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ANGELINA CODINA – Disbarred lawyer imprisoned…again…for giving unlicensed immigration advice.

Angelina Codina has been sentenced to jail for 7 years for giving immigration advice without a license and counselling an applicant to lie — conducts described as ‘evil’ by an Ontario court.

Source: Ungovernable unlicensed immigration adviser gets 7-year jail term | The Star

Fentanyl production, worldwide distribution, money laundering, global real estate investment by Chinese gangs explained in a 1:45 min. video.

GOOGLE-HAPPY JURORS ARE A NO NO.

Jurors in three recent cases were discovered conducting their own online research, despite strict instructions from judges to consider only the evidence raised in court.

Source: How Google-happy jurors are derailing Ontario trials | The Star

UNINTENDED IMMIGRATION CONSEQUENCES OF INCREASING THE MAXIMUM SENTENCE FOR IMPAIRED DRIVING TO 10 YEARS.

Canadian lawyers’ associations say the Liberal government’s new impaired driving offences could lead to “significant strain” on the immigration system and at the border from increases in deportations, inadmissibility, appeals and administrative burden. The new ten-year maximum penalty provisions in Bill C-46 bring impaired driving offences under ‘serious criminality’ in Canadian law. That means just […]

Source: Liberals’ impaired driving regime could lead to deportations, border ‘strain’ – iPolitics

The status of mandatory minimum sentences in Canada.

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TELL THE TRUTH OR NO? – Look, I simply repost this as a PSA. Blair’s advice to tell the truth about pot at the border is ‘dangerous,’ U.S. lawyer warns

Liberal MP Bill Blair’s advice to “always tell the truth” if asked about past marijuana use by U.S. border officials is “dangerous,” a U.S. immigration lawyer says.

Source: Blair’s advice to tell the truth about pot at the border is ‘dangerous,’ U.S. lawyer warns

CRIMINAL RECORD CHECKS AND NON-CONVICTION RECORDS – Finally, after almost 2 years we’ll have the protection people need from mere allegations made to the police.

Nearly three years after it was passed unanimously by the Ontario legislature, the Police Record Checks Reform Act will become law on Nov. 1. It will severely limit the release of police “non-conviction records” that have thwarted careers and ruined lives, as detailed in a Star investigation.