Tag Archives: Justice

MONTREAL - Ontario and New Brunswick are openly courting Quebec doctors upset over a recent provincial law that imposes a new method of remuneration on physicians. While Premier Franois Legault critic...

OTTAWA - An Ontario court judge has ruled a $510-million legal fee for lawyers who worked on a First Nations treaty rights case was unreasonable - and has ordered the fee scaled back to $23 million. "...

OTTAWA - Former Conservative senator Don Meredith has been found not guilty of sexual assault and criminal harassment. Meredith expressed relief Wednesday following the Ontario Superior Court verdict ...

MONTREAL - An Algonquin First Nation has filed a title claim in Quebec Superior Court over large swaths of territory across the west of the province in an effort to address what it described as histor...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba's Opposition Progressive Conservatives are calling for mandatory public consultations and buffer zones around the NDP government's proposed detention centres for people intoxicated...

QUBEC - Medical specialists in Quebec are planning a legal challenge to a recent law that imposes a new method of remuneration on physicians, which they say violates individual freedoms. The bill, whi...

REGINA - Regina's police chief has been fired following a misconduct investigation involving inappropriate text messages, the city's mayor announced Tuesday. Chad Bachynski told reporters the probe fo...

The Alberta government on Monday invoked the notwithstanding clause in legislation ordering 51,000 striking teachers back to work. Premier Danielle Smith said it was needed because of the size of the ...

TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford calls a fixed election date rule his government is proposing to get rid of "a fake law." Attorney General Doug Downey announced Monday that the government intends t...

WASHINGTON - Victor Owen Schwartz started a business importing wine and spirits to the United States with his mother nearly 40 years ago. His company VOS Selections, which he runs with his daughter, s...