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Category: Law and Safety
Dean: Wynne government gets loud about sexual violence
Columnist Tony Dean says Premier is stepping up to challenge sexual violence and finding an international reach in the face of silence from the federal government ...
Happening: Legal Aid Ontaro raises threshold again for legal services
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Liberal review finds federal prostitution law constitutional
Premier Kathleen Wynne says the province will uphold the federal government's new prostitution law. ...
Happening: Colleges release sexual assault protocol
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Province wants federal facilities covered by transgender rights
MPP Yasir Naqvi says the changes to the bill passed by Senate don't protect transgender individuals in federal facilities like correctional institutions, shelters and washrooms in federal buildings. ...
Dean: Speaker on safe ground in arming some Queen’s Park security staff
Columnist Tony Dean says legislative Speaker Dave Levac has made a wise compromise in arming some of Queen's Park security staff with firearms. ...
Year-long review of solitary confinement policy to begin this summer
Community Safety and Correctional Services Minister Yasir Naqvi says ongoing collective bargaining talks with correctional services staff is part of the lengthy review process. ...
Concerns of favouritism raised after retroactive provision scrubbed from nuisance-lawsuit bill
The NDP says it plans to challenge the amended timeline, which would exempt lawsuits launched by Resolute Forest Products and the premier herself, when the bill reaches committee. ...
Labour federation accused of using WSIB grant on employee benefits
PC labour critic Randy Hillier is demanding the Liberal government stop a so-called 'slush fund' that has seen $12.3 million given to the Ontario Federation of Labour since 2003. ...