Newfoundland Loses Latest Round Against AbitibiBowater Inc.
Newfoundland has failed in its latest effort to compel AbitibiBowater Inc. to clean up industrial sites that the company once owned and operated in the province. The Quebec Court of...
Newfoundland has failed in its latest effort to compel AbitibiBowater Inc. to clean up industrial sites that the company once owned and operated in the province. The Quebec Court of...
Last week marked a pivotal turning point in the development of Aboriginal law and the demarcation of federal-provincial jurisdiction. For the first time ever, the SCC was faced with the...
On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) released its judgment on MiningWatch Canada v Canada (Fisheries and Oceans), [2010] 1 SCR 6 [MiningWatch]. MiningWatch deals with the level...
In Friends of the Oldman River Society v. Canada, [1992] 1 S.C.R. 3, Justice LaForest wrote that an “[e]nvironmental impact assessment is, in its simplest form, a planning tool that...