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TORONTO – On Halloween Monday my eldest dachsie, 11-year-old Kishka, went under the expert knife of Dr. Wilma DeGraaf at Secord Animal Hospital.

Four hours under anesthetic and 11 teeth fewer later, Kishka was released with two pages of instructions on how to tend to him, two different painkillers (one the doggy version of Percocet) and — drum roll here — antibiotics.

http://www.torontosun.com/2016 /11/03/if-only-medical-system- treated-humans-as-well-as-dogs

In a discussion paper released Thursday, Ontario’s special adviser on basic income suggests topping up incomes of the working poor and replacing the province’s meagre and rule-bound social assistance program with a monthly payment of at least $1,320 for a single person, or about 75 per cent of the poverty line.

https://www.thestar.com/news/c anada/2016/11/03/proposed-basi c-income-pilot-would-provide- monthly-payments-of-least- 1320.html

Ontario’s license appeal tribunal – which this year started hearing auto accident benefits disputes – presents “an opportunity” for auto insurers to “redefine how they provide their services,” an insurance company lawyer said Wednesday, while the retired judge who recommended changing the dispute resolution system told the audience of a panel discussion there is “lots of room for improvement” at LAT.

http://www.canadianunderwriter .ca/insurance/lots-room-improv ement-new-ontario-auto-dispute -resolution-system-judge- cunningham-1004102925/

A chance to hear directly from the President of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board Tom Teahan.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ ottawa/programs/ontariotoday/i njured-workers-confront-wsib-1 .3832957

An injured salt mine worker in Ontario says he has contemplated suicide after a decade-long fight for compensation, a fight that he now may have to wait at least another year before it is resolved.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ ottawa/wsib-appeal-tribunal-wa it-1.3833770

(PRLeap.com) November 3, 2016 – The Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) released its third quarter auto insurance rate approvals and the recommendations in October, and it was shocking for many. The body recommends auto insurance rates should be increased. Shop Insurance Canada says this is a blow to the provinces quest to lower premium rates and will mean increased insurance costs for consumers.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/ pr/3129664

Toronto orthopedic spine and trauma surgeon Dr. Michael Ford says personal injury litigation would be less costly and time-consuming in Ontario if there was a move — as there has been in other countries — toward getting experts from both sides to come to a consensus about the key medical issues.

http://www.advocatedaily.com/m ichael-ford-medical-concensus- reports-would-make-litigation- more-efficient-ford.html

Carly Baetz began to notice something was wrong with her when working on a particularly difficult case. As a staff attorney with a juvenile rights practice at the Legal Aid Society in New York, she was no stranger to heart-wrenching cases of child abuse, but this one really got to her.

http://www.americanbar.stfi.re /publications/youraba/2016/jul y-2016/ptsd-like-symptoms-can- result-from-legal-cases-involv ing-trauma.html?sf=azdjbzp& utm_content=buffer224b6&utm_ medium=social&utm_source= twitter.com&utm_campaign= buffer#ab

We, the undersigned, Citizens of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to implement a National Disability Assistance Program for Canadians with chronic disabilities to fund life-sustaining medical equipment and to provide access to the necessary services to allow them to optimize their functionality over the course of their lifetime.

https://petitions.parl.gc.ca/e n/Petition/Details?Petition=e- 41