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The Substitute Decisions Act (the Act) is an act of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in Ontario, Canada.It establishes the legal criteria determining when a person has the ability to make decisions that are fundamental to his/her well-being.
Maurice Tomlinson (born 1971) is a Jamaican lawyer, law professor, and gay rights activist currently living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [1] He has been a leading gay rights and HIV activist in the Caribbean for over 20 years and is one of the only Jamaican advocates to challenge the country's 1864 British colonially-imposed anti gay Sodomy Law (known as the Buggery Law).
In 1796, the Maroons of Jamaica entered Halifax and were the first large group to enter British North America (The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2000). The name Maroons was used to describe slaves who ran away from their owners and created free communities away from the European settlements in Jamaica. A war between the Maroons and the British broke ...
Caribana is held in Toronto, Ontario every year and attracts over one million visitors to the region, many of whom fly all the way from Jamaica. Canada also has an agreement with the Jamaican government to allow the Canadian Forces a staging area to move troops and supplies for humanitarian assistance and possible anti-terrorism operations. [3]
Tavares-Finson was born in Kingston, Jamaica.Son of White Englishman, George Frank Finson [1] and White Jamaican, Hyacinth Lelia Tavares-Finson. [2] He was educated at the Jamaica College; McMaster University (Ontario, Canada); the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London; and the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.
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The Revised Statutes of Ontario (RSO; Quebec French: Lois refondues de l'Ontario, LRO) is the name of several consolidations of public acts in the Canadian province of Ontario, promulgated approximately decennially from 1877 to 1990. [1] [2]
During the early 1990s recession, Ontario faced an annual deficit of $12.4 billion in 1993. [1] [2] The government sought $2 billion in wage-concessions from public-sector workers to reduce the deficit. [2] The social contract mandated that public-sector workers earning more than $30,000 take up to 12 unpaid days off a year. [2]