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Health Canada issued a pre-emptive advisory to Canadians on Dec. 16. This warning, identification number RA-74579, cautioned them not to buy COVID-19 vaccines online or from unauthorized sources, as there is a big chance that they are counterfeit and could pose serious health risks. This followed a global alert from Interpol, the international criminal police organization, to law enforcement agencies around the world, and information received by other government agencies. While Health Canada isn’t aware of any cases of Canadians purchasing or using these counterfeit vaccines as of Dec. 18, they are encouraging anyone to report any information on the sale or advertising of these potential counterfeit vaccines to them immediately.
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Justice Donovan Molloy dismissed dozens of charges in November after a Crown prosecutor missed her flight to Hay River. (Emily Blake/CBC)
Dozens of charges thrown out by a Hay River judge last month could be getting a second chance in court.
Blair MacPherson, general counsel with the Yellowknife office of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, said the Crown has filed appeals with the N.W.T. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal for some, not all, of the cases dismissed on Nov 9.
On that day, Justice Donovan Molloy dismissed 53 charges against 14 people on the docket for want of prosecution, because a Crown prosecutor missed her flight.
Critics decry ‘incremental baby steps’ in a nationwide ‘life-and-death crisis.’
Tyee frequent contributor Christopher Guly is an Ottawa-based journalist and member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery. SHARES A June 2020 rally in Vancouver for access to a safe supply of illicit drugs. Vancouver council is taking steps to reduce overdose deaths in the city, starting by asking the federal government to decriminalize hard drugs.
Photo by Jesse Winter.
Vancouver city council passed a unanimous resolution last month to ask the federal government to decriminalize personal possession of illicit drugs within the city’s boundaries “in order to address urgent public health concerns caused by the overdose crisis and COVID-19.”
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Non-solicitation or no-poach clauses that prohibit
franchisees from soliciting or hiring the employees of other
franchisees are commonly included in Canadian and American
franchise agreements. However, these provisions have increasingly
been scrutinized by US antitrust regulators, who have indicated
that no-poach clauses, including those in franchise agreements can
be subject to criminal prosecutions. Adding to this are the
aggressive campaigns taken against these types of clauses
(including in the franchise context) by enforcement agencies under
state antitrust laws.
In Canada, the prevailing view has been that these types of