JUDGES DON’T ALWAYS ACCEPT JOINT SUBMISSIONS – The Prosecution and Defence lawyers were submitting a no jail sentence but the Judge isn’t buying it. This case is of note not only because of its high profile and its seriousness but because this doesn’t happen very often.

Michael Flynn accepted an offer to delay the sentencing when Judge Emmet Sullivan warned he might send the former national security advisor to jail for lying to FBI agents about his conversations for Russia’s ambassador to the United States. Source: Michael Flynn sentencing delayed as judge tells ex-Trump official: ‘You sold your country out’

NEW DRINKING AND DRIVING LAWS – In addition to permitting breath demands without suspicion of drinking, as of today, the minimum and maximum sentences have been increased and the offence has been elevated to the status of “serious criminality”.

Convicted impaired drivers now face stricter penalties, and police officers now have enhanced powers to determine whether drivers are impaired by alcohol or other drugs. Source: This is what you need to know about Canada’s new drunk driving laws

NEW DRINKING AND DRIVING LAWS — BREATH TESTS – Today a police officer has to have a “reasonable suspicion” that a driver has any alcohol whatsoever in his/her body before they can demand a breath sample. Come tomorrow morning they can pull over a driver and demand a breath sample for no reason whatsoever -“no suspicion of nothing” – because they feel like it. Refusal to comply is a criminal offence.

Source: Mandatory alcohol breath tests begin tomorrow for drivers in Canada