Attorney General Yasir Naqvi

• Attorney general announces Wi-Fi, emailed jury summonses for Ontario’s courts

  The system remains largely a paper-based one, which has not thus far reacted quickly to adopt new - or even not-so-new - technologies, Attorney General Yasir Naqvi said Wednesday.

  Canada

  Nov 29, 2017
  
• Ontario Crown attorneys told to consider least restrictive bail recommendations

  About two-thirds of the people held in Ontario's correctional institutions are on remand, meaning they are legally innocent.

  Crime

  Oct 30, 2017
  
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• Group calls for Ontario to make crisis intervention training mandatory for police officers

  The Toronto chapter of the Innocence Project is pushing to amend the Police Services Act in what it says is an effort to address police shootings of people with mental illness.

  Oct 25, 2017
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• Ontario makes it illegal to protest outside abortion clinics, homes of those who perform services

  The legislature passed a bill today to create zones around the eight clinics in the province of between 50 and 150 metres in which anti-abortion protests, advising a person not to get an abortion, and intimidation or interfering with a woman's ability to access the services will be banned.

  Canada

  Oct 25, 2017
• Ontario attorney general says Quebec’s religious neutrality law violates charter rights

  Attorney general Yasir Naqvi says governments must respect a person's right to express themselves and their religion.

  Canada

  Oct 18, 2017
• Ontario bill looks to strengthen consumer protection and ban scalper bots

  If a bill making changes to the Ontario Consumers Act is passed, the new rules would ban the use of ticket bots for the purchase of event tickets online, in addition to capping ticket resale prices at 50 per cent above the face value.

  Consumer

  Oct 5, 2017
• Ontario to create safe zones around abortion clinics, homes of those who perform services

  Naqvi said the zones, which will extend 50 to 150 metres around Ontario's eight abortion clinics, are designed to protect women who choose to access the services. The zones are spaces where advising a person to refrain from getting an abortion, anti-abortion protests and intimidation or interfering with a woman's ability to access the services will be banned, he said.

  Canada

  Oct 4, 2017