A BC ferry officer, convicted last month of two charges of criminal negligence causing death in relation to the sinking of a passenger ferry off the British Columbia coast 7 years ago, was sentenced to four years in prison and banned from operating vessels for 10 years. The officer is appealing his conviction and sentence….
The Ontario legislature added “gender identity” and “gender expression” as prohibited grounds of discrimination to the Human Rights Code (the “Code”) in the summer of 2012. The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (“HRTO”) had previously recognized discrimination against transgendered-people to be prohibited on the basis of “sex”, thus theCode amendments were seen by many to be largely symbolic…
The professional engineer who last inspected and approved the roof and parking structure at the centre of last summer’s Elliot Lake mall collapse has been charged under Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act(OHSA). The Canadian Press is reporting that Ontario’s Ministry of Labour has charged the Sault Ste Marie-based engineer with two counts under the OHSA:…
Confused about the SCC’s Sun Indalex decision? Heenan Blaikie can help. Our Insolvency and Pensions groups have come together and published a detailed analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision, and its possible future impacts on both pensions and corporate financing. Read it here. Then on Wednesday, March 6, 2013, join Mark Newton online or by…
“Sometimes a swimming pool is just a swimming pool.” So says the Ontario Court of Appeal in handing down its highly anticipated decision in Blue Mountain Resorts Limited v. Ontario (The Ministry of Labour and The Ontario Labour Relations Board), which overturns the decisions of the Ontario Divisional Court and the Ontario Labour Relations Board…