Special Feature
Legal, Insurance and Professional Services
Below are articles from the latest Legal, Insurance and Professional Services Special Feature Newsletter, published October 25, 2019 by the Journal of Commerce.
Feature Articles - Legal, Insurance and Professional Services

Employment agreements a ‘great foundation’ for firms and workers: Expert
Owners of construction companies, big and small, should protect themselves by ha...
Labour

Citing climate change, carriers clamour to comment on code changes
Claiming that climate change losses are hitting their bottom line, insurance com...
Economic

Court ruling resets the playing field for bonding companies
A landmark court decision supporting a construction bonding company’s claims in...
Government

Dispute resolution board use on the rise in Canada
With the movement to very large infrastructure projects, especially public-priva...
Government , Infrastructure
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Plans for Portage and Main in Winnipeg up in the air
Winnipeg is unique in many good ways, but also in another way that most Winnipeg...
Infrastructure

Coventry Homes, former executive hit with lawsuits alleging sexual assault, harassment
One of the largest homebuilders in Edmonton and a prominent executive are being...
Government , OH&S

B.A. Blacktop employee embezzled $1.9 million
When Harold Fraser, retired co-founder of B.A. Blacktop Ltd. died in 2012, emplo...
Government

Industry has a ‘complete void of basic knowledge’ on carbon footprints
Owners, contractors and subs are eager to take meaningful steps to decarbonize t...
Infrastructure

Construction trades included in new category-based immigration policy
OTTAWA — The federal government has announced it is introducing “category-based...
Government , Labour

Fix approvals, start building says Electricity Canada
A new report from Electricity Canada drives home the urgency of expanding Canada...
Infrastructure

Jill of All Trades program gains momentum across North America
Two hundred and seventy female high school students received a hands-on introduc...
Associations

RJC Engineers shakes things up as part of massive tall wood seismic tests
A Canadian engineering company is participating in a landmark research project i...