Dramatic changes to health-care services for injured workers, including a 40 per cent funding drop in rehabilitative treatment and a 30 per cent drop in drug benefit spending, is having a “devastating” impact on some of the province’s most vulnerable citizens, according to a letter obtained by the Star.
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Low-income, lack of access to groceries creates ‘double whammy’, Lakehead professor says
The research from Thunder Bay Counts, a group dedicated to social change in the city, also found that a family of four, on social assistance, will spend 40 per cent of its monthly income on healthy food.
Liberal MPP proposes stiffer penalties for careless driving convictions
A Liberal MPP who lost her husband a decade ago after he was hit by a truck while cycling introduced amendments to the Highway Traffic Act today that will stiffen penalties for those convicted of careless driving.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
Top questions for Long Term Disability Claims in Ontario
A lot of our practice is focused on litigating short term, and long term disability claims against large insurance companies such as Manulife, Great West Life, Sun Life, Industrial Alliance, RBC Insurance, La Capitale Insurance, Co-Operators Insurance, Equitable Life, Canada Life etc.
CASHRA STATEMENT
May 30, 2016 – The Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies (CASHRA) (1) is calling on all levels of government to enact federal, provincial and territorial legislation to meet Canada’s obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). (2)
No interest on litigation loan for injured woman
A woman who suffered a brain injury in a car crash will not have to pay the interest on a litigation loan made by the wife of her former personal injury lawyer after the Divisional Court declared the agreement “unconscionable.”
Editorial: Duty to report
Editorial: Duty to report
Law Times reports new Law Society of Upper Canada rules will mean lawyers and paralegals must report other legal professionals whose conduct raises “substantial questions” about their honesty, trustworthiness, or competency. In my experience, people are loath to tattle on their neighbours if they must continue living next to them. It is a fundamentally human instinct to know that throwing mud on another can mean you end up getting dirty, even if you have well-placed suspicions or knowledge of wrongdoing by another.
http://www.lawtimesnews.com/
What is chronic pain and why is it hard to treat?
A recent study by the National Institutes of Health found that more than one in three people in the United States have experienced pain of some sort in the previous three months. Of these, approximately 50 million suffer from chronic or severe pain.
Brain Injury 101
Your brain is who you are, it’s your humanity. Just as no two people are alike, no two acquired brain injuries are alike. Survivors will experience the effects of acquired brain injuries in many different ways.
That being said, damages to certain parts of the brain will impact specific brain functions.
Opinion Poll on Sports Concussion in Canada
While Canadians have become lamentably accustomed to seeing hockey stars such as Sidney Crosby, Paul Kariya and Chris Pronger suffer the effects of career-altering or ending head injuries, a new poll from the Angus Reid Institute shows damage from concussions hits even closer to home for average Canadians – one-in-five of whom say they’ve experienced such a brain injury while playing sports as a child or adult.