Rental car damage protection insurance (collision damage waiver) covers the value of the vehicle, but doesn’t carry personal coverage for injury or loss of property. Some agencies offer additional policies, with a range of fees, for liability, medical costs and coverage of personal effects.
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Prominent Toronto lawyer ordered to pay $114K for role in pursuing ‘unreasonable’ lawsuits
The situation began in 2007 when Donald Best sued 62 defendants for negligence and economic loss. The action was stayed in 2009, and Best was later found in contempt for failing to comply with court orders. In 2012, he accused the defendants and their lawyers of perjury, conspiracy, fraud, obstruction of justice and fabrication of evidence — accusations a judge rejected as baseless.
Tape over your laptop camera? Why it might not be as paranoid as it seems
Covering a computer’s camera doesn’t protect the device from being hacked, but it does prevent a hacker from being able to see whatever the camera sees. Covering a laptop’s microphone can muffle the audio enough to prevent a hacker from listening in, uninvited.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/
WCB executives pull in $3.6M yearly
The Wildrose has compiled a single list using newly released ‘sunshine’ disclosures from each organization, and it shows that WCB employees dominate the upper echelons of public-employee compensation in Alberta.
Alberta Workers’ Compensation Board president took home nearly $900K last year
The chief executive at the Workers’ Compensation Board of Alberta took home nearly $900,000 last year, twice the amount paid to his counterpart in Ontario and a greater-than-40-per-cent increase over his salary five years ago.
Province aims to boost support for low-income residents
The goal is to create a system of support both inside and outside social assistance that provides adequate incomes, is simple to understand and is administered equitably across the province.
Hugh Segal, Champion Of Basic Income, To Design Ontario’s Pilot Project
It will be designed “to test the growing view that a basic income could help deliver income support more efficiently, while improving health, employment and housing outcomes for Ontarians,” the province’s Ministry of Community and Social Services said in a statement on Friday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/
Debilitating illness leaves Toronto man struggling to get by
Manson would also like to see people with disabilities allowed to earn as much as they receive in annual benefits without triggering clawbacks, as is the practice in British Columbia. The extra income would help make ends meet, but more importantly, he says, the social connections would make life more worth living.
Brain Injury Awareness Month in Canada: Concussion, traumatic brain injury, dementia, hypertension, sleep apnea
You may not think that brain injuries are a large problem, but they are in fact becoming a silent epidemic in Canada and are the number one killer in adults over the age of 44. Furthermore, men are more likely to experience a brain injury than women.
$90,000 Non-Pecuniary Assessment for Chronic Neck and Back Injuries
In today’s case (Lu v. Huang) the Plaintiff was injured in a 2011 rear-end collision. The Defendant admitted fault. The Plaintiff’s injuries included chronic back and neck pain, headaches with psychological consequences. The prognosis was poor with symptoms expected to continue into the future and remain partially disabling.