Posted: May 26, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 26
Coun. Rick Chiarelli was allowed to participate in the discussion on the integrity commissioner s report about his misconduct in July 2020, but not vote. The councillor said at the time he was advised not to comment because of his legal challenge against the city.(Rogers TV broadcast of council)
Members of Ottawa city council are primarily elected officials who are expected to comment publicly on incidents like the allegations made against Rick Chiarelli, and doing so does not make them biased toward the College ward councillor, the city s lawyer told a judicial review panel Tuesday.
COVID-19 claimed the lives of 23 residents of the Southbridge Roseview long-term care home on Shuniah St. in Thunder Bay (TBNewswatch file)
THUNDER BAY A $160 million class action lawsuit against Southbridge Care Homes was expanded this month to cover all 24 of the company s facilities in Ontario including the Southbridge Roseview nursing home in Thunder Bay.
The Toronto law firm Will Davidson LLP originally filed a claim last spring in connection with a COVID-19 outbreak at Southbridge s Orchard Villa long-term care home in Pickering, where more than 70 residents died. Since that time, there s been lots of other Southbridge homes affected by the pandemic, with infections and deaths, so we ve expanded the Orchard Villa lawsuit to include these other homes, and most recently it was the home in Thunder Bay that had a very severe outbreak, managing partner Gary Will said Monday.