Posts by Tyler Omichinski

Importing Hudbay Into Environmental Law Choc v Hudbay1 has received a great deal of media attention. The decision, from the Ontario Superior Court, holds that abuses by companies in other countries can be tried in Canada under certain, specific, circumstances. This comes after a series of alleged abuses at the Fenix location in Guatemala through a corporate subsidiary of the Hudbay company. Newspapers have been keen to point out that...

By Tyler Omichinski Under the Canadian regime, an individual receives employment insurance (EI) when they find themselves unemployed under a complex criterion that we will not cover here. The previous Ministerial Declaration of this round of negotiations took place in 2005. A group of nations, calling themselves “Friends of Fish”,[1] is calling for a reduction in subsidies for fishing around the world on the grounds that subsidies...

Between Sea Shepard v Cetacean and the recent accusations by Russia that Greenpeace protestors are pirates, it appears to be in vogue to accuse environmentalist groups of being pirates due to their activities on the sea. Combined with other measures to push environmental protests to the periphery of what is a part of accepted society leads to an unfortunate precedent. This piece will go over the areas that countries are attempting to...