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Nunavut's Bill 14 advanced to second reading on October 26 with proposed changes to the Medical Profession Act's Board of Inquiry. The bill would revise board membership, set term limits and allow hearing panels, affecting the structure of physician professional accountability if it becomes law.
Correctional Service Canada says it will review an October 22 death at Collins Bay Institution and notify police and the coroner.
Correctional Service Canada carried 15,100 privacy requests into the next fiscal year, with 94% already past statutory timelines. Its annual report also records seven material privacy breaches.
Immigration detention hearings follow a statutory timetable, but their substance depends on access to documents, interpreters and realistic alternatives to keeping a person in custody.
The Supreme Court held that the immigration detention review system wasn't as broad and advantageous as habeas corpus for Chhina's specific challenge to prolonged detention and its conditions. His application had to be heard.
Correctional Service Canada says an inmate was injured in an October 12 assault at Kent Institution, received outside hospital treatment and returned to custody. Both the RCMP and institution are investigating, with no findings yet announced.
A person in custody can't simply take their concern to a different institution, and the staff responsible for keeping people safe may also be the people whose decisions are challenged. Northwest Territories corrections l
Ontario's Patient Ombudsman highlights how complaints and trauma-informed responses can reveal system problems. Institutions need to treat that information as part of accountability, not merely customer service.
Canada's Correctional Investigator says the setting itself can interfere with treatment. The question isn't only whether care is available, but whether institutional decisions allow it to work.
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