3+ week, 4+ day ago (122+ words) Misconduct by Ontario lawyers and paralegals to be made public: 'No brainer' Ontario Law Society is set to drop its decades-long practice of withholding such information, even in cases involving sex ... LATEST STORIES BY ROB CRIBB Misconduct by Ontario lawyers and paralegals to be made public: 'No brainer' Ontario Law Society is set to drop its decades-long practice of withholding such information, even in cases involving sex assault by legal professionals You've reached the 20 article limit. You can manage saved articles in your account. and save up to 100 articles! Looks like you've reached your saved article limit! You can manage your saved articles in your account and clicking the X located at the bottom right of the article....

3+ week, 2+ day ago (123+ words) Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Harry Potter deluxe audiobooks, and more 1. TV: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (Nov. 8, Disney+) 2. FILM: Frankenstein (Nov. 7, Netflix) 3. MUSIC: Finger Eleven (Nov. 7) 4. BOOK: Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions 5. CELEBRATION: Remembrance Day (Nov. 11) A holiday sailing along the Rhine is a great way to check some truly magical spots off your list Cruising between Split and Dubrovnik, travellers discover how a nation rebuilt its vineyards " and its spirit " from the ground up The iconic Canadian brand is releasing its second limited-edition collection to celebrate the "Wicked: For Good" movie Proof that you don"t have to break the bank to create delicious meals...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago (619+ words) The British broadcaster apologized but said it would not pay damages for a misleading speech edit U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would sue the BBC for up to $5 billion, after the British broadcaster apologized but said it would not pay damages for a misleading speech edit. The broadcaster has rejected Trump's legal defamation claim, but the president appears determined not to let the matter rest, even after the departure of top BBC executives and as the controversy threatens to become a strain on ties with London. "We'll sue them for anywhere between a billion and five billion dollars, probably some time next week. I think I have to do it. They've even admitted that they cheated," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. Trump earlier said he would sue the BBC for $1 billion, an already enormous sum that…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago (907+ words) It's a question that Margaret Atwood dismisses as unanswerable. What, you have asked her, does she hope readers take away from her latest endeavour, Book of Lives? "Every reader is different," she says. "So I have no idea what they'll take away from this book. It's going to be up to them. You just never know. Once the book is out of your hands, you have no control over it and your guess is a good as mine." It's a characteristically crisp, no-nonsense response from a writer who has always spoken her mind. Nevertheless, we can make one safe guess: fans of The Handmaid's Tale will eat up those pages dealing with the troubled genesis of her most famous novel. Book of Lives is a formidable addition to an eclectic Atwood catalogue that has now passed the 50-volume mark. And…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago (553+ words) The BBCs director general and its head of news both resigned Sunday after facing criticism over edits to a Donald Trump documentary. The director general of the BBC announced his resignation Sunday following a row over the editing of a documentary about U.S. President Donald Trump. Tim Davie and the broadcaster's head of news, Deborah Turness, resigned after accusations that a documentary by its flagship Panorama programme had edited a speech by Trump in a misleading way. "While not being the only reason, the current debate around BBC News has understandably contributed to my decision" I have to take ultimate responsibility." The latest controversy follows a Daily Telegraph report this week that said concerns were first raised in the summer in a memo on impartiality by Michael Prescott, a former external adviser to the BBC's editorial standards committee. Earlier Sunday, the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago (833+ words) Accused of being biased by some and defended as a champion of impartiality by others, the BBC is once again the subject of a thorny debate about the role of a publicly funded broadcaster in an increasingly polarized landscape. The BBC is regularly used as a political football, with the organization facing flak for how it chooses to cover issues from climate change to Brexit. Now it is under greater scrutiny than ever before, following the revelation that a documentary it aired last year misleadingly edited a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump has issued an unprecedented threat to sue over the documentary, which was broadcast before the U.S. presidential ballot and examined why U.S. voters were prepared to re-elect a convicted felon. In the former constituency of ex-prime minister Boris Johnson, a vocal critic of the BBC, one pensioner questioned by…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago (1068+ words) Louise Penny's The Black Wolf includes a cross-border plot to leverage control of water systems and resources in Canada Well before U.S. President Donald Trump brought up the idea of Canada becoming the 51st state, the proposition was already fermenting in the mind of best-selling Canadian fiction author Louise Penny. The Black Wolf, her latest novel in which the threat of annexation by the U.S. is a central plotline, was recently released and Penny, who previously turned down an invite to launch her latest Chief Inspector Armand Gamache story at the Kennedy Center in Washington, is remaining steadfast in her commitment to not tour the book in the U.S. The 20th book of the award-winning series picks up where Penny's last book, The Grey Wolf, left off, with Gamache and his team exposing and averting a plot to poison Montreal's water supply and arresting a…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago (1093+ words) Readers have their say on the potential new pipeline to northwest B.C., billionaire 'benefactors,' Canadians' short memories; help for the military, and more Re: Canada's oilsands make their comeback as U.S. shale plateaus " Robert Tuttle, Nov. 17; and Carney says it's "wrong' to say emissions cap is preventing major energy projects " Christopher Nardi, Nov. 7 Harry K. Hocquard, King, Ont. Two things stood out in Mark Carney's attempts to be clever in his responses to questions posed at a recent event at Toronto's Canadian Club. Second, when asked about a new pipeline, having assured us that he's "on the pipeline stuff," he was careful to add, "Well, something's going to happen. Let's put it that way." How coy. I hope Alberta Premier Danielle Smith doesn't end up playing Charlie Brown to Mark Carney's Lucy, who pulls the pipeline football away just as Premier Smith expects…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago (622+ words) Ottawa will no longer be imposing Canadian content quotas on the pornography sector, according to new guidelines released by the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission. Buried in a recent update to CRTC protocols is the agency's announcement that it will no longer be requiring "certification" of adult programming. In other words, any program "devoted to depicting explicit sexual activity" will no longer need to ensure a minimum quota of Canadians either in front of or behind the camera. "Adult programming will not be certified as Canadian programs," it reads. This has long been one of the more onerous demands of the CRTC, given the relative dearth of erotic media that would meet their terms as "Canadian content." Under the CRTC's definition of the term, it's not enough to have a Canadian performer or a Canadian setting. Rather, it's determined via an…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago (732+ words) Canadian Centre for Child Protection calls on platforms to enhance their safety regimes, particularly when it comes to private messaging, OTTAWA " A new report has found that nearly 40 per cent of Canadian teens who say they have been sexually victimized online say it happened on the private messaging platform Snapchat." The findings, released by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection on Tuesday, were collected through a survey based on responses from nearly 1,300 teens themselves. It comes as calls grow from child safety advocates for Prime Minister Mark Carney's government to present new legislation to better protect children online, including by introducing new regulations for tech platforms. The report from the child protection centre, a national charity which runs a tip line for child sex abuse and exploitation online, calls on platforms to enhance their safety regimes, particularly when it comes…...