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June 9th, 2017

St. John the Baptist Day – a Primer on Employers’ Obligations

Summer is at hand (almost) and summer vacations as well. Every year at this time, employers become concerned about their obligations in connection with the St. John the Baptist Day National Holiday. The Quebec legislator considers this statutory holiday to be very important and it is governed by a specific statute, namely the National Holiday Act, with stricter […]

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June 8th, 2017

Mining Royalties: Is Quebec so Different?

This article was first published on The Lawyer's Daily website on June 8, 2017. Recently, in Third Eye Capital Corp. v. Dianor Resources Inc., 2016 ONSC 6086, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice rendered a decision that illustrates the importance of carefully drafting and arranging royalty agreements if the intended result is to have the royalty […]

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June 7th, 2017

Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation Will Have a Lot More Teeth as of July 1, 2017

UPDATE: On June 7, in response to broad-based concerns of various stakeholders, the entry into force of Sections 47 to 51 and 55 of CASL relating to the private right of action was suspended in order to allow a parliamentary committee to assess in further details the impacts of those provisions. The goal of this committee […]

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June 6th, 2017

Third Parties’ Role in Enforcing Injunctions: John and Jane Doe, Beware!

The English version was published in the July edition of Canadian Lawyer InHouse magazine. To read the article, click here.

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June 6th, 2017

Bill 102 and Its Impact on the Watercourses Act

Over the last years, the Québec government has undertaken an extensive reform of the Environment Quality Act (hereafter the “EQA”), first in June 2015, by tabling the Green Paper to modernize the environmental authorization scheme under the EQA, followed by Bill 102 in June 2016. Entitled “An Act to amend the Environment Quality Act to […]

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June 5th, 2017

Psychological Harassment, Boon or Bane: How to Interact With the CNESST?

Since the adoption on June 1, 2004 of the provisions of the Labour Standards Act1 aimed at ensuring the right of employees to a workplace free from psychological harassment, what has transpired? What is the proportion of complaints or grievances that have been upheld? What indemnities have been awarded by adjudicators as damages when they have […]