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Document(s) published by this organization: 27
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Toby Kruger; Lawson Lundell LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 30, 2012, previously published on May 23, 2012 On May 10, 2012, Marko Vesely and Toby Kruger appeared at the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (“BCCLA”) in A.B. by her Litigation Guardian, C.D., v Bragg Communications.
| | Cumulative Impacts on Treaty Rights: Update on the Beaver Lake Cree Nation Litigation
JoAnn P. Jamieson, John M. Olynyk; Lawson Lundell LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 15, 2012, previously published on May 14, 2012 In May, 2008, the Beaver Lake Cree Nation (“BLCN”) filed a lawsuit in the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench against the governments of Canada and Alberta (lameman v. Alberta) claiming that the cumulative impacts of development within their core traditional territory had left them...
| | What Does the ERCB’s Decision in Kallisto Mean for Hydraulic Fracturing?
JoAnn P. Jamieson, William M. Laurin; Lawson Lundell LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 9, 2012, previously published on May 8, 2012 In a recent contest before the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board between the operator of a natural gas storage reservoir and a producer seeking to drill and frack a Basal Quartz vertical oil well in the vicinity of the storage reservoir, the ERCB granted the producer its well licence,...
| | Environmental Assessment Streamlining Federal Government Initiatives
Brad Armstrong, Michelle L. Forrieter, JoAnn P. Jamieson; Lawson Lundell LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 26, 2012, previously published on April 20, 2012 On April 17, 2012 the federal government announced its Plan For Responsible Resource Development, setting out further details on steps to implement proposals for streamlining the federal environmental assessment (“EA”) process. This Plan follows on the heels of the federal budget and...
|  | 2012 Federal Budget: Changes to the Thin-Capitalization Rules
Alexander Coombes, Leonard Glass, Ben Heller; Lawson Lundell LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 13, 2012, previously published on April 2012 Canadian tax law, like virtually all developed taxation systems, contains a series of rules that are designed to limit the deduction of interest expense on debt obligations owing from a Canadian entity to non-residents of Canada within corporate groups. These rules are referred to as the...
| | Environmental Assessment - Improving the Process
Brad Armstrong, Christine J.S. Kowbel, Toby Kruger; Lawson Lundell LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 3, 2012, previously published on March 23, 2012 On March 13, 2012, the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development issued recommendationsfor improving the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) process.
| | Employee Life and Health Trusts and Health and Welfare Trusts
Alexander Coombes; Lawson Lundell LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 3, 2012, previously published on March 9, 2012 Employers and Benefit Plan Administrators are faced with a relatively new choice in determining the appropriate vehicle for providing certain employee benefits: should benefits be structured through an Employee Life and Health Trust (“ELTH”) or the historic Health and Welfare Trust...
| | Canadian Tax Rates, Not Quite a Tax Haven
Leonard Glass; Lawson Lundell LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 3, 2012, previously published on March 2012 Canada has not historically been known for its favourable levels of taxation. However, in the course of the past decade, corporate tax rates have been steadily reduced with the result that favourable rates of taxation are incurred by corporations with business income in Canada. Indeed, it is...
| | Insubordination and Just Cause Dismissal: Considerations for Employers
Nicole K. Skuggedal; Lawson Lundell LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 5, 2012 When does employee conduct cross the line from criticism to insubordination? Specifically, when does such conduct amount to just cause for summary dismissal in a non-union workplace?
| | How to Craft Computer Policies on Personal Emails and Surfing
Nicole K. Skuggedal; Lawson Lundell LLP;
Legal Alert/Article January 5, 2012, previously published by Small Business Profit Guide on December 2011 This article discusses employee privacy rights for information stored on work computers and the importance of adopting a well-conceived policy on computer usage. The best way to protect your company from being found in violation of employee privacy is to adopt a well-conceived policy on computer...
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