What is the city's duty to protect the public from the hazards of snow and ice?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Swani v. The Corporation of the City of Toronto, 2018 ONSC 7804 (CanLII):
It is not every fall on ice that results in injury that attracts liability. Occhino v. Winnipeg addresses the reasonable limits placed on a municipality's obligation: The duty to protect the public from the hazards of snow and ice is far from absolute. The City is not an insurer of safety. It must take reasonable steps to keep sidewalks free of dangerous conditions, but its failure to do so does not necessarily result in liability to everyone who falls and is injured. [Occhino v. Winnipeg (City), 1988 CanLII 5647 (M.B.C.A.)]
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