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

This bulletin is Part 1 of our three-part series on proposed changes to Ontario's evolving extended producer responsibility ("EPR") regimes and provides an overview of recently proposed amendments...

Canada Environment

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McMillan LLP

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

In Part 2 of our three-part series on proposed changes to Ontario's extended producer responsibility ("EPR") regimes, we provide an overview of the recently...

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

Bill 5, Protect Ontario By Unleashing Our Economy Act, 2025: Now In Force

On June 5, 2025, Bill 5, titled Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025 ("Bill 5") received Royal Assent and became law. Bill 5, whose key changes we previously summarized here, modifies the Electricity Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Environmental Assessment Act

Canada Environment

MT

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

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

Ontario's Bill 5, the "Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025,"[1] has unleashed a torrent of criticism.

Canada Environment

JFK Law LLP

Québec Adopts Bill 81, Amending Most Of The Province's Environmental Laws

Canada Environment

OH

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Competition Bureau Releases Long-Awaited Greenwashing Guidelines

Canada Environment

MT

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Canada's Bill C-5: Continuing The Legislative Trend Of Undermining Indigenous Rights

Canada Environment

JFK Law LLP

Ontario's Species Conservation Act, 2025: Conflicts Will Be Aplenty Regarding Environmental Protection, Major Projects And Indigenous Rights

Canada Environment

JFK Law LLP

Final Guidelines From The Competition Bureau On Environmental Claims In Canada

Canada Environment

BJ

Bennett Jones LLP

Reporting Requirements: Federal Plastics Registry Phase 1

Canada Environment

MT

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Competition Act Private Rights Of Action Take Effect June 20

Canada Environment

BD

Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP

No Time To Waste: What Needs To Change To Get Major Projects And Key Infrastructure Built In Canada?

Canada Environment

OH

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

How Recent Amendments To The Competition Act Raise The Stakes For Environmental Claims (Video)

Canada Environment

GW

Gowling WLG

Le bureau de la concurrence du canada publie ses lignes directrices finales sur les déclarations environnementales

Canada Environment

FF

Fasken (French)

Harassment And Workplace Violence: What Recent Case Law Teaches Us

Canada Employment

BB

BCF Business Law

Tokenized Carbon Credits: How Blockchain Is Revolutionizing Carbon Markets

Canada Technology

OH

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Mental Health Accommodation Policies And Procedures In The Workplace: Practical Guidance For Employers

Canada Employment

BL

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Cash Reserves As Active Business Assets

ML

McMillan LLP

Increasing Common Law Notice Awards In Recent Years

Canada Employment

MT

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

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Environment and Climate Regulation

Environmental Law

From Cumulative Effects To One-Off Authorizations: BC Shifts Its Approach To Project Approvals

On May 29, 2025, two British Columbia acts intended to fast-track project approvals received royal assent. The Infrastructure Projects Act, passed under Bill 15...

Canada Government

C

Cassels

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

This bulletin is Part 1 of our three-part series on proposed changes to Ontario's evolving extended producer responsibility ("EPR") regimes and provides an overview of recently proposed amendments...

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

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

In Part 2 of our three-part series on proposed changes to Ontario's extended producer responsibility ("EPR") regimes, we provide an overview of the recently...

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

New Legislation Alert: Streamlined Approval Processes For Major Projects In B.C. And Canada

Canada Government

BL

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Les ACVM proposent de moderniser et de simplifier les normes d'information dans le secteur minier canadien

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon 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

Bill 5, Protect Ontario By Unleashing Our Economy Act, 2025: Now In Force

Canada Environment

MT

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Ontario's Bill 5: Economic Ambition Meet Constitutional Duty – The Inevitable Delays Arising From The Honour Of The Crown And Environmental Integrity

Canada Government

JFK Law LLP

British Columbia's Bill 15: Expediting Projects At The Expense Of Indigenous Rights And Reconciliation

Canada Government

JFK Law LLP

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EU & Regulatory Law

New Mining Act Regulations For Aboriginal Consultation Proposed

Recently, the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines (the "Ministry") posted proposed regulations pursuant to section 176 of the Mining Act on Ontario’s Environmental Registry (the "EBR").

