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HOW IS OUR BAIL SYSTEM BROKEN? – With 82 percent of all Ontario prison inmates are being held without bail, the system seems to be cooking along just fine. “We have more people in our provincial jails who are supposed to be considered legally innocent than who have been convicted or found guilty and sentenced to be there,” 

Posted byDennis Reeve 30 January 202430 January 2024

https://www.cp24.com/news/the-vast-majority-of-people-in-ontario-jails-last-year-were-awaiting-a-trial-data-shows-1.6748052

Posted byDennis Reeve30 January 202430 January 2024Posted inUncategorized

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A WISE MOVE – “Justice Michael Wendl of the Ontario Court of Justice walked back what is being called an unprecedented, heavy-handed and illegal contempt of court citation against a local lawyer on Tuesday.” I don’t believe this will or should alleviate a complaint to the Canadian Judicial Council for threatening a lawyer.
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