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Joe Canada!
When innovation meets the law, the results are often surprising. We in Seattle are confronting this as ride services like Lyft compete with a regulated taxi industry. Now consider Pirate Joe’s, a business located in the upscale Kitsilano neighborhood of Vancouver, B.C.. I will let them describe their business model in their own words: Pirate...
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Train Explosion Drives Federal Railroad Administration to Issue New Regulations Impacting the Transportation of Petroleum Products
On August 2, 2013 the Federal Railroad Administration (“FRA”) released Emergency Order No. 28, Notice No. 1 and Safety Advisory 2013-06 in response to the July 2013 tragedy in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada where a cargo train derailed, exploding portions of the 72 cars of petroleum crude oil it carried. The explosion killed 47 people and...
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Canada Proposes Single Food Safety Inspection Model
In May 2012, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) published a report called The Improved Food Inspection Model: The Case for Change which outlined the agency’s current approach to food inspection, the context for a new food inspection approach, and the proposed components of an improved food inspection model. The report explains that when CFIA was first established...
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TerraChoice Issues Timely 2010 Greenwashing Report
Just a few weeks after the Federal Trade Commission unveiled its proposed new Green Guides for public comment, environmental consulting firm TerraChoice chimes in with its 2010 report, “Sins of Greenwashing – Home and Family Edition.” In our increasingly green economy, TerraChoice makes a couple unsurprising, if not disappointing, findings. First, using the same survey...
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Maple Leaf Foods: A Case Study in the Persistence of Memory
Maple Leaf Foods is Canada’s largest food processor, and as the name implies, it traces its history a long way with our neighbor to the north. It has always prided itself on its food safety procedures. Last year, as was widely reported, more than 20 people all across Canada died from listeriosis traced to one...
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“Canada is Next”
Anyone interested in trends in cross-border mass-torts litigation and the nightmare this is becoming should read a recent article in Bloomberg Law Reports entitled “Brave New World: The Dawn of Hyper-Complex Litigation” In the article, appears the following: “The Canadian Double-Down” “At a January 2008 products liability symposium, a well-regarded New York City plaintiffs’ attorney...