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Ontario’s funding model for in vitro fertilization discriminates against single and gay men because only women are eligible to receive funding for the expensive treatment, according to rights advocates.
To receive funding for IVF, which starts around $10,000 for one cycle, the woman giving birth must provide her OHIP number even if she’s a surrogate.
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“If the patients are two gay men, they have to rely on the OHIP number of their surrogate,” said Toronto fertility lawyer Sherry Leviton, also board director of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society.
Canada s spy agency wants more power. How would that work?
The agency he runs fell afoul of the Federal Court and now the country s chief spy is intensifying his campaign for new powers and sounding the alarm on the Canadian Security Intelligence Service s ability to keep an eye on hostile foreign states. But civil liberty advocates say Parliament should be wary if it agrees to change CSIS’s legislation.
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Talk of travel restrictions, at both the federal and provincial
levels, is intensifying as COVID-19 infections continue to rise and
new variants generate increasing concerns for Canadians. Last week,
the federal government announced it would implement mandatory
testing and hotel quarantine for international travellers returning
to Canada.
1 On the same day, Ontario s
Premier announced the province would administer mandatory COVID-19
tests for international air travellers touching down in Ontario, at
least until the federal program is rolled out.
In addition to these international travel restrictions, some
provinces are considering restricting interprovincial travel.
British Columbia s Premier, John Horgan, recently announced
Temperatures were dropping into the minus-twenties. There was no time for hand-wringing.
On Nov. 6, Paulie Chinna declared a
state of emergency which allowed the government to convert the mine safety building into a day shelter. That state of emergency has been extended multiple times, most recently through Jan. 28.
But the executive director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association says resorting to this option says as much about the state of the territory s laws as it does about the government s efforts to address homelessness. On the one hand, they are using the emergency power as a workaround force for an urgent necessity, namely, to protect the lives and health of the homeless, said Michael Bryant. On the other hand, a system requiring a workaround is almost by definition, unconstitutional.