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Wynne wants to talk political fundraising reform
TORONTO – Premier Kathleen Wynne is asking for a meeting this week with Ontario’s opposition leaders to talk about reforming the province’s political fundraising rules.
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Automobile Accident Benefits Service Project Update
The Safety, Licensing Appeals and Standards Tribunal Ontario (SLASTO) has issued an update on the Automobile Accident Benefits Service Project in regards to the transfer of Ontario’s auto insurance dispute resolution system from the Financial Services Commission of Ontario to the Licence Appeal Tribunal of SLASTO.
Simple blood test can detect evidence of concussions up to a week after injury
“Symptoms of a concussion, or a mild to moderate traumatic brain injury, can be subtle and are often delayed, in many cases by several days,” said Linda Papa, MD, MSC, an emergency medicine physician and NIH funded researcher at Orlando Health and lead author of the study. “This could provide doctors with an important tool for simply and accurately diagnosing those patients, particularly children, and making sure they are treated properly.”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/
Why Fibromyalgia Is Neuropathic
The etiology of fibromyalgia is still largely unknown, but it isn’t as controversial as it used to be.
A decade ago, the chronic rheumatic disease was most often attributed to muscle and ligament problems. Some declared it a psychogenic disorder. (Some still do.) More recently, however, studies have linked fibromyalgia with malfunctioning neurotransmitters, neurochemical imbalances and other neuropathic conditions.
Chronic Pain Injury meets Threshold for Non-pecuniary Damages
Under the Ontario Insurance Act s.267.5(5)(b), a person is eligible to receive non-pecuniary general damages from a motor vehicle accident claim only if they meet the required ‘threshold’ in terms of sustaining “a permanent serious impairment of an important physical, mental and psychological function”. The Act also sets out specific requirements for proving ‘serious’ and ‘permanent’ injury, which includes evidence from at least one physician.
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The Ontario Liberals are trading cash for access. How is that even legal?
Should the Ontario Liberal Party be investigated by police for influence-peddling? That will seem like a far-fetched idea to some. After all, as Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne keeps saying, everything her party and her cabinet members do to raise money conforms with the laws of the province.
Poverty and Social Inequality in Canada: The Debate on Basic Income and Guaranteed Annual Income (GAI)
Both the Trudeau Liberals in Ottawa and the Wynne Government at Queen’s Park in Toronto have been making noises of late on the subject of Basic Income. The last Ontario Budget, in fact, declared an intention to carry out a pilot project in a community still to be announced. While no clear details are yet available, it is very likely that we will soon be dealing with a practical initiative that we will have to respond to. We will have to consider how we view the possibility of the Liberals moving in the direction of a Basic Income system.
‘Poverty can be solved,’ says Chris Mackie, adding the community must ‘pick up the baton’
The mayor’s advisory panel on poverty has called on the city, provincial and federal governments, as well as anti-poverty agencies, to make changes in transit, housing, mental health and addiction, employment, child care, and education, sources say.