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A deal with police to secure tow trucks to clear last winter’s convoy protest fell through and the Emergencies Act was needed to commandeer those services, a lawyer acting for the federal government told the Public Order Commission inquiry Wednesday. The commission — tasked with determining whether the federal government was justified in deploying the Emergencies …
Read More »Poilievre replaces top lawyer at Conservative Party
Pierre Poilievre has replaced the Conservative Party’s top lawyer with his own pick, CBC News has learned, as he continues to shake up the party’s upper echelons. The party’s legal counsel, Arthur Hamilton, has been replaced with Michael Wilson, a Poilievre ally and partner at the law firm Goodmans, according to sources. The …
Read More »Identity of N.L. lawyer in sexual assault case revealed as top court won’t hear anonymity bid
The curtain has been lifted on the identity of Newfoundland lawyer Robert Regular, after the Supreme Court of Canada declined Thursday to hear an appeal that would allow him to continue shielding his name from publication. Until now, Regular, 70, has been known on court dockets in Newfoundland and Labrador …
Read More »Doug Mitchell, former CFL commissioner and Calgary lawyer, has died at 83
Douglas Mitchell, a former Canadian Football League player who went on to become commissioner of the league as well as a prominent Calgary lawyer and community leader, died on Wednesday at the age of 83. Mitchell played briefly in the CFL with the B.C. Lions and Hamilton Tiger-Cats and later went …
Read More »Jan. 6 committee subpoenas top Trump White House lawyer Pat Cipollone
The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection issued a subpoena Wednesday to former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, who is said to have stridently warned against former president Donald Trump’s efforts to try to overturn his election loss. It’s the first public step the committee has taken since …
Read More »Naturopaths ‘not bound by science,’ lawyer argues in B.C. hearing on fecal transplants for autism
The lawyer for a Fraser Valley naturopath facing investigation for his business selling fecal microbiota transplants to families of autistic children argued in a B.C. courtroom Tuesday that his client isn’t obligated to follow scientific evidence. Naturopath Jason Klop was in B.C. Supreme Court petitioning for a judge to order …
Read More »Law groups ‘alarmed’ over arrest of lawyer outside Ford rally near Hamilton airport
The Criminal Lawyers’ Association and Women In Canadian Criminal Defence (WICCD) are criticizing the arrest of a Toronto-based lawyer near an Ontario Progressive Conservative campaign stop in Hamilton last Thursday. “We are alarmed that any citizen, let alone a member of our profession, would be treated by police — seemingly on behalf of an …
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