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“The Tories tried hard to tie judges’ hands by bringing in a slew of mandatory minimum sentences for crimes including those involving guns, drugs, and sex abuse. They also imposed a victim surcharge that criminals must pay, even if they have no money. And made it harder to get pardons.” And that’s just the area …
Continue reading “FIXING WHAT HE BROKE – Harper’s ugly legacy of over-reaching legislation”
How can this be a bad thing? “The changes mark a fundamental shift to a less “punitive” approach to criminal justice. Many of the criminal justice reforms brought in over the last decade were ad hoc and ineffective. They were rapid-fire reforms and often came without a lot of in-depth study and certainly without a …
American police “have begun sitting in their cars while crimes occur” because they don’t want to be held accountable by being video recorded and “that filming cops is causing an increase in crime”. “Cops refusing to do their jobs is not the fault of activists; it is the fault of those officers who have so …
“I recognize the need to empower judges and to uphold the discretion that judges have in particular circumstances, and (will be) looking more fundamentally or broadly at the criminal justice system in terms of restorative justice and rehabilitation,” Justice Minister Wilson-Raybould said. “Not just simply being tough on crime.” I’m looking forward to a renewed …
Alright guys, let’s NOT have this conversation. Okay?
“Stephen Harper left an ironic legal legacy: a stronger rights charter and emboldened judges, with the Supreme Court more front-and-centre than ever.” Stephen Harper left an ironic legal legacy: a stronger rights charter and emboldened judges, with the Supreme Court more front-and-centre than ever. Source: Stephen Harper’s accidental legal legacy – The Globe and Mail
There is so much in this world and in human behaviour that I don’t understand I find my brain almost constantly firing off the inquiry “WHAT????”. (This is also the case with a lot of court judgments.) The problem is often found in the media sensationalizing things by skewing, spinning, withholding or misleading the facts …
THE WAR ON DRUGS – it’s time it went the way the war in Vietnam went. It was a bad idea, it hasn’t worked, it’s resulted in death, damage, incarceration and destruction and it’s time is over. We wouldn’t even be forging the trail but rather following the leaders. “Addiction is not a choice, it’s …
Continue reading “Irish Government To Decriminalize Heroin, Cocaine, And Marijuana | ThinkProgress”
THERE’S A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE to restore Canada to the free and democratic status we enjoyed a decade ago. We’ll be here to inform you of the changes to our criminal law and what it means, as they happen. As Justin Trudeau’s newly named justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould faces several of the …