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As many as 400,000 Canadians suffer from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. But according to a federal review, their condition is all in their minds.

#SickNotWeak aims to create a community that reduces the loneliness and hopelessness of both those who have mental health illnesses and the people who care for them.

Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government has started yet another cycle of consultation on poverty reduction. Since 2008, social justice advocates have participated in a series of policy consultations regarding social assistance reform, only to be disappointed every time by government inaction. Almost a decade of empty discussions about “poverty reduction” has shown that consultation is a diversionary tactic to avoid tackling poverty.

Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals have gutted accident benefits available to injured Ontario drivers and their families. The most dramatic cuts affect those who suffer serious injuries. The protection Ontario drivers and their families once enjoyed, through a basic auto insurance policy, has been stripped away.

In today’s case (Mullens v. Toor) the Plaintiff was injured in a 2012 collision caused by the Defendant.  The Plaintiff suffered physical and psychological injuries and the Court concluded the Plaintiff’s recovery could have been improved had she more diligently followed medical advice.  As a result the Plaintiff’s non-pecuniary assessment of $140,000 was reduced by 50%.

Ontario should establish an independent body to deal with doctors who sexually abuse their patients, but refrain from automatically forwarding victims’ complaints about physicians to police, according to the long-awaited report of a provincial task force that concluded the physicians’ self-regulating college is not doing enough to shield patients from dirty doctors.

“Right now we have no idea what someone on social assistance needs to live,” said Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction director Tom Cooper, explaining that Bill 185 would create a non-partisan commission that would use an evidence-based approach to recommend appropriate social assistance rates based on rising rental, food and utility costs.

“The crazy two-step between the courts and the federal government continues, and as a result there is now an improved range of products that can be sold to medical users, such as cannabis oil — which can be used both topically and orally — and  the restoration of the right of the patient to grow medical marijuana,” he tells AdvocateDaily.com.