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DECEPTION AND MISDIRECTION FROM OTTAWA – Bill C-13
“Protecting Canadians from Online Crime” is a laudable goal but not when this Bill’s real purpose is to circumvent the Supreme Courts ruling preserving Canadians constitutional rights. Bill C-13 creates a new offence of non-consensual distribution of intimate images but in doing so includes provisions for the forfeiture of property, preservation demands of electronic information, …
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BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU IMPLY
Man walks into a drugstore wearing a hoodie and says to the clerk, this is a robbery, give me the money, I have a gun. Clerk was scared and handed over the money. Man did not touch the clerk nor did he have a gun. The Supreme Court of Canada has made the semantic leap …
WHAT A LEGAL AID CERTIFICATE MEANS TO A LAWYER
I will restrict my comments to a criminal defence certificate issued by Legal Aid Ontario, because that’s what I know. Legal Aid is broken and is broken upon the backs of criminal defence lawyers. A LA certificate provides complete payment to a lawyer for all necessary services to defend a criminal charge at the prescribed …
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THE END OF IMPAIRED DRIVING
Technology will ultimately completely address the concerns of impaired driving, whether the impairment be from alcohol or drug consumption, distraction, inattention, stupidity, lack of skill or whatever. “The cars now being produced are stuffed with high-tech safety technologies that will allow the car to automatically avoid danger and even drive itself—if you fall asleep while …
LEGAL AID ONTARIO – THE SHAM BUREAUCRACY
Too much money goes to the bureaucrats and not to you. Here are the facts: BENEFITS OF WORKING AT LAO Staff Annual salary of $60,601 – $107,464 (non-management lawyers)17 days paid vacationUp to 32 weeks of pregnancy and parental leave6 paid sick days per year with 5 to 120 days paid at 100% of pay …
LEGAL AID ONTARIO – IS IT RELEVANT TO YOU?
“Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) received $354 million in funding during the 2010/11 fiscal year, with 76% of that coming from the provincial government. Additional funds came from the federal government under a cost-sharing agreement, from the Law Foundation of Ontario, and from clients whose income levels require them to help pay for legal assistance.” (Ontario …
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The shame of Legal Aid Ontario
The shame of LAO continues. The shame of Legal Aid Ontario.
Canada Is Becoming More American on Gun Control
For a government who is proudly “tough on crime”, this is a tough one to understand. “Canada is one of the only countries in the world that is moving backwards: weakening its controls on firearms while other countries are introducing stronger laws to improve safety and combat the trafficking of firearms.” Canada Is Becoming More …
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CROWNS STILL USE JUNK SCIENCE TO OBTAIN WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS
After many years we’re still fighting the Crown’s extremely prejudicial attempts to introduce junk science into evidence to obtain convictions of sexual assault. In this case the Crown used a purported expert “child psychologist to testify about the effect of delayed, incremental and inconsistent disclosure by child victims of trauma including child abuse and a …
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