There are strict guidelines about when a careless driving charge can be offered to resolve an impaired/80+ charge and the terms of the sentence are significant.
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A MADE IN CANADA MODEL
Decriminalization or legalization? “A Canadian approach, in short—recognizing that Portugal’s model is now 20 years old and that thinking has moved forward dramatically—might go far beyond Portugal by dismantling the sustaining structures of racialized prohibition.”
WHY ARE THE POLICE STILL CHARGING?
“As long as police can arrest a youth and lay the charge of simple possession, the health risks we’ve each seen in social work, the emergency room and legal aid will remain unchanged.” https://www.newmarkettoday.ca/local-news/canada-simple-drug-possession-should-be-treated-as-a-health-issue-not-a-criminal-one-experts-say-2716619
“WHAT DO YOU MEAN I CAN’T GET TRANSCRIPTS?”
A neglected area of zoom transition. “ACTs have been complaining about some of the issues noted above for a long time, but the move to “distance” hearings via Zoom or telephone is shining a very strong light on a systemic lack of care and indicates a culture of indifference regarding transcripts.” https://www.thelawyersdaily.ca/criminal/articles/21393/-what-do-you-mean-i-can-t-get-transcripts-?nl_pk=e4bafb6e-ffa7-4833-b477-9f421fa87f62&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=criminal
WE ARE NEVER GOING BACK TO THE OLD NORMAL
“Other planned initiatives include the digitization of the provincial criminal justice system.”
Discouraging prosecutions of drug possession. – “Why are we charging in the first place?
https://nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles/law/in-depth/2020/discouraging-prosecutions-of-drug-possession
Social gatherings are again limited to 10 persons indoors. This is going to drastically affect, amongst many other things, jury trials and perhaps even in-person trials in those areas.
https://www.blogto.com/city/2020/09/gathering-limit-toronto-lowered/
Why are police still charging youth with simple drug possession? – It’s a good question. The case for decriminalization
https://www.lawtimesnews.com/business-news/why-are-police-still-charging-youth-with-simple-drug-possession/333349?utm_source=GA&utm_medium=20200917&utm_campaign=LTW-Newsletter-20200917&utm_content=60340243-7A36-40AE-831C-5923AFD1310D&tu=60340243-7A36-40AE-831C-5923AFD1310D
The experiment of resuming jury selection and jury trials has begun.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/09/16/jury-selection-typically-happens-at-superior-court-at-361-university-ave-on-wednesday-it-moved-to-the-metro-toronto-convention-centre-to-allow-for-social-distancing.html?source=newsletter&utm_content=a09&utm_source=ts_nl&utm_medium=email&utm_email=0B41BB051FF7EA38DB4BDD5E33BA3AB2&utm_campaign=tmh_31151
COVID-19 IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR POSITIVE CHANGE –
“We need to recognize that the criminal justice system has been tasked to solve all of society’s ills, including mental illness, drug addiction, family breakdown, joblessness, and spontaneous violence as well as the terrible crimes committed by the few.” This has to stop.