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LISTEN | Why not filing a claim could actually hurt you in the long run: Cost of Living9:24To claim or not to claim, that is the question. You’re backing into a parking space when you hear it — that dreaded crunch, the sound of your fender clawing its way across …
Read More »Former South Korea leader handed 5-year jail term for charges related to martial law
Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A South Korean court on Friday sentenced former president Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in …
Read More »Law society suspends licence of Deepak Paradkar, Ontario lawyer tied to alleged drug lord Ryan Wedding
Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. The Law Society of Ontario has suspended the licence of Deepak Paradkar, one of seven Canadians arrested in connection with alleged drug lord Ryan Wedding’s cocaine smuggling …
Read More »A new law gives Ontario more power over school boards. What does Bill 33 mean for your family?
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. A controversial new law that will give Ontario’s education minister more power over school boards and other facets of the education system has passed in the province’s …
Read More »Government seeks to retroactively change law, potentially avoiding paying veterans over federal error
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. The Carney government’s budget legislation contains an amendment that lawyers representing veterans say is a bid to cover up a decades-long error that led to overcharging for …
Read More »Supreme Court will hear appeals of Saskatchewan’s school pronoun law
Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. The Supreme Court of Canada says it will hear appeals in a challenge of Saskatchewan’s school pronoun law. No date has been set for the court to …
Read More »Law Society of Ontario failed to spot Toronto firm’s years-long, $7M fraud
A boutique Toronto law firm at the centre of a $7-million embezzlement case appears to have passed a financial spot check by the Law Society of Ontario years after the managing partner admits she began stealing client money to fund a lavish lifestyle. In the summer of 2022, when the …
Read More »He wanted to take his wife’s last name. But first, they had to change South African law
As It HappensSouth Africa court ruling paves way for men to take their wives’ surnames When Jana Jordaan first told her then-fiancé Henry van der Merwe that she intended to keep her last name after they got married, he not only supported her, but offered to take her surname as well. …
Read More »Alberta government promises to fight for school pronoun law amid legal challenge
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative government says it will fight to defend a court challenge to its school pronoun law. “Alberta’s government will vigorously defend our position in court,” Heather Jenkins, press secretary to Justice Minister Mickey Amery, said in a statement after two 2SLGBTQ+ advocacy groups officially filed …
Read More »London police arrest hundreds as pro-Palestinian protesters defy new U.K. law
British police said they arrested more than 200 people in central London on Saturday as supporters of a recently banned pro-Palestinian group intentionally flouted the law as part of their effort to force the government to reconsider the ban. Parliament in early July passed a law banning Palestine Action and …
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