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Publication Date: April 7, 2025 - 16:45
Former MPP Randy Hillier wins bid to appeal dismissal of COVID-19 lockdown Charter challenge
April 7, 2025

Ontario's highest court has ruled that gathering limits during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2021 unjustifiably violated the Charter right to peaceful assembly, and it's allowing former Ottawa-area MPP Randy Hillier to appeal the dismissal of his challenge to those limits.
A national legal group has apologized and begun an internal review after facing widespread criticism for cancelling a keynote speech by a prominent Syrian refugee.The Advocates’ Society last month rescinded an invitation to Tareq Hadhad, owner of the Nova Scotia confectioner Peace by Chocolate to speak at an event in June after some members expressed concern with the refugee-turned-entrepreneur’s posts about the ongoing Middle East conflict.
April 8, 2025 - 07:49 | | The Globe and Mail
The elder McKenzie told the court Monday that he found his brother pacing back and forth inside the trailer, while Stewart-Sperry kept apologizing.
April 8, 2025 - 07:35 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
Just over 35,000 customers still don’t have power back in Ontario more than a week after a storm tore through the central and eastern parts of the province.Among the hardest hit communities were those surrounding Peterborough and Orillia.Hydro One says over 4,800 crews are working to restore service, with favourable weather in the forecast.
April 8, 2025 - 07:13 | | The Globe and Mail
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