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Essential Corporate News – Week ending 11 July 2025
On 1 July 2025, the Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA) published three new board committee guides to accompany the QCA Environmental and Social Guide published in December 2024.
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Canada | Publication | November 29, 2021
The Government of Alberta’s Bill 47: Ensuring Safety and Cutting Red Tape Act, 2020 introduced changes to the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHS Act) that will come into effect December 1, 2021. In this update, we break down the key features of the amendments.
The circumstances leading to the right to refuse work are reduced in scope and limited to situations where serious and immediate threats to the health and safety of a worker are present. Previously, the right to refuse work was available for any dangerous condition that posed a danger to the worker, with no protection against other workers who may be endangered as a result of the refusal to work.
The new provisions regarding disciplinary actions provide OHS officers more authority to dismiss frivolous complaints and ensure complaints are addressed in a timely manner. Where a disciplinary action was taken against a worker, the onus of establishing that such action was taken for legitimate reasons remains on the employer.
Lastly, employers will now have more flexibility in training workers, implementing health and safety programs, and establishing health and safety committees that are tailored to specific workplace needs.
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On 1 July 2025, the Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA) published three new board committee guides to accompany the QCA Environmental and Social Guide published in December 2024.
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In the two years since our last climate litigation update, the prevalence and variety of global climate litigation around the world has continued to increase.
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Selon un rapport conjoint du Bureau du surintendant des institutions financières (BSIF) et de l’Agence de la consommation en matière financière du Canada (ACFC), environ 70 % des institutions financières fédérales prévoient utiliser l’IA d’ici 2026 .
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