¶ Published Thursday, February 26th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
We’ve been hearing a lot lately about how one should never let a good crisis go to waste. Moving right along, Ontario appears to be following that advice seriously.
On Monday the Ontario government released its proposed Green Energy Act, a sweeping bill that would amend 15 existing provincial statutes. The new Act is incentive-based [...]
¶ Published Wednesday, February 25th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Ontario seems to be taking a lead in consultations aimed at designing a greenhouse gas cap-and-trade system. In December the province released its discussion paper on the issue. Gowlings gives a good breakdown of the details.
A copy of the discussion paper can be found here. Comments will be accepted until March 3, 2009, [...]
¶ Published Wednesday, February 25th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
At the request of a small association of local residents, the Superior Court of Quebec has ordered the City of Sainte-Agathe to “cease any non-treated discharge to the North River sewage ” (translated), a situation that the court awards to the “persistent laxity of the City and the Ministère des Affaires municipales” (MAM) for their tolerance of the [...]
¶ Published Monday, February 23rd at %I:%M %p ∞ In Design & Features, Miscellaneous ∞ No Comments »
We believe lighter, faster and easier is …. better! Despite this common sense approach, too many companies invest in expensive “enterprise” software that they think will solve their problems, they won’t. In fact, these software packages ranging in price from 10 000 $ to over a million dollars usually cause more headaches than they relieve. [...]
¶ Published Wednesday, February 18th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Companies’ scrutiny of their own suppliers is beginning to show signs of improvement.
At an event organized by the Conseil patronal de l’environnement du Quebec, held today, a half dozen presenters – representing private industry (Bell, Desjardins, and Walmart) and government (MSDEP, Loto-Quebec, Public Works Canada) — shared the details of their responsible [...]
¶ Published Monday, February 16th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Announcements, Environment ∞ No Comments »
The NIMONIK Team will be at Booth 324 at the AMERICANA conference at the Palais de Congrès from March 17th to 19th. We will be demoing the product and would like to meet as many of you as possible.
To get a personal tutorial or see how to incorporate your legal register into NIMONIK, schedule an [...]
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The need for speed is in all of us. Last week, we made significant performance improvements. This was done by removing data processing bottlenecks one-by-one, a long process but in pure figures, significant speed improvements were achieved. We hope that this will translate to an improved and smoother experience for our users. Let us know if you [...]
¶ Published Sunday, February 15th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Environment ∞ No Comments »
Even though the global economic downturn has effectively eliminated the market for many recycled materials (paper, plastics and glass), provinces in Canada have been pushing ahead with EPR, or Stewardship, programs.
Sure EPR is catchy, but what does it mean? Extended Producer Responsibility makes the producer (manufacturer, distributor, importer) responsible for the life-cycle management of their [...]
¶ Published Wednesday, February 11th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Design & Features ∞ No Comments »
A major challenge with ISO 14001:2004 and equivalent systems is legal registers. In our experience, we have seen registers in various formats and with different content, but one common thread is their difficulty to update them. When companies undergo ISO 14001 audits, they rush to update their legal registers – often using consultants or lawyers at [...]
¶ Published Friday, February 6th at %I:%M %p ∞ In Announcements, Design & Features, Legal Issues ∞ No Comments »
In the next few weeks, we will be unveiling a new feature: Municipal Tracking. We will offer bulletins (plain language updates) and links to municipal by-laws. Only Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver will include Topics (detailed guidance text) on municipal by-laws, other municipalities will only have updates. As such, municipalities are priced significantly lower than provinces: [...]
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