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- Ontario’s Minimum Wage is Rising Again: How It Impacts Dental Practices
On October 1, 2026, Ontario’s general minimum wage rises from $17.60 to $17.95 per hour, a 1.9% increase tied to the province’s Consumer Price Index. That’s the second highest rate among Canadian provinces. For most dental practices, the direct cost is modest because many hygienists, assistants and … Read more »
- Clip It or Remove It? How a Retainer Miscommunication Became a Three-Year Regulatory Case
How much dentist time, money and public resources should be consumed by a misunderstanding over whether a permanent retainer wire was to be clipped or removed? In Meawasige v. Hadi, 2026 CanLII 94922, the answer was: far too much. An appointment on October 23, 2023 resulted in an RCDSO complaint, a … Read more »
- Employee Off for 19 Months? Ontario Court Says That Doesn’t Necessarily End the Employment Relationship
Can an employer treat an employment relationship as over when an employee has been away for 19 months because of a disability? Not necessarily. In Hill v. B&B Towing, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld a finding that a 17-year employee had been constructively dismissed after returning from a 19-mont … Read more »
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- A $451,461 Warning to Ontario Dentists: Bacchus v. RCDSO
Getting into a fight with the RCDSO can be expensive. Like really expensive. In Bacchus v. Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, the Ontario Divisional Court upheld findings of professional misconduct against an Ontario dentist, the revocation of his licence and, perhaps most strikingly, an … Read more »