Source: Conditional sentences don’t count as jail time in immigration law: Supreme Court | CTV News
Suicidal motorist who badly injured 74-year-old woman has jail sentence reduced. Who’s right?
I find this to be a good example of the balancing of aggravating and mitigating factors that are considered in the determination of sentence. Who do you think was right? The sentencing Judge or the Appeal Court?
In finding the sentencing judge had gone too far, Ontario’s top court ruled on Wednesday that Constantinus Dedeckere should be released after having spent one year behind bars.
Source: Suicidal motorist who badly injured 74-year-old woman has jail sentence reduced | Toronto Star
Compliment or Sexual Harassment: Where do you Draw the Line? – Slaw
COMPLIMENT OR SEXUAL HARASSMENT – “Sometimes there is a fine line between complimenting a female co-worker and sexually harassing her. A single comment of a sexual nature can amount to sexual harassment.” Do you think it’s a good policy to simply refrain from complimenting any woman in the workplace?
Written wholly by Doug Macleod Employment and labour lawyer at MacLeod Law on First Reference Talks Despite a number of legislative initiatives that are intended to reduce and ultimately eliminate sexual harassment in society, sexual harassment conti
Source: Compliment or Sexual Harassment: Where do you Draw the Line? – Slaw
BARCODE FRAUD – Protect those barcodes!
BARCODE FRAUD – As if it isn’t difficult enough to get a good ticket with all those bots sucking them up, when you do get one be sure to protect that barcode
THERE IS NO REAL PRIVACY – Not anymore!
Police can capture an astronomical amount of information through new technologies, and privacy lawyers say there is little oversight or accountability.
Failure to disclose 911 call information ‘should cease’ | Law Times
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
DRUNK CANOEING – Oops. Never mind.
“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
INTERNET RAPE? – IMHO it would be better to define a new offence than to tortuously bend the definition of a well-understood word to the breaking point.
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 WAR FOR ACCESS AND CONTROL OF THE RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA MARKET IN ONTARIO IS IN FULL SWING.
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
IMPAIRED CANOEING = IMPAIRED DRIVING? Jump in a canoe after a brew … or two? No, no, no. You could lose your driver’s license. Looks like they’re changing that.
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