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Pembroke council delays reconsidering contract with mayor’s law firm

07/05/2025despair

City councillors in Pembroke, Ont., voted Tuesday night to delay reconsidering its decades-old contract with the city’s solicitor — a lawyer at Sheppard & Gervais, the law firm the mayor currently works at.

The relationship between Mayor Ron Gervais, the firm, and city solicitor Robert Sheppard has been under scrutiny after some residents raised questions about perceived and possible conflicts of interest in recent media coverage.

Gervais has been an elected official on the council for more than a decade, and served as deputy mayor before becoming mayor last November. The city has been paying Sheppard & Gervais for legal

MANDEL: Is the Ontario law society too ‘woke’? Election battle begins

04/05/2025despair

Woke is the word and it’s being used to demarcate the bitter lines drawn in the battle for governing control of the Law Society of Ontario.

Lawyers across the province begin voting Wednesday to elect 40 lawyers and five paralegal directors who will serve four years at the helm of the self-regulating profession. The FullStop slate of candidates has declared the LSO has “lost its way” and must be stopped from ttreating members with discipline for “colouring outside the lines of approved groupthink.”

In a column for the Financial Postfor example, noted

Mississauga votes to allow legal retail cannabis stores – Toronto

03/05/2025despair

Ontario’s legal cannabis market is poised to grow significantly larger, with the province’s largest city that had banned retail pot stores voting Wednesday to opt in.

Mississauga, Ont., was one of dozens of municipalities to bar retail cannabis stores from their communities when legalization came into effect in 2018. But, four and a half years later, a city report highlighted that Mississauga residents are “disproportionately” served by the illegal market in the absence of legal stores.

City council voted Wednesday 8-4 to opt in.

Mayor Bonnie Crombie also spoke in favour, saying she had supported opting out in 2018, hoping

Mississauga votes to allow legal retail pot shops

30/04/2025despair

Ontario’s largest municipality without any legal cannabis retail stores has voted to now allow the shops.

Mississauga, Ont., was one of dozens of municipalities to bar retail cannabis stores from their communities when legalization came into effect in 2018.

But now, four and a half years later, the city council has voted 8-4 to opt in.

The decision comes after a city report highlighted that Mississauga residents are “disproportionately” served by the illegal market in the absence of legal stores.

Count. Dipika Damerla put forward the motion, saying that opting out of the legal framework has allowed illegal stores to

Moving out of the family Home after Separation

28/04/2025despair

It is a question that virtually all separating couples will ask at some point: if we are no longer a couple, who should live where? More particularly clients want to know if moving out of the family home will impact the settlement of the property before their divorce or separation is finalised.

Should one of us move out? Should I buy a new property? What happens if we have an investment property together? Does it matter if my name is on the title? Who pays the mortgage if only one party moves out? Should we sell our property? What if

Niagara Falls driver jailed on DWI charges after failing to outrun the law

24/04/2025despair

A Niagara Falls man who tried – but failed – to outrun the police early Sunday was jailed after leading them on a high-speed chase that ended with him fleeing his vehicle and entering a residence, where he was arrested.

Niagara County sheriff’s deputies said Vito R. Wojick, 19, was spotted running a red light at Military Road at Packard Road in the Town of Niagara around 3:38 am When a deputy tried to stop the vehicle, Wojick fled southbound on the I-190 at high speed onto Grand Island, then left the expressway and continued through residential streets and town

15 EU countries, including Germany and France, joined the legal case against Hungary’s anti-LGBT law

21/04/2025despair

A total of 15 European Union countries have joined a legal case against Hungary’s Child Protection Law, widely criticized as being anti-LGBT.

Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Austria, Ireland, Denmark, Malta, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Slovenia, France, Germany and Greece, together with the European Parliament, will act as third parties in the lawsuit filed last year by the European Commission.

The deadline to join the case ended on April 6.

“We stand firm in our commitment to an inclusive society and equality for all,” said the Belgian Foreign Affairs Ministry, which had led the charge against the controversial bill.

The Hungarian law,

US Justice Clarence Thomas responds to unreported luxury travel | Courts News

18/04/2025despair

United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has responded to a report detailing his failure to disclose luxury trips provided by a Republican megadonor — a possible violation of the law.

In a statement to US media on Friday, Thomas said he had “always sought to comply with the disclosure guidelines”.

His response came a day after a report from the nonprofit news publication ProPublica, which detailed regular trips taken by the staunchly conservative justice on the private jet and 162-foot (50-metre) yacht of real estate scion Harlan Crow.

The report said that Thomas’s failure to report two decades of

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