Ontario's Superior Court of Justice has ruled that police officers who fatally shot a mentally ill man in crisis in 2020 should not have their names shielded from the public.
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The Ontario Superior Court of Justice
has dismissed a motion by Smith & Wesson Corp to throw out a
potential class action for negligent manufacturing of the firearm
used in a mass shooting in Toronto:
Price v. Smith & Wesson
Corp., 2021 ONSC 1114.
In July 2018, a loan gunman shot and
killed two people on a busy street in Toronto and injured several
others in a notorious incident known as the Danforth
Shooting. The firearm used in the shooting was a Smith &
Wesson handgun which had been reported stolen in 2015 by a gun
Success and Failure in Court Challenges Mounted Against COVID Restrictions
Restrictions to slow the spread of COVID-19 in various provinces have led some business, churches, and individuals who see the measures as unfair to resort to legal action, with mixed results.
In Ontario, Canadian Appliance Source challenged the COVID-19 restrictions that have closed seven of its locations in Vaughn, York, and Toronto, but it had its case dismissed by the Ontario Superior Court.
The major appliance chain had argued that it should qualify to remain open as a hardware store, since appliances fall under the definition of hardware, or “equipment used in a house,” and since provincial lockdown rules allow big box stores to stay open that are considered hardware stores and that also sell appliances. However, Justice Paul M. Perell ruled that there is “no ambiguity” in the definition of a hardware store.