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911 CALL INFORMATION MUST BE DISCLOSED – In York Region this information is part of the initial disclosure package but not so in Peel Region. Their policy of non-disclosure is “unfathomable” and “amounts to an abrogation of the Crown’s constitutional obligation. It has exceeded its best before date by about 35 years and should cease immediately.”

The Court of Appeal has blasted a policy in the Peel Region Crown attorney’s office, which did not automatically disclose 911 calls to an accused person. In R. v. M.G.T., the court found the fact that such a policy of non-disclosure existed in a Crown’s office in 2017 was “unfathomable.”

Source: Failure to disclose 911 call information ‘should cease’ | Law Times

“Put your paddles down if you’ve been drinking. Drunk canoeing, kayaking and paddle boarding will continue to be illegal.” It’s an MLE (marijuana legalization effect). Same thing for paddling high.

Source: MPs reverse course on removing canoes, kayaks from impaired driving laws | CTV News

Girls threatened into sex acts on web cam; experts say Internet-only predators have never been charged with sexual assault in Canada

Source: In unprecedented case, Swedish man on trial for ‘raping’ Canadian girls — over the internet

The City of Toronto squared off last week in court against a chain of illegal marijuana dispensaries (“Canna Clinic”) and their owners in a bid to shut the stores down once and for all. The City sought an interim and interlocutory injunct

Source: Toronto’s Bid for Injunction Against Marijuana Dispensaries Under Reserve – Slaw

It’s still a terrible idea, but it may no longer run you the risk of having your driver’s licence suspended and car impounded

Source: Canada set to remove drunk canoeing as an impaired driving offence

ARREST AND PROFIT – Two former chief cops becoming cannabis middlemen. So those cops who were in charge of arresting and giving thousands of Canadians a criminal record for possessing marijuana are now getting into the business for personal profit … as cops continue to arrest us. Does this seem right to you?

Source: Weed Wire | Canada | Former top cops Fantino, Souccar launch marijuana-services business

WHEN THE POLICE DON’T KNOW THE LAW – Another unlawful strip search, another crumbling criminal case. “Nothing in Mr. MacPherson’s pants was running away,” “The officers were ignorant of the law,” the judge wrote. Police failed to follow the case law and their own policies on strip-searching.

A judge has found Toronto police had no reasonable grounds to pull back a man’s pants and boxer shorts at the scene of his arrest to locate drugs concealed near his tail bone.

Source: Judge tosses drug evidence, finds Toronto cops were ‘ignorant’ of strip search law | Toronto Star

The government plan for legalization and regulation of cannabis ignores this significant form of the product and aspect of the market.

MPs studying the government’s cannabis legalization bill heard Friday that excluding edible products from next year’s planned rollout will mean the black market will continue to supply them. A final day of witnesses also included pot activists Jodie and Marc Emery.

Source: Delaying legal edible cannabis products won’t keep them off street, MPs told – Politics – CBC News

LEGALIZATION? Not really. No plans for pardons. Possession is still criminal over 30 grams for adults or 5 grams for youth. Sharing a joint is still a serious criminal offence. And in the interim police will continue to raid storefronts and arrest and charge people for simple possession. Not a good plan.

Teenagers passing joints to slightly younger friends could face sentences of up to 14 years in jail, according to an Ottawa lawyer who testified at hearings on the federal government’s bill to legalize marijuana.

Source: Proposed pot law too harsh on young people, lawyer argues – Ottawa – CBC News

SERIOUSLY? Comments like the industry is run by criminals (duh) and police talking about “how are we going to find out if a person has more than 4 plants in his residence, makes it sound like legalization will bring more police oppression through dynamic entries and more drug charges as the government tries to take over the market.

Senior Canadian police officials tell MPs studying the government’s marijuana legalization legislation that police won’t be ready to enforce new laws by next summer and they ask the government for more time.

Source: ‘Impossible’: Senior police officials tell MPs they won’t be ready for legal cannabis – Politics – CBC News