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

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

ARREST AND PROFIT – Two former chief cops becoming cannabis middlemen.

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.

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