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Advisory Committee on Open Banking provides update on consumer-directed finance in Canada

Financial Services & Restructuring Communiqué

Overview On January 31, 2020, the Advisory Committee on Open Banking[1] (the “Committee“) released a report on “Consumer-directed finance: the future of financial services” (the “Report“). The Report was in connection with the Committee’s consultation process and recommends the development […]

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Labour Board rules that Foodora couriers can unionize

Labour and Employment Communiqué

In Canadian Union of Postal Workers v Foodora Inc., released on February 25, 2020, the Ontario Labour Relations Board (the “Board”) held that Foodora couriers can unionize under the Labour Relations Act, 1995 (“Act”) on the basis that they are […]

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Des informations qu’une municipalité transmet sur sa réglementation peuvent-elles engager sa responsabilité ?

Construction Newsletter - Quebec

Journal Constructo – 20 février 2020 Il arrive parfois que dans le cadre d’un projet de construction, des échanges surviennent avec une municipalité relativement à la réglementation municipale applicable au projet, et ce, afin d’assurer sa conformité. D’emblée, il importe […]

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Is your business feeling the effects of Coronavirus and rail blockades? There’s a government program for that

Labour and Employment Communiqué

The reverberations of the recent CN railway blockades, which have caused delays in the movement of goods, as well as the impacts of the Coronavirus on the importation of goods from Asia, are being felt by businesses across Canada. If […]

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Failure to cooperate during investigation justifies suspension

Morning Recess Education Law Newsletter

A recent arbitration decision provides insight into what constitutes reasonable discipline in response to a failure by a teacher to participate in an investigation. In Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association v Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board, 2019 CanLII […]

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Hawkins: The oppression remedy, charge backs and condo-wide work

MT Condominium & Strata Brief

Condominium corporations are uniquely placed to encounter collective action problems.  Each condo unit is individually owned, but they share much of the same infrastructure and that infrastructure connects with collectively owned infrastructure. TSCC 1696 encountered one of these situations when […]

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Episode 2: Construction dirt – Where does it go and who regulates it

Morning Commute with Miller Thomson

Listen to Episode 2 of Morning Commute with Miller Thomson. This Environmental episode examines the issues of excess soil and waste from construction projects in Ontario.

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Payments and work changes in Integrated Project Delivery

Breaking Ground: MT Construction Law Western Canada

This series continues our overview of the CCDC 30 Integrated Project Delivery (“IPD”) Contract. The first article explained the unique tools that Integrated Project Delivery contracts provide for realizing the full potential of Building Information Modeling (“BIM”) and other similar […]

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BC Supreme Court hears CBA legal challenge

Breaking Ground: MT Construction Law Western Canada

The Supreme Court of British Columbia heard arguments from February 3 to 7, 2020 from a coalition of British Columbia’s largest construction associations (the “Coalition”) who are challenging the provincial government’s labour framework for the building of public infrastructure projects. […]

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Drip pricing: StubHub enters into $1.3M consent agreement with Competition Bureau

Marketing, Advertising & Product Compliance Communiqué

On February 7, 2020, StubHub Canada Ltd. and StubHub Inc. (collectively “StubHub”) entered into a consent agreement with the Competition Bureau (the “Bureau”) after the Bureau’s investigation concluded that StubHub was advertising unattainable ticket prices on its websites, emails and […]

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