While the privacy commissioner is advising Canadians to be more careful with their devices when crossing the border with an updated set of guidelines, civil liberties advocates recommend Canadians take every precaution to keep their data secure — from burner phones to encrypted data.
So this guy got charged. “Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office reviewed video of the June 14 incident, and on Friday approved two felony hate crime charges against Timothy Trybus, 62. For first offenders, a felony hate crime in Illinois can result in a prison term of one to three years and a fine of up to $25,000.” Is that overkill or if “Hate crimes have increased at an alarming rate over the past year,” is it necessary? “There should be consequences. People have to learn there are consequences, especially in the era of Trump,” Gutierrez told the Chicago Tribune. “I really do believe there are people who say to themselves, ‘If Trump can do it, I can do it. Why can’t I go out there and say the things the president says?’”
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“The legal fees were suffocating.”
Source: The Mueller probe is hammering Trump’s allies with insane legal bills
R. v. Duncan = CREATIVE JUDICIAL WRITING – Entertaining prose. I enjoyed the appended notes to the text. “You should get out of town”, the man said. And so began the journey that resulted in my path intersecting with Matthew Duncan’s path. And thence to these reasons, with a slight detour through territory that might have confused Lewis Carroll.”
Source: CanLII – 2013 ONCJ 160 (CanLII)
The new Canadian Judicial Council Judicial Education website. http://judicialeducation.cjc-ccm.ca/
Source: Canadian Judicial Education
WHAT DO THEY TEACH AT “JUDGES SCHOOL”? – Find out here.
One of the video courses teaches about how “rape myths” can propagate “rapidly” during a trial.
Source: ‘Rape myths’ can be taught, and Canadian judges could benefit
YEAH, BUT WHATABOUT OBAMA? YEAH, BUT WHATABOUT HILLARY? “According to Merriam-Webster, “whataboutism” is a rhetorical device that “is not merely the changing of a subject (‘What about the economy?’) to deflect away from an earlier subject as a political strategy; it’s essentially a reversal of accusation, arguing that an opponent is guilty of an offence just as egregious or worse than what the original party was accused of doing, however unconnected the offences may be.”
“Whataboutism,” which is currently enjoying an upswing, is just a means to deflect from the original point and dictate the terms of discussion, writes Shree Paradkar.
Source: Opinion | Whataboutism is just a trolling tactic — and it deserves to be shut down
Canada invests in cannabis-impaired driving research.
With legalization on the horizon, the Canadian government has pledged almost $1 million into researching cannabis-impaired driving
Source: Government invests almost $1 million to research cannabis-impaired driving | Daily Hive Toronto
DRUNK DRIVING AND IMMIGRATION – “New amendments to the Criminal Code of Canada mean foreign nationals and permanent residents convicted of impaired driving can now be deemed inadmissible and could face deportation.”
New amendments to the Criminal Code of Canada mean foreign nationals and permanent residents convicted of impaired driving may now be deemed inadmissible and could face deportation.
Source: Canada stiffens sentences for drunk driving, raising new immigrant inadmissibility concerns