Natural Resources
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March 19, 2025
Trade investigations announced targeting resin product from China and Pakistan
The Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) is initiating investigations to determine if polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resin originating in or exported from China and Pakistan is being sold at unfair prices in Canada and whether PET resin originating in or exported from China is being subsidized.
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March 17, 2025
Alberta’s top court to hear utilities’ challenge to performance-based regulation plan
Alberta’s top court is set to hear a challenge to a performance-based regulation (PBR) plan for electric utilities on the basis that it does not provide them with a reasonable opportunity to recover capital costs.
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March 17, 2025
Ontario Place ruling raises ‘some very grave concerns,’ lawyer says
Ontario’s highest court has ruled against an advocacy group that launched a constitutional challenge of the provincial government’s redevelopment of Ontario Place, and a lawyer involved in the litigation is saying that the decision leaves businesses across the province — and country — vulnerable.
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March 14, 2025
Carney Sworn as PM, unveils leaner cabinet including Gary Anandasangaree as Justice Minister
Liberal leader Mark Carney has been sworn in as Prime Minister and unveiled a streamlined 24-member cabinet, which includes many of the ministers on the “front line” of the ongoing trade war with the United States.
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March 14, 2025
Oil and gas emissions cap to cut jobs, GDP by 2032: Parliamentary Budget Officer
The Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) has released a new report, Impact Assessment of the Oil and Gas Emissions Cap, finding that by 2032, real gross domestic product (GDP) in Canada will be reduced by 0.4 per cent and nominal GDP will be reduced by $20.5 billion due to the required reduction in upstream oil and gas sector production levels.
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March 13, 2025
B.C. introduces bill to allow cabinet to remove internal trade barriers, respond to tariffs
The B.C. government has introduced legislation empowering the cabinet to remove or amend barriers to interprovincial trade and to impose tolls or fees on non-Canadian commercial vehicles using provincial public infrastructure such as highways in response to the United States’ imposition of tariffs on Canadian goods.
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March 13, 2025
Ontario anti-SLAPP law ‘in desperate need of a makeover’: Court of Appeal judge
An Ontario Court of Appeal judge has criticized laws brought in by the province to protect against so-called strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPPs, calling them poorly drafted, confusing and in need of significant revamp.
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March 12, 2025
Ottawa and Ontario send mixed messages on Canada reopening talks early on free trade deal with U.S.
Accelerating next year’s review of the Canada-U.S-Mexico (CUSMA aka USMCA) free trade agreement is not under discussion with U.S. trade officials, according to several federal Cabinet ministers, but Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are poised to “start a conversation” tomorrow “toward a free trade deal that’s fair for both countries.”
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March 12, 2025
An interlude: Shared facilities agreements from RECO course | Harjot Atwal
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” — Mahatma Gandhi
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March 11, 2025
Ontario reverses 25 per cent electricity surcharge following call with U.S. commerce secretary
A day after announcing a 25 per cent surcharge on Ontario electricity exports to the United States, Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced the province is suspending the added fee following a discussion with U.S secretary of commerce Howard Lutnick.