Employers who withhold the passports or work permits of foreign nationals could soon face hundreds of thousands of dollars in new penalties under legislation being introduced in Ontario today.
Labor Minister Monte McNaughton is tabling an omnibus bill today that includes the protections for migrant workers, expanding the reasons military reservists can take job leave, and requiring more washrooms on construction sites as well as some for women only.
Currently, labor inspectors can levy penalties of $250 for each passport or work permit that is held, but with the proposed changes, that would rise to $100,000.
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With all of the recent bombshell Fox News revelations in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation litigation, there’s a subtle but important point that’s worth emphasizing: rebroadcasting.
That is, as alleged by Dominion, the network re-aired segments pushing false 2020 election claims while knowing those claims were false.
Media law expert Lee Levine told Nicolle on the show Wednesday:One of the most important things that stuck out to me about the new filing, which I had not realized before, was that some of these programs were rebroadcast in their entirety so that between the time of the original broadcast and…
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Crime“In my experience it is unusual for a person to withdraw from a judicial position so soon after being appointed”Published March 01, 2023 • Last updated 2 days ago • 2 minute read
7 CommentsLionel Chartrand discusses a case outside the Edmonton Law Courts in April 2022. Photo by Jonny Wakefield /PostmediaArticle content
An Edmonton defense lawyer recently appointed as a provincial court judge has decided to return to private practice, the provincial government says.Advertisements 2This advertisement has not been loaded yet, but your article continues below.THIS CONTENT…
An elderly Vancouver lawyer has been disbarred by the Law Society of BC and ordered to pay more than $10,000 for misconduct during more than a dozen real estate transactions that could have facilitated money laundering.
A hearing panel of the Law Society Tribunal found that Lubomir Ihor Huculak “failed to make reasonable inquiries of his clients in the face of overwhelming, objectively suspicious circumstances,” according to a news release issued by the law society Wednesday.
The statement notes that Huculak has appealed the decision, and his disbarment may be stayed as a result.
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Mitochondrial replacement therapy, an in vitro fertilization process that can prevent mitochondrial diseases, is a complex and much debated technology that is currently prohibited in the US
Diana Bowman examines this topic in her new book “Reproduction Reborn: How Science, Ethics, and Law Shape Mitochondrial Replacement Therapies.” In it, she brings together experts in medicine, genetics, ethics, law and policy to explore the challenges of mitochondrial replacement therapy, or MRT, and the role countries have in governing reproduction.
Bowman is a professor in Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, associate dean of applied research…
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Jakarta (ANTARA) – BUMN observer from the University of Indonesia, Toto Pranoto, revealed that the BUMN Omnibus Law can improve the performance of BUMN companies.
“With rules that are more succinct but dense in content, then Sisi compliance SOEs can be increased. This means that the monitoring function can be carried out more easily. With this situation,…
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 SPCA is calling on the province to pass a law protecting the health and welfare of farm animals.
The industry currently regulates itself with codes of practice, but the group says that’s not good enough.
A video produced by the Montreal SPCA calls on the government to include farm animals in the province’s Animal Welfare and Safety Act.
“A lot of people believe that animals on farms are actually protected by animal welfare laws that are in existence right now, and that’s not the case. Those laws specifically exclude animals that are on farms,” said Anthony Johnson, the Montreal…