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Ontario case one of four class actions across Canada targeting opioid manufacturers and suppliers

Courts across Canada have ruled solitary confinement unconstitutional

The judge overseeing a proposed $350-million dollar lawsuit against the City of Thunder Bay has indicated it will move through the courts as a class-action. The case revolves around a series of pinhole leaks that sprung out of people's copper pipes and flooded hundreds of homes.

Court documents and social media postings show Francesco Villi was a deeply disturbed man with a shaky grasp on reality.

Contractual payments made to government authority not public law matter of taxation, court said

Contractual payments made to government authority not public law matter of taxation, court said

Ottawas proposed review of St. Annes residential school claims is inadequate, judge rules An Ontario Superior Court Justice ruled Tuesday there will be an independent review of some St. Annes residential school survivor claims — but with some changes. Social Sharing Canadian government wont participate in the St. Annes review, but is expected to pay all costs CBC News · Posted: Apr 20, 2021 3:14 PM ET | Last Updated: April 20 An independent review of some St. Annes residential school cl...

Posted: Mar 09, 2021 1:33 PM ET | Last Updated: March 9 A finished section of the 155-kilometre-long aqueduct that pumps fresh water to the City of Winnipeg from Shoal Lake, seen in November 1916.(City of Winnipeg Archives) An Ontario judge has dismissed an attempt by the province to be removed from a lawsuit filed by a First Nation over Winnipegs taking of water from Shoal Lake.    Iskatewizaagegan No. 39 Independent First Nation (IIFN) filed a claim last November against Ontario and the ...

An Ontario Superior Court judge has accepted, in a preliminary decision in Price v Smith & Wesson Corp, 2021 ONSC 1114, that gun manufacturers may have civil liability in Canada for losses caused by mass shootings when feasible safety measures could have prevented the harm but were not used. The Danforth Shooting In summer 2018, a mass shooting on Danforth Avenue in Toronto involving a stolen handgun claimed the lives of two people and injured many others. The stolen handgun was an M&P®40, de...

AP Photo/Keith Srakocic A judge in Ontario, Canada has ruled that a potential class-action lawsuit filed against gunmaker Smith & Wesson by victims of a shooting and their family members can proceed, despite the novel legal theory being advanced by the attorneys pursuing the company. Justice Paul Perell of the Ontario Superior Court says that even though the pistol used in a 2018 attack in Toronto that left two people dead and 13 injured was stolen from a Saskatchewan gun shop, lawyers can argu...