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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional...

AMMAN — The Ministry of Education on Thursday launched the second phase of the Accelerating Access to Education Initiative (AAI). Minister of Education Wajih Oais, during the ceremony, provided an update on the progress of the ministry’s plan for the AAI, commending the continuation of donors’ financial support for the 2021/2022 scholastic year.

As the clock ticks, Alexandra and Joe Gasser are desperately fighting to get access to...

Congressman Mike Garcia, R-Santa Clarita, recently sponsored the bipartisan Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS ACT, ACT for ALS, H.R. 3537.

May 26, 2021 ACT for ALS Act endorsed by I AM ALS, ALS Association and Muscular Dystrophy Association WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), co-chair of the Senate ALS Caucus, and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), along with U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) and Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) reintroduced the bipartisan, bicameral  Accelerating Access to Critical Therapies for ALS Act (ACT for ALS). This legislation would create the infrastructure necessary to fund ...

Rudy Mezzetta Estate practitioners are applauding an Ontario government proposal to provide courts with the power to save wills that might otherwise be found invalid due to technical errors — a power that already exists in the majority of Canadian jurisdictions. When a will is deemed invalid, estate property is distributed according to the intestacy rules found in a province’s estate act, rather than as the deceased may have intended. In all provinces except Ontario and Newfoundland and Lab...

Rudy Mezzetta Estate practitioners are applauding an Ontario government proposal to provide courts with the power to save wills that might otherwise be found invalid due to technical errors — a power that already exists in the majority of Canadian jurisdictions. When a will is deemed invalid, estate property is distributed according to the intestacy rules found in a province’s estate act, rather than as the deceased may have intended. In all provinces except Ontario and Newfoundland and Lab...

Summary The Government of Ontario recently introduced legislation that proposes to combine an existing cluster of five land and environmental tribunals into a single entity called the Ontario Land Tribunal (OLT). The OLT will merge the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT), the Environmental Review Tribunal (ERT), the Conservation Review Board, the Mining and Lands Tribunal, and the Board of Negotiation. Bill 245, the Bill 245") is an omnibus bill that includes the proposed enactment of a new ...

By Chandra Vikash*    We live in a globalized and dominantly urbanized society where 99% of all humans are both vulnerable and disadvantaged and 100% of them face extinction within 2-3 decades if the present self-destructive world order with fatal flaws, continues any further.  Few such are a. the mass private ownership of the automobile b. artificial air-conditioning c. piped water and water pollution d. piped electricity and e. light and electro-magnetic fog pollution. To illustrate, more...

On February 22, 2021, the Attorney General for Ontario tabled Bill 245, Accelerating Access to Justice Act, 2021, which has now received Second Reading.