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Ontario’s former privacy commissioner says human rights are at stake if Hamilton city council debates letting residents and businesses point their security cameras at the street.
Privacy expert Ann Cavoukian says the city’s current bylaw, which only lets people point cameras at their own property, is a good one.
Read more at CBC News
A Moncton pharmacist has been fined and reprimanded by the New Brunswick College of Pharmacists after someone on his staff made a dispensing error that led to the death of a patient in long-term care.
Although he didn’t make the error himself, Peter Ford, manager of Ford’s Family Pharmacy & Wellness Centre, was fined $5,000 for dispensing baclofen suspension, a muscle relaxant, at five times the concentration on the label.
Read more at CBC News
More than 80 complaints have now been received against two former RCMP doctors under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct spanning decades, police in Ontario and Nova Scotia say.
Toronto police have logged more than 20 complaints against a retired doctor in the Mounties’ Ontario division, while Halifax police have received “in excess of 60 complaints” against a former Nova Scotia doctor.
Read more at CBC News
Two Canadian law firms have filed a $1.1-billion class-action lawsuit on behalf of former patients of government-run “Indian hospitals,” which comprised a decades-long segregated health care system now marred by allegations of widespread mistreatment and abuse, CBC News has learned.
The lawsuit focuses on 29 segregated hospitals operated across the country by the federal government between 1945 and the early 1980s. Researchers say thousands of Indigenous patients may have been admitted to the institutions during that four-decade span.
Read more at CBC News
Some foreign investors, particularly those from China, are taking advantage of Canadian loopholes to become ghost immigrants, according to David Lesperance, a tax and immigration consultant with Lesperance & Associates.
Lesperance cites one recent judge’s decision from a lawsuit in which the judge said Chinese millionaire Guoqing Fu bought multiple multi-million-dollar homes in Canada while claiming just $97 in worldwide income on his taxes. The judge’s 600-page ruling in the case was posted online earlier this month.
Read more at CTV News
Two Toronto police officers who allegedly ingested marijuana edibles, hallucinated and called for help while on duty Sunday have been suspended, CBC News has learned.
Both officers are under investigation by the force’s professional standards unit following an incident that happened Sunday, according to Mark Pugash, a spokesperson for Toronto Police Service.
Read more at CBC News
In an unprecedented move, Health Minister Eric Hoskins is probing how Ontario’s medical regulator handled complaints against physicians in the mid-1990s, in the wake of a Star investigation about women accusing a prominent Brampton physician of groping them during a period stretching back 40 years.
Read more at Toronto Star
“Providing benefits not burdens” is how former Health Minister, Judy LaMarsh once described the vision for disability policy in Canada.
Unfortunately, this vision is not a reality when it comes to one of the main benefits open to Canadians with disability: the federal Disability Tax Credit (DTC.) Administered by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), the DTC is designed to recognize some of the higher costs faced by people with severe disabilities and their caregivers.
Read more at Huffington Post
There’s a way to pump millions of dollars into Ontario’s health-care system without raising taxes. All it requires is that the province take the abuse of its public drug plans more seriously.
Karen Voin, who works in fraud prevention for the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association, says the industry believes that between 2 and 10 per cent of all health-care dollars are lost to fraud.
Read more at TVO
They are out there. They walk among us. They even look and sound like us. They are in our workplaces and communities, and they may even be in our families. They are U.S. citizens, living in Canada.
More than one million U.S. citizens, including dual citizens, are happy to call Canada home. They enjoy living here, but if you talk to them about tax issues, they become anxious, angry and fearful.
Read more at The Globe and Mail