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A B.C. Supreme Court judge deciding whether the province’s Mental Health Act violates the Charter rights of people forced into treatment has heard opening arguments in a challenge that started in 2016.On Thursday, the lead lawyer for the plaintiff laid out the testimony Justice Lauren Blake is set to hear, including from a psychiatric patient who says they were tackled and injected with medication, and another who will tell court they walked into an emergency room, were given drugs and then woke up detained against their will.
May 30, 2025 - 07:00 | Mike Hager | The Globe and Mail
Very few Ontario grocery stores that are required to accept empty alcohol containers are doing so, leaving the future of the deposit return program in question as The Beer Store closes locations across the province.
May 30, 2025 - 06:55 | | CBC News - Ottawa
May 30, 2025 - 06:42 | | CBC News - Canada
May 30, 2025 - 06:38 | | CBC News - Canada
Good morning. Baby Maryam’s seizures were not stopping, until a drastic brain procedure gave her a fighting chance to survive. More on her story below, plus wildfires in Western Canada and new proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza. But first:Today’s headlinesA U.S. federal appeals court reinstated President Donald Trump’s tariffs as the legal battle reframes global trade warHalting an active CSIS operation in 2022 put a team at risk, the watchdog says The first player takes the stand in his own defence at the Hockey Canada trial The federal Justice department invokes national security in the...
May 30, 2025 - 06:31 | Jennifer Yang | The Globe and Mail
As a federal judge with the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada since 2022, Nour Farhat hears asylum claims and renders decisions daily on immigration and refugee matters.
While she says her work is validating and important, the Montreal native always dreamed of becoming a prosecutor. She studied constitutional and criminal law at Université de Montréal and then attended Université de Sherbrooke for her master’s degree in criminal law. Farhat says she was focused on her “purpose” and trusted that hard work would get her where she wanted to go.
Farhat was blindsided in 2019, when the...
May 30, 2025 - 06:30 | Toula Drimonis | Walrus
