Cars cruised through Montreal streets on Saturday denouncing Quebec’s French-language law known as Bill 96.
“We’re doing it because we have to save English Montreal,” said organizer Mario Napolitano. “Bill 96 will destroy the city.”
Napolitano is part of the group Bridging Ethnic Communities, a non-profit organization that “unites Quebecers of all languages, ages, and cultures while opposing discrimination, racism and violation of freedoms imposed by the provincial government through its implementation of unreasonable language laws,” according to its website.
Napolitano said the motorcade would respect traffic laws and that the protests would be peaceful.
Bill 96 is being challenged…
Fire knows no borders in Canada — but firefighters’ workplace compensation for some types of cancer does. A new federal law could change that.
How provinces compensate firefighters for workplace-related cancers — the most deadly occupational risk they face — varies widely.
Provincial workplace safety boards link different cancers to firefighting, making it harder for some firefighters to access compensation.
“To have this inequality of coverage for firefighters when they get diagnosed with those illnesses is a real disservice to those who serve the community,” said Neil McMillan, director of science and research at the Occupational Health, Safety and Medicine…
Donald Trump’s ex-attorney Michael Cohen plans to call one of the former president’s sons as a witness in an upcoming trial over whether Trump’s company owes up to $1.3 million in legal fees to Cohen, his attorneys said Friday.
Cohen, who originally sued the Trump Organization in March 2019, wants the Trump Organization to pay his fees stemming from Cohen’s defense of Trump and himself during investigations in 2017 and 2018, and during roughly 20 meetings with the Manhattan district attorney and a grand jury before Trump was indicted in March.
An attorney for Cohen said in court Friday that…
The United States Department of Labor has reached an agreement with a food company after two children were discovered operating meat-processing equipment, in violation of federal law.
The agreement, announced on Friday, is the latest in the department’s crackdown on child labor violations, which have surged in recent years, as several states move to loosen workplace protections for youths.
“The Department of Labor and the Biden-Harris administration see child labor as a scourge in this country and will not tolerate violations of child labor laws,” Solicitor of Labor Seema Nanda said in Friday’s press release, underscoring President Joe Biden and…
Anti-vaccine doctor’s fans flood court, claiming to be ‘common-law grand jury’ in his $66.6M lawsuit
Room 31 at the Vancouver law courts is normally a quiet, somewhat boring place, where lawyers present brief arguments on procedural questions and spectators rarely present.
But Friday morning was different. As a clerk attempted to organize a long list of matters on the docket, about two dozen supporters of anti-vaccine activist Daniel Nagase flooded into the courtroom and declared himself a “common-law grand jury under the Magna Carta.”
Members of the crowd, some wearing shirts reading “Purebloods Stand Together,” took turns reading out a statement charging a government lawyer with obstruction of justice for attempting to have Nagase’s $66.6-million…
A Canadian court has recently ruled that a thumbs-up emoji (👍🏽) sent as a text message can be interpreted as consent to a contract – in what is being seen as an unusual case, with courts deciding on the meaning of emojis that are now liberally used in daily online conversations.
The case here involved people from two companies, South West Terminal Ltd. (SWT) and Achter Land & Cattle Ltd., who had done business with each other in the past. SWT sued Achter, a farming company, for a breach of contract and an alleged failure on their part to deliver…
With heat-related illness on the rise amid record-breaking temperatures across the country, some Canadian cities are adopting by-laws that require landlords to keep their buildings below a maximum temperature.In Manitoba, organizations say that kind of regulation would get the cold shoulder.
“Conceptually, it’s extremely important, we all want to do what’s best,” Avrom Charach, spokesperson for the Professional Property Manager’s Association, said about keeping tenants cool. “Practically, sometimes it’s difficult.”
Shared Health reports 33 people went to hospitals with heat-related illnesses from June 1st to July 4th, up from just 18 last year. However, the city has by-laws to…
The Archbishop of Sydney voices strong criticism against a proposed legislation bringing down the age limit for voluntary assisted dying to 14 in the Australian Capital Territory.By Vatican News staff reporter
Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney has warned that a new legal framework considered by the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) allows for children as young as 14 to receive voluntary assisted dying (VAD) could see euthanasia become available to “anyone that wants it”.
Voluntary assisted dying in Australia
Voluntary assisted dying was introduced in the Australian state on January 31 2023, following South Australia, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania and more…