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Publication Date: December 8, 2025 - 04:00
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Majority of Ontario fraud cases tossed since 2020 due to limited resources: Crowns’ association
December 8, 2025
CBC News reviewed the latest three years of fraud statistics released since its investigative series The Cost of Fraud revealed that only a fraction of fraud cases were making it through Ontario’s justice system a few years ago. The new numbers from Statistics Canada show the problem has only gotten worse, and have some experts pointing to alternative solutions to stem the flow of fraud.
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Hundreds of pages of contraband reports paint a picture of a jail system where illegal drugs, from cocaine to MDMA or fentanyl, are regularly found.
December 8, 2025 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Ottawa
The Canadian government has a duty to ensure First Nations behind a class-action lawsuit have access to clean drinking water, a federal judge has ruled.The case, the third major class-action lawsuit brought forward in recent years over unsafe water in First Nations communities, was filed by Shamattawa First Nation and its Chief, Jordna Hill, and was certified in 2023. Shamattawa, a Treaty 5 First Nation in northern Manitoba, is a fly-in community that has faced “a near constant” drinking-water advisory since December of 2018, according to the decision filed on Friday by Federal Court...
December 8, 2025 - 05:30 | Susan Krashinsky Robertson, Willow Fiddler | The Globe and Mail
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of New Brunswick says it thoroughly reviewed a 2022 Quebec regulator’s decision to revoke the privileges of a family doctor who was found to have fraudulently obtained his medical license in Quebec.But the New Brunswick college says it found no reason to take similar measures and allowed Sanjeev Sirpal to continue practising and subsequently work in Nova Scotia through the Atlantic Registry, an interprovincial licensing program. Dr. Sirpal is now alleged to have sexually assaulted patients in both provinces.As Canada considers introducing greater...
December 8, 2025 - 05:00 | Lindsay Jones, Ha Tu Thanh | The Globe and Mail
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