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WE’RE STILL CLEANING UP THE MESSES, YEARS LATER, FROM HARPER’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL “TOUGH ON CRIME” AGENDA.

https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/practice-areas/criminal/mandatory-minimum-sentences-for-child-luring-unconstitutional-supreme-court-of-canada/381103?hsmemberId={{contact.hs_object_id}}&utm_source=GA&e=ZGpyZWV2ZUBiZWxsbmV0LmNh&utm_medium=20231107&utm_campaign=LTW-Newsletter-20231107&utm_content=60340243-7A36-40AE-831C-5923AFD1310D&tu=60340243-7A36-40AE-831C-5923AFD1310D

MORE COWBELL! – What do the courts do when they can’t handle the number of trials they already set? Well, set more trials, of course.

Ontario’s Court of Justice is issuing new practice directives in a bid to reduce delay and “unnecessary administrative appearances” in criminal proceedings. The three new rules, which take hold Nov. 1, will involve the setting of trial dates in accordance with Jordan principles, the timely handling of s. 11 Charter applications and the enforcement of set adjournments …

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IRONICALLY THE LEGALIZATION OF CANNABIS HAS LED TO MORE INTRUSIVE SEARCH POWERS BY POLICE – “In Ontario, the transportation of marijuana is governed by the Cannabis Control Act, which allows the police, in the absence of any suspected criminal activity, to search any vehicle and all its occupants (if they believe that “any cannabis is contained in the vehicle” and it is “readily available to any person in the vehicle.”) It can’t be understated just how broad the new police search powers are – we are talking about searching anywhere in the vehicle, including the trunk, and all passengers and their belongings, down to the deep pockets, makeup bags, and yes, even bras. So, here’s the big question: if the purpose of the Cannabis Control Act is to make sure drivers don’t have access to cannabis while driving, what’s the deal with searching the vehicle’s trunk? It doesn’t quite add up.” And it gets worse …

https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion/legalized-cannabis-still-has-a-problem-broader-search-and-seizure-police-powers/380698?hsmemberId={{contact.hs_object_id}}&utm_source=GA&e=ZGpyZWV2ZUBiZWxsbmV0LmNh&utm_medium=20231031&utm_campaign=LTW-Newsletter-20231031&utm_content=60340243-7A36-40AE-831C-5923AFD1310D&tu=60340243-7A36-40AE-831C-5923AFD1310D

THE MANDELA EFFECT –  Our memories may be a “factually incorrect recollection. They could strongly believe in something, or strongly believe that they’ve had this experience or this memory, but in actual fact, it’s fantasy,” 

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/18/world/mandela-effect-collective-false-memory-scn?utm_term=16954775615318ceb8287b688&utm_source=cnn_Wonder+Theory+9.23.23&utm_medium=email&bt_ee=Mtah9GOPd1HRbRfWJJdXGCn7jBbufegCh2VKxCDekF%2FVj%2F2CxzJmAFathyAPL5C1&bt_ts=1695477561534

THE MILTON COURTHOUSE UPDATE: Is it healthy and safe? Not so sure.

https://www.lawtimesnews.com/practice-areas/criminal/judges-resume-hearings-at-milton-courthouse-after-voicing-concerns-about-mould-and-asbestos/379825?hsmemberId={{contact.hs_object_id}}&utm_source=GA&e=ZGpyZWV2ZUBiZWxsbmV0LmNh&utm_medium=20230921&utm_campaign=LTW-Newsletter-20230921&utm_content=60340243-7A36-40AE-831C-5923AFD1310D&tu=60340243-7A36-40AE-831C-5923AFD1310D

THE DISGRACE OF ONTARIO’S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM -The old borough courts in commercial/industrial make-shift facilities were a disgrace. Now we have this. “Far too many people in the justice system held their breath during the pandemic, and saw all those virtual trials as a stop-gap to be endured until the old 19th-century model could return in all of its timeless glory.”

For too long, we’ve ignored the infrastructure of justice. Now, our court system is on fire DAVID BUTT SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL PUBLISHED YESTERDAY David Butt is a Toronto-based criminal lawyer. Nobody walks into a home and oohs and ahhs about the electrical wiring. It’s stuff like the furniture and the kitchen counters …

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THE ABUSE OF AUTHORITY – A man steps out of his shower naked to find a female OPP officer standing there to serve him with a traffic ticket from 7 months before.

A gross overreach’: Coquitlam, B.C., man explains why he’s suing RCMP who surprised him naked in his home Ben Miljure COQUITLAM, B.C. – A Coquitlam, B.C., man had just stepped out of the shower and opened the door to his ensuite bathroom while naked when he was startled to find a Mountie standing in the …

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