The $100,000 pilot project is the latest step in the long march toward equal access for Franco-Ontarians. ...
Category: Law and Safety
Oversight body fights back against challenge to assisted-dying rules
Lawyers for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario told Superior Court that its policy of “effective referral” to a non-objecting doctor balances practitioners’ religious freedoms with their “duty to provide ...
Ontario Police College performance ‘has eroded,’ top cops say
Community Safety Minister Marie-France Lalonde hinted upcoming reforms to policing will include measures to address what's been called “inconsistent” training standards at the Ontario Police College. ...
Justice Tulloch will put Ontario’s police street check rules to the test
Tulloch, who just wrapped up a review into civilian police oversight, will gauge the impact of a new regulation for carding, a controversial practice in which officers document and store identifying information about an ...
Child protection bill passes as social conservatives fear ‘overreach by the state’
The bill also sets out processes by which societies can amalgamate with each other, and gives the minister the power to compel societies to do so. ...
Three things to know about Ontario’s latest segregation review
Howard Sapers made 63 recommendations, including capping administrative segregation at 15 days. ...
Sparks fly over photo radar bill
“I'm hopeful that if the government truly cares about student safety it will work with us to adopt this measure," the PCs' transportation critic says of his proposed amendment to allow bus-cam footage admissible in court ...
Heard: Legislation to update Police Services Act pushed back to fall
The government says this will allow the government to consult more. ...
Jail reform requires bigger slice of budget, Ontario human rights commissioner says
A problem in the Correctional Services Ministry is that "they agree to policy changes without putting in the kinds of resources you need to make those policy changes a reality," according to Ontario human rights commissi ...
Watchdog hears that jails ‘tracked livestock better than we do human beings’
The government has begun tweaking segregation policy, but that's amounted to "little concrete change," Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dube said. ...