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

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.

Source: Law protecting Ontarians from disclosure of police records finally gets green light | The Star

SUBTLE ABUSIVE BEHAVIOUR – Stonewalling, Gaslighting, Duplicity, Guilt, Memory Loss and Sarcasm. Learn to recognize them.

Much is written about overt abusive behavior, the kind of in-your-face actions that are easily recognizable to virtually anyone. Those more obvious forms of abusive behavior include behaviors such as yelling, screaming, name calling, threatening and intimidating as well as physical forms of violence such as hitting, kicking, pushing, shoving and strangulation up to stabbing […]

Source: The Six Strategies of Subtle Emotional and Psychological Abuse

WHAT IS THE AGE OF CONSENT? – Let’s be clear. The age of legal ability to consent for sexual purposes is 16 years of age EXCEPT if you pay in any respect for any sexual purpose or service, THEN the age of consent is 18 years of age. Make sure you know the difference.

A Charlottetown man who promised to pay a girl big money for a photo shoot at the beach has been sentenced to six months in jail, after coaxing the 17-year old youth into sending nude photos of herself.

Source: 6 months jail for man who lured teen into sending nude photos | CBC News