Canada’s climate-concerned youth are taking their voices from the streets to the courts. Last week, 15 youths between the ages of 10 and 19, filed a lawsuit against the Canadian government over what they deem insufficient protection from climate change. The David Suzuki Foundation, the Pacific Centre for Environmental Law and Litigation
Paul Chung, a 21-year-old university student from Langley, BC, is sueing the government of British Columbia because they delayed providing an expensive drug that, he believes, would have saved him from permanent disablement. Chung says that the Ministry of Health only provided him with coverage for the $750,000-a-year drug, Soliris, after a
After years of battle, taxi companies seem to have given up on fighting Uber. But that doesn’t mean the war is over. Now, Toronto taxi owners and operators are suing the City for failing to protect them as Uber established its stronghold in the market. They allege that the value of
Finally a demand for accountability. Yesterday, the British Columbia government filed a lawsuit against opioid manufacturers for their role in spurring a crisis that had claimed almost 4,000 lives last year. B.C.’s lawsuit is the first one filed by a government in Canada. The class-action suit alleges that manufacturers of opioid
It turns out it’s not such a “good life” for employees at a popular Canadian fitness chain. As The Toronto Star reports, GoodLife Fitness is in some hot water. According to a new $60 million class-action lawsuit, the gym chain has “systematically failed” to properly compensate thousands of employees across
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