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Lawson Lundell LLP | Canada | 10 Jan 2014
FortisBC is the dominant natural gas service provider in British Columbia, serving nearly a million customers in over 125 communities in the province…
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Lawson Lundell LLP | Canada | 8 Jan 2014
The Province recently approved amendments to the Water Regulation to eliminate minor but inconvenient steps in the permitting process. BC Regulation…
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Lawson Lundell LLP | Canada | 20 Dec 2013
On December 18, 2013, the Alberta Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner ordered an employer to provide training to its staff on…
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Lawson Lundell LLP | Canada | 17 Dec 2013
On December 13, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in IBM Canada Limited v. Waterman, 2013 SCC 70. The decision clarifies that…
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Lawson Lundell LLP | Canada | 9 Dec 2013
Unlike the United States, Canada does not have a national securities regulator. In Canada, each province regulates securities through its own…
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Lawson Lundell LLP | Canada | 3 Dec 2013
On November 28, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada released one decision in two appeals concerning a taxpayer's ability to…
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Lawson Lundell LLP | Canada | 24 Nov 2013
On November 25, 2013, significant changes to the Fisheries Act come into force. The most significant, and most controversial, change in the…
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Lawson Lundell LLP | Canada | 22 Nov 2013
The public comment period on the Province's proposed new Water Sustainability Act has now closed. With well over 400 submissions, interest in the new…
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Lawson Lundell LLP | Canada | 18 Nov 2013
The Supreme Court of Canada today issued its much anticipated decision in Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v. United Food and…
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Lawson Lundell LLP | Canada | 13 Nov 2013
In several earlier posts I discussed a B.C. Supreme Court decision involving problem strata owners who had, for years, defied efforts by the strata…