Criminal
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October 16, 2025
New report urges ‘common sense’ Ontario bail system reforms
With the federal government promising action on bail reform, a new report from a criminal justice reform organization is calling for Ontario to take steps to strengthen the provincial bail system through what it calls “common sense” changes.
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October 15, 2025
Doug Ford shouldn’t boast about his parking lot shenanigans
Members of the public were taken aback earlier this week to hear Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford loudly boasting about threatening to give a stranger “a beating like he’s never got before.” Criminal lawyers were even more shocked by the premier’s telling of the tale, which he summed up with “that’s what you have to do.” According to comments attributed to him in a Toronto Star piece on Oct. 14, Ford was outraged, indeed filled with rage during the incident, when he also threatened to “kick [the person’s] ass all over the parking lot.”
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October 15, 2025
Canadian victims of $15M U.S.-based fraud encouraged to seek compensation
The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) is encouraging B.C. victims of a U.S.-based $15 million pyramid and Ponzi scheme to file their claims with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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October 15, 2025
Is Doug Ford endorsing vigilantism?
Starting around 2020–2021, police departments in British Columbia, especially in Vancouver, Victoria and Kelowna reported sharp increases in repeat property crimes, assaults, and random stranger attacks downtown. Police chiefs and mayors described a pattern of people being arrested but released back onto the street within hours.
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October 15, 2025
A veteran correctional officer’s take on personal self defence: The Kurt Suss three-foot rule
21:45 hours. Recreation was announced closed at one of Canada’s largest high medium penitentiaries. “Return to your units,” echoed over the loudspeakers in the gym and the rec field.
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October 14, 2025
Privacy regulators discuss AI, cybersecurity and data risks in annual meeting
Federal, provincial and territorial information and privacy commissioners, along with ombudspersons responsible for access and privacy laws, concluded their two-day meeting in Banff focusing on emerging issues including cybersecurity risks, protection of children online and the use of AI in tribunals, the legal practice and health care.
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October 14, 2025
New housing projects for victims of interpersonal violence coming to Saskatchewan
In a bid to increase support for victims of interpersonal violence, the governments of Saskatchewan and Canada have opened two new affordable housing projects in the city of Prince Albert.
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October 09, 2025
Manitoba premier digs in on legislature remarks on bail system
Despite a scolding from two prominent lawyers’ groups, Manitoba’s premier is standing by remarks he made in the legislature about an ongoing court case as part of his criticism of the bail system.
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October 10, 2025
Self-represented litigant loses bid to include trial transcripts
It is common knowledge that when a person testifies, the witness promises to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That is because the judge, the decision-maker, needs the whole truth to render a just decision. What happens when an appeals court faces a situation where the “whole” truth is not put before it?
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October 10, 2025
Marineland belugas deserve legal protection, not posturing and politics
In 2019, Canada enacted groundbreaking federal law banning the capture and breeding of whales, dolphins and porpoises for entertainment, the Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act, also known as the “Free Willy” bill, whereby Canadian facilities are not allowed to hold, breed or import whales and dolphins.