Tag: court of appeal
Hospital unions fear layoffs as LHSC deficit soars to $150M
Workers at LHSC have a message for the hospital as it copes with a deficit expected to nearly double to $150M by the spring of 2025.
Man sentenced to prison for manslaughter, but out on appeal
BRANTFORD â Connor Gibson has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for manslaughter in the death of a man he hit with a two-by-four board. But Gibson, dressed neatly in a suit and tie in Brantfordâs Superior Court of Justice, and his lawyer met again hours later on Thursday in Toronto to arrange bail, […]
Loved ones’ pain expressed at sentencing of driver in Girl Guides crash
Ten of the 17 expected victim impact statements were read in a London courtroom on Thursday morning as sentencing began for an elderly driver who crashed into a troop of Girl Guides, killing an eight-year-old.
Appeal court opens door to SON claim to waters around Hope Bay
The Court of Appeal for Ontario has ordered Saugeen Ojibway Nation’s Aboriginal title claim for waters surrounding the Bruce Peninsula to be examined further by the trial judge, but limited to the Hope Bay area of the peninsula. The area claimed at trial included from near Goderich to the Canada-United States boundary in Lake Huron, […]
Third court loss for town in Sauble plover habitat case
Ontario’s appeal court dismissed South Bruce Peninsula’s appeal of convictions on two counts of damaging piping plover habitat at Sauble Beach — the third time a court has found against the town in this case. The municipality was convicted of damaging the beach habitat of the endangered migratory shorebird on April 13, 2017 and between […]