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By City News Service Dec 21, 2020 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A man who sued the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power over inaccurate utility billings filed a lawsuit in federal court today against the city over the way in which the city attorney's office handled the case. Antwon Jones, who was a plaintiff in a settlement in 2017 when the DWP was forced to give refunds to customers after a massive billing snafu, claims that city officials used him as an “unwitting pawn'' and conspired with Paradis Law Group, which he retained during the first lawsuit. The debacle prompted a class-action lawsu...

  MONTREAL -- Now that many residents at Maimonides Geriatric Centre who wanted a COVID vaccine have gotten one, health authorities have a new challenge on their hands: addressing the vaccine hesitancy that exists among its employees. “It is a super-priority,” the associate CEO of the West-Central-Montreal CIUSSS told CTV News during a phone interview. Francine Dupuis confirmed that while 95 per cent of residents agreed to be inoculated, only 35 to 40 per cent of employees have signalled a desire to get the shots, a rate that she says “is very low.” “Every effort is on the tab...