Canada Environment

DP

DLA Piper

Environment @ Gowlings: August 5, 2011

Notice was given on June 4, 2011 that a Climate Change Plan had been prepared by the Minister of Environment pursuant to Section 5(1) of the "Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act". This was the fifth iteration of the Plan required under the "Act".

Canada Environment

GW

Gowling WLG

A New Crime: Hacking Carbon Credits

In January, much of the European Union carbon trading system was shut down in response to the theft of carbon credits from a Czech carbon registry.

Canada Environment

SL

Siskinds LLP

Willms & Shier Report September-October 2010

Canada Environment

WS

Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP

Real Estate & Urban Development @ Gowlings: June 29, 2010

Canada Real Estate

GW

Gowling WLG

Mission Impossible? Making Sense Of The Copenhagen Accord

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Climate Change @ Gowlings - December 31, 2009

GW

Gowling WLG

Alberta’s Electricity Transmission Debate – An Update On Bill 50

BJ

Bennett Jones LLP

Environment @ Gowlings - November 23, 2009

GW

Gowling WLG

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Climate Change

Québec Adopts Bill 81, Amending Most Of The Province's Environmental Laws

On May 28, 2025, the Québec government officially adopted Bill 81, An Act to amend various provisions relating to the environment (the Act, previously referred to as Bill 81)...

Canada Environment

OH

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Competition Act Private Rights Of Action Take Effect June 20

In recent decades, the growing emphasis on climate change and environmental stewardship has led to a marked rise in 'green' marketing.

Canada Environment

BD

Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP

Clean Economy Investment Tax Credits – A Post-Election Update

The past year included significant milestones for Canada's clean economy tax credits before a period of turbulence and uncertainty caused by the prorogation of Parliament and the recent federal election.

MT

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Competition Bureau Finalizes Greenwashing Enforcement Guidelines

Canada Anti-trust

TL

Torys LLP

Affaire Gaspé Énergies : La Cour d'appel se prononce sur son pouvoir de révision d'une permission d'en appeler et casse le sursis d'application d'une loi environnementale

Canada Litigation

FF

Fasken (French)

Le bureau de la concurrence du canada publie ses lignes directrices finales sur les déclarations environnementales

Canada Environment

FF

Fasken (French)

Environmental Claims And The Competition Act: Competition Bureau Releases Final Greenwashing Enforcement Guidelines

Canada Anti-trust

ML

McMillan LLP

Fast-Tracking National Interest Projects In Canada: Bill C-5 – An Act To Enact The Free Trade And Labour Mobility In Canada Act And The Building Canada Act

Canada Environment

MT

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Accelerated Project Approvals Under The Building Canada Act

Canada Government

C

Cassels

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Clean Air / Pollution

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

Ontario's Bill 5, the "Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025,"[1] has unleashed a torrent of criticism.

Canada Environment

JFK Law LLP

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

The federal government has now launched the reporting platform for Canada's Federal Plastics Registry. With the first reporting deadline looming on September 29, 2025 for the 2024 calendar year...

Canada Environment

ML

McMillan LLP

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

On December 31, 2024, the Government of Canada released the Guide for Reporting to the Federal Plastics Registry – Phase 1 (the Guide).

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

Environmental Law 2024 - Law And Practice

Canada Environment

sL

Lawson Lundell LLP

Canada's Proposals For Implementing A Modernized CEPA

Canada Environment

BL

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Defining Detection: The Fight Over Coverage In Paramount v. Chubb Insurance

Canada Insurance

CC

CLC (Canadian Litigation Counsel)

Interpreting Detection Provisions In Pollution Insurance: Insight From The Court Of Appeal Of Alberta

Canada Insurance

BL

Borden Ladner Gervais 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

Driving Ontario Municipalities Forward (Video)

BL

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Key Takeaways From Our "Corporate Climate Change" Panel Discussion

MT

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Environmental Law Year In Review 2020: Hot Topics (Video)

GW

Gowling WLG

Environmental Crises: Management Of Risks And Liabilities - Video

D

Dentons

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