TORONTO, Jan. 23, 2015 /CNW/ – Joseph Campisi, lawyer and advocate, is launching a constitutional challenge in the Ontario Superior Courts. Mr. Campisi is seeking a declaration from the courts that parts of the legislation that were recently passed by the Liberal Government are discriminatory and unconstitutional and should be inoperative.
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FAIR submission to 2015 Pre-budget Consultation
Respectfully, we cannot have a system where consumers are forced to buy a product that promises services that are delivered only half of the time and that downloads indiscriminately to our public supports while causing chaos in our court systems. All of these actions have a price to the taxpayer and should be addressed.
How to clean up the inconvenient stench in Ontario politics: Cohn
For a cool $1,000, the main lobby group for Ontario’s long-term care operators is offering special access to the province’s minister of health and long-term care — an “exclusive event” with Dr. Eric Hoskins, who controls a $52-billion budget.
Lawyers win exemptions from money-laundering law
The Supreme Court has declared sections of a federal anti-terrorism and money-laundering law to be unconstitutional, concluding a legal battle seen by Canada’s lawyers as a test of their profession’s independence.
Hundreds of ODSP workers rally across Ontario to protest SAMS breakdown
“It’s painfully obvious: SAMS has introduced chaos into Ontario’s social assistance system placing an incredible amount of pressure on frontline staff and depriving social assistance recipients of essential income, employment and medical supports,” Ontario Public Service Employees Union President Warren (Smokey) Thomas told a crowd of ODSP workers and supporters in downtown Toronto today.
Peel Region cop convicted in car-insurance scam
Judge rules that 23-year veteran Const. Carlton Watson was paid to provide accident reports that passed off bogus car crashes to collect more than $1 million.
Guest Column: Ontario’s doctors are scapegoats for health woes
Like most of my colleagues, I didn’t enter the field of medicine to become rich and famous. I entered medical school for one reason and one reason only – I wanted to help people. Unfortunately, the Liberal government here in Ontario is making it harder and harder for me to do so. That’s because after a year of negotiating with the Ontario Medical Association, the government has decided to impose a deal on doctors – reducing fees significantly – and cutting some $580 million from our healthcare budget.
http://blogs.windsorstar.com/opinion/guest-column-ontarios-doctors-are-scapegoats-for-health-woes
FINTRAC’s powers to examine lawyers’ records struck down by Supreme Court of Canada
A law giving the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) the power examine certain firm’s records and search through their computers no longer applies to documents in the possession of legal counsel or in law offices premises, the Supreme Court of Canada announced Friday.
Chronic fatigue is real, serious and needs a new name, panel says
“The committee recommends that this disorder be renamed ‘systemic exertion intolerance disease’ (SEID),” the panel of experts said. “SEID should replace myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome for patients who meet the criteria set forth in this report.”
http://www.today.com/health/chronic-fatigue-syndrome-real-dont-call-it-panel-says-2D80484902
Injury Law and the Legal Concept of “Causation”: When an accident and an injury aren’t enough
One source of the confusion is a factual question whether the relation between the Defendant’s breach of duty or negligence and the Plaintiff’s injury is one of cause and effect pursuant to scientific or objective standards. If such a casual relationship does NOT exist, that puts the Plaintiff’s case to an END. No policy can be strong enough to warrant the imposition of liability for loss to which a Defendant did not cause, or contribute to