How a fight against a Vancouver Island rock quarry became a battle to modernize B.C.’s mining laws
Residents of the Highlands, just outside Victoria, were told that according to the Mines Act...
Many of the largest environmental battles in Canada’s history have been fought in front of a judge and gavel. From the Canadian constitution and international commitments to local bylaws, environmental law is shaping the future of Canada’s wilderness, oceans, suburbs, farmland and cities.
Environmental law is penetrating into the public conversation more now than any other time in living memory. But it can seem dense. (Let’s be honest: it is dense.) Never fear — we bring you dynamic legal experts, thoughtful advocates and Indigenous scholars and knowledge-keepers to make sense of Canada’s changing legal landscape.
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Residents of the Highlands, just outside Victoria, were told that according to the Mines Act...
New research shows biodiversity management in Canada is undertaken through a bewildering array of laws,...
Lawyers say Todsen Design and Construction’s libel case against two individuals and the Qualicum Beach...
An unprecedented wave of lawsuits in the U.S. aim to hold big oil and gas...
Boreal conservation advocates puzzled by Canadian response to proposed legislation on forest product procurement
The Muteshekau Shipu (Magpie River) in Québec will enjoy new protections as Canada joins a...
An effectively planned Canada Water Agency would address the myriad environmental, legal and political issues...
Renewed U.S. focus on emissions reductions, alternative energy and environmental injustice offers a prime opportunity...
Ottawa has ordered Yukon to reassess the impacts of a proposed mine on caribou and...
Every summer, biologist Daniel Schindler walks hundreds of kilometers up and down the Wood River in Alaska, counting red and green sockeye salmon homing to...
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