Blog posted by Rizwan Khan, Counsel on August 13, 2013 In my previous post, “Ontario’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program – Road Transportation”, I touched on how the Provincial government’s failure to address road transportation in its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Program meant that it was…
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' Blog posted by Richard D. Lindgren, CELA Counsel on June 25, 2013 On the first anniversary of its untimely demise on July 6, 2012, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 1992 (CEAA 1992) is being remembered by environmentalists as an important attempt to…
Reprint (Ontario Bar Association - Environews - January, 2009) by Kaitlyn Mitchell The Environmental Bill of Rights, 1993 (“EBR”) (1) was enacted to protect the environment by giving Ontario residents meaningful ways in which to participate in environmentally significant government…
Canadian municipalities have the power to restrict pesticide use thanks to the Supreme Court and Hudson, Quebec By Kathleen Cooper, Senior Researcher and Theresa McClenaghan, Executive Director and Counsel, CELA. Originally published in Alternatives Journal, 31:2 (23-25) 2005. When the…
Blog posted by Kathleen Cooper, CELA Senior Researcher From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court, and Back Again When the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously decided, in June of 2001, that the small community of Hudson, Quebec had the legal…
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(Originally published in Intervenor, the CELA newsletter until 2004.) Intervenor: vol. 27, no. 1 - 2, January - June 2002 By Linda Pim, Kathleen Cooper and Karyn Keenan The following table is excerpted from the web site of Ontario MoE…
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