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OTTAWA鈥擜 block from Parliament Hill, Ottawas Morgentaler abortion clinic is bracing for harassment of its staff and patients in spite of an Ontario law creating a 50-metre protest-free buffer zone around clinics that takes effect Thursday.The provinces Safe Access to Abortion Services Act comes into force Feb. 1, almost 30 years to the day after the Supreme Court of Canada acquitted Dr. Henry Morgentaler and struck down the criminal restrictions on abortion services as unconstitutional.Since that rul
stanley quencher ing on Jan. 28, 1988, no government has put an abortion prohibition on the books and it is legal to provide abortion services in Canada. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Yet ongoing protests at the Ottawa clinic provided much of the impetus for the provincial law. Protesters here frequently ignored a city bylaw that requires them to keep their d
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Starting Friday, residents of Peterborough, Ont., will be able to pop into their local library and rent a device that can help them gauge their risk of catching COVID-19 indoors. An
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