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Canada Law Articles in English - (November 04, 2008)

Climate Change Disclosure Heats Up

Ms Patricia Koval - Torys LLP

What public companies are, and are not, disclosing about their climate change risks and opportunities is ...... Securities regulators in Ontario and Alberta are scrutinizing environmental disclosure in general, and institutional investors are engaging in discussions with them about climate risk. In the United States, ...

Canada Law Articles in English - (February 17, 2008)

Reflections On The Canadian Merger Review Process: Time For Reform?

Mr Omar Wakil - Torys LLP

Omar Wakil is a partner and Sue-Anne Fox is an associate in the Competition and Antitrust Group at Torys LLP in ......TRODUCTION Legislative flexibility coupled with pragmatic enforcement by the Competition Bureau (the Bureau) has resulted in ...

Canada Law Articles in English - (October 22, 2004)

e-Gov Bulletin - October 2004

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

... access and input geographical information through the Internet. Several projects are developing ...... Another will provide all Saskatchewan government departments and agencies with Web access to the province's cadastral, or property, data. ...

Canadian-American Public Policy - Nbr. 2006, January 2006

Too close? Too far? Just right? False dichotomies and Canada-US policy making.

INTRODUCTION Are Canada and the United States getting closer, or farther apart? ...... On the other hand, get too far away and the national ...... But how close is too close? How far away is too far away? Do we have an accurate "close-ometer?" Where do we draw the line between cordiality and chumminess, ...

Canadian-American Public Policy - Nbr. 2005, January 2005

Federalism matters: welfare reform and the inter-governmental balance of power in Canada and the United States.

"(We) believe that the restrictions attached by the federal government ......" Finance Minister Paul Martin, 1995 Budget Speech (1) "Perhaps the fact that is most important to me personally, by ...

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice - Vol. 50 Nbr. 2, April 2008

Student and non-student perceptions and awareness of identity theft.

Introduction "I feel completely violated"--this phrase is commonly heard from those who have experienced identity theft and then had their personal information used to ...... One telephone survey of 1,005 adult Canadians, conducted by Environics Research Group, found that almost 6 in 10 Canadians carry their SIN card, even though 81% of the respondents ...

Canada Law Articles in English - (November 26, 2008)

Energy @ Gowlings - November 24, 2008

Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

... - Tom Brett Jurisdiction Over the Nova Gas System - Alan ......COND NUCLEAR FACILITY IN ONTARIO By Michael Morrison Bruce Power has announced that it will conduct an Environmental Assessment (EA) as it considers building a second nuclear facility The proposed 800 hectare site for the new facility ...

Canadian-American Public Policy - Nbr. 2001, April 2001

The 1999 Pacific Salmon Agreement: A Sustainable Solution?

I. INTRODUCTION When Canada and the United States signed the Pacific Salmon ......, and blame-laying that had prevailed over the previous six years. The agreement does not ...... management regimes, contained in an annex to the treaty, with new longer-term arrangements. The ...

University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review - Vol. 67 Nbr. 1, January 2009

Fixing what ain't broke: in defence of Canadian poison pill regulation.

Abstract Two and a half decades ago, Martin Lipton revolutionized corporate law by inventing the "poison pill"--a shareholder rights plan which ...... Demonized by some as a device that could preclude shareholder choice and forever entrench inefficient management, and exalted by others as a panacea against the destructive activities of corporate raiders, the ...