Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has appointed Quebec-born Justice Richard Wagner to be the next chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Wagner, 60, was born in Montreal and earned a law degree from the University of Ottawa in 1979. His field was professional liability and on commercial litigation related to real estate law, oppression remedies and class action suits. Ten percent of Ontario full-time college students have decided to take a refund rather than struggle with a shortened school year to get their diplomas. That’s 25,700 out of 250,000, a little hidden cost to the rancorous strike that convulsed community colleges through the fall. And Opposition Leader Brown has dismissed the defamation lawsuit brought against him by Premier Wynne, claiming it is a stunt. Wynne said Tuesday that she would drop the lawsuit if he simply said he was sorry.
