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The Supreme Court of Canada heard one appeal in January and will hear seven more in February and March that may interest the business community or organizations facing civil litigation:
January Decision of the SCC
The Supreme Court of Canada allowed the appeal in the
medical malpractice case,
Armstrong v Royal Victoria Hospital, 2019 ONCA 963. The plaintiff underwent colon surgery and suffered injury to her ureter in the process due to it coming into close proximity with a LigaSure device. The surgeon was found negligent at trial. The Ontario Court of Appeal overturned the trial judge s decision, holding that he improperly applied the standard of care analysis by focusing on the goals that surgeons aim to achieve in performing surgery (i.e., keeping the LigaSure a certain distance from the ureter), rather than the means used to achieve those goals. The Supreme Court adopted the decision of the dissent at the Court o
Forty-one northers were in hospital due to COVID-19 on Wednesday, 37 of them with active infections and four of them in intensive care. The NRHA has now had 3,606 total cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic began. Province-wide, there are 281 people in hospital due to the virus, 127 of whose cases are still considered active. Thirty-six of them are in intensive care, including 12 who are no longer considered infectious. Four more deaths due to COVID-19 were reported in Manitoba Jan. 27, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 813. The provincial five-day test positivity rate on Wednesday was 9.6 per cent. Health and Seniors Care Minister Heather Stefanson and Dr. Joss Reimer, medical officer of health with Manitoba Health and Seniors Care and medical lead on the vaccine implementation task force, announced further priority groups for vaccinations at a news conference on Wednesday. The second stage includes more health care workers, residents of high and moderate-risk c
Northern Manitoba residents who are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine can now start making appointments to receive their first dose at the Thompson Regional Community Centre (TRCC) . . .
Northern Manitoba and the province as a whole recorded some of the lowest numbers of new COVID-19 cases in recent days Jan. 26 but the threat of a more deadlier variant now present in Canada has prompted the provincial government to bring back self-isolation requirements for people arriving in Manitoba from other provinces. Ninety-four new cases of the virus were announced by the provincial government on Tuesday, including 36 in the Northern Regional Health Authority. The largest increases in the north were in the Bunibonibee/Oxford House/Manto Sipi/God’s River/God’s Lake and Island Lake health districts, which each had eight new cases of the virus, while there were six new cases in the Gillam/Fox Lake health district, five in the Grand Rapids/Misipawisitik/Easterville/Chemawawin/Moose Lake health district and two in the Lynn Lake/Marcel Colomb/South Indian Lake/Granville Lake/Leaf Rapids health district. The Thompson/Mystery Lake and Cross Lake/Pimicikamak health districts re
“Taking the health care support worker training is my best opportunity to start working in the health care field,” said program graduate Kanwaljeet Gill in a UCN press release. “I am very grateful to UCN and hospital management staff for creating this short period training opportunity.” Offering the program can help alleviate stresses on a health care system overburdened as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, said UCN Dean of Health Dr. Vicki Zeran. “It’s important that UCN helps in any way possible during these trying times,” Zeran said. CEO Helga Bryant said the NRHA looks forward to working with recent and future graduates at a time when their skills are greatly needed in northern communities.