LSO balks at federation’s standards on disciplinary investigations
The Law Society of Ontario has decided it cannot comply with a national standard to contact lawyers and paralegals every three months if they are the subject of a disciplinary complaint investigation, according to a new report.
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The judicial system can’t withstand political interference
The Canadian justice system is one of the pillars that supports our democracy. The rule of law gives people a legal recourse to hold those in power to account. As the French ecclesiastic, preacher, journalist and political activist Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire said, “Between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, between the strong and the weak, it is freedom that oppresses, and the law that sets free.”
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Doug Ford reverses retroactive funding cuts amid fierce pressure from Toronto
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has reversed this year’s cuts to municipal funding, including child care, public health and EMS, but future cuts will continue as planned.
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‘He was the “Pain Guy” ’: A Toronto physician’s ex-patients share their allegations of sexual abuse
These four women say Dr. Allan Gordon touched them inappropriately when they sought his help – and when they complained to the medical college, it dismissed their cases
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‘I couldn’t believe it’ — why disability claims for mental health are often a struggle
When Dr. Wei-Yi Song filled out the insurance paperwork for a pregnant 28-year-old female patient who, at 34 weeks of gestation, was suffering from depression, he thought her case would be “a slam dunk.”