right

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

A New Problem For EV Fast Chargers: Air Pollution

This information that follows is taken from sources including The Car Connection, Autoweek, Green Car Reports, and other industry sources.

Canada Environment

CM

Crowe MacKay LLP

Phase 1 Of The Federal Plastics Registry: Deadline To Submit Reports Fast Approaching

On April 20, 2024, the federal Department of the Environment published a notice in the Gazette ("Notice") pursuant to section 46(1) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999...

Canada Environment

BD

Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP

Are You Ready For The New Plastics Registry Reporting Due September 29?

Canada Environment

WL

WeirFoulds LLP

Ontario's SEZs: A Legislative Power Grab Endangering Indigenous Rights And The Environment

Canada Environment

JFK Law LLP

Plan For The Ban: Federal Plastics Registry Portal Is Now Live

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

Guidance Published For Reporting To The Federal Plastics Registry – Phase 1

Canada Environment

OH

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Plan For The Ban: Global Plastics Pollution Treaty Negotiations On Pause

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

Commeth The Hour, Commeth The Corporate: Will 2025 See Business Leaders Become The Most Important Climate Advocates?

Canada Environment

GW

Gowling WLG

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Waste Management

Cadre de mise en œuvre du droit à un environnement sain dans le cadre de la LCPE

En juin 2023, la Loi canadienne sur la protection de l'environnement (1999) (la « LCPE ») a été modifiée afin de reconnaître le droit à un environnement sain...

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Implementation Framework For The Right To A Healthy Environment Under CEPA

The Framework establishes how CEPA will be administered to fulfill the Government of Canada's duty to respect, protect and fulfill the Right

Canada Environment

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Quebec's EV Battery Recovery Program Goes Nationwide

On June 26 2025, the Electric Vehicle Battery Recovery Program (the "EV Battery Program"), originally an industry-led Quebec initiative, announced that it has now expanded across Canada.

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

Are You Ready For The New Plastics Registry Reporting Due September 29?

Canada Environment

WL

WeirFoulds LLP

Canadian Product Stewardship And EPR: 2025 Summer Update

Canada Environment

GW

Gowling WLG

Proposed Changes To Ontario's Recycling Regime (Part 1): Amendments To The Resource Recovery And Circular Economy Act, 2016

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

Proposed Changes To Ontario's Recycling Regime (Part 2): Amendments To The Blue Box Regulation

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

Safety First: Refusal To Comply With Safety Program Warrants Dismissal

Canada Employment

FW

Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP

Proposed Changes To Ontario's Recycling Regime (Part 3): RPRA Collection System, Management Requirements And Performance Credits Guidance

Canada Law Performance

ML

McMillan LLP

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Latest Videos

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Increased Scrutiny, Novel Measures, And Higher Penalties: Trends In Environmental Investigations, Enforcement, And Prosecutions (Video)

OH

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Key Takeaways From Our "Corporate Climate Change" Panel Discussion

MT

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

The Energy Transition Series: Smart Cities (Video)

BL

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Environmental Crises: Management Of Risks And Liabilities - Video

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Dentons Canada LLP

Looking For Leadership: The Costs Of Climate Inaction - Annual Greenhouse Gas Report 2014

GW

Gowling WLG

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