TORONTO – Haytham Markos nearly killed vibrant widow Dorrianne Armstrong Sears after his speeding motorcycle crashed into her on a Yonge St. sidewalk.
She read her victim impact statement Thursday at Markos’ sentencing hearing for dangerous driving causing bodily harm before Justice Ed Morgan.
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TORONTO – The body that regulates lawyers in Ontario has opted for a cap on referral fees rather than an outright ban, and made various changes to advertising rules.
A cap on referral fees was approved in principle at Convocation’s February 23, 2017 meeting. The amount of the cap, rule amendments to implement the policy, and related proposals for additional requirements to increase transparency in marketing and to ensure genuine consent in referral fee arrangements, will be considered by Convocation in the coming months.
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The meeting, made up of lawyers who are elected “benchers,” also accepted recommendations released earlier this weekby the law society’s Advertising & Fee Arrangements Issues Working Group that will give lawyers clearer guidance on what type of marketing breaks the rules — such as citing paid-for awards that are not genuine indicators of quality, or using “sexually offensive” marketing material to lure clients.
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More than 4 per cent of the world’s population lives with depression, and women, youth and the elderly are the most prone to its disabling effects, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
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TORONTO – The number of Canadians registered to purchase medical marijuana from licensed producers has exploded since the federal commercial-access program was introduced almost four years ago, reaching nearly 130,000 by the end of last year, the most recent Heath Canada figures show.
MANITOULIN—The local president of the Manitoulin-North Shore Injured Workers Group (MNSIWG) calls a class action suit being launched (and having been given the go ahead by a court of appeal) against the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) a landmark ruling. The lawsuit claiming unfair benefit cuts imposed on a Brampton man could potentially impact hundreds of workers allegedly denied “full extent of benefits to which they were entitled.”
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Though fully autonomous vehicles aren’t street legal in Canada, insurance companies are already grappling with the idea of how the technology will change the auto insurance industry. After all, who will be held accountable when a self-driving car crashes – the manufacturer, the driver, or both?
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