The Lucy Letby case bears striking similarities to a Canadian nurse wrongly accused of poisoning babies, an eminent neonatologist has said.
Dr Desmond Bohn, who spent 35 years as a paediatric intensive care specialist, was working at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto when nurse Susan Nelles was blamed for the deaths of four infants in her care.
Between June 1980 and March 1981, there was an alarming increase in cardiac deaths on two neonatal wards at the hospital.
An Ontario Conservative MP says the new Black Justice Strategy unveiled by the Liberals will make life worse for blacks and everyone else.
In a thread on Twitter (“X”), Durham MP Jamil Jivani urged Liberals to reject their party’s “troubling recommendations”, predicting such “radical policies…will lead to more crime, drugs and chaos.”
We live in one hell of a chaotic nanny state in Canada.
On Tuesday, moments after reading an official city email warning New Westminster residents that their friendly dogs must be licensed, leashed and kept far away from others to ensure that everyone “feels safe,” I saw the news that an Ontario man caught on video trying to stab someone during a road rage incident had been arrested and released in a span of two days. He was in breach of two court conditions when he was arrested, too. But now he’s out on bail. We can’t allow a chihuahua to lunge at someone, but a knife-wielding man gets a pass. So much for that feeling of safety.
The Court Challenges Program, under which people who claim to have a legitimate grievance against the operation of laws may be publicly subsidized to challenge the wording or implementation of those laws, is on its face an enlightened measure and a commendable recognition by the Canadian federal government that it and other governments in Canada could have inadvertently failed to see damage that could potentially result from ostensibly well-intended legislation and regulation. In principle, any admission by government of its potential fallibility is a good thing that would seem to moderate what Shakespeare called ”the insolence of office:” the blank authoritarian inhumanity with which governments frequently dictate people’s conduct and exact taxes and submission from them. Unfortunately, the appearance of a becoming humility helping to shape government conduct can be deceiving and in this case everything depends on the causes that the Court Challenges Program actually supports.
In January, the Federal Court found that the Trudeau government’s use of the Emergencies Act to respond to the protests of the self-styled freedom convoy in 2022 was not properly justified — a decision the federal government is now appealing.
At the time, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre celebrated that ruling.
“Today, in a landmark victory for the freedoms of Canadians, the Federal Court ruled that Trudeau broke the highest law in the land,” he said in a prepared statement, apparently referring to the Charter of Rights and Freedom.
CBC is getting more like Rachel Gilmore every day.
Non-citizens who commit crimes in Canada shouldn’t get discounted sentences simply so they can avoid deportation. But in the Canadian justice system, that’s exactly what happens. We are beholden to judges who believe the rules apply differently to everyone.
Pulling someone over for driving while Black — indefensible. Suspecting someone of being a shoplifter by virtue of their skin colour — unconscionable.
Toronto police chief Myron Demkiw has walked back the controversial comment that he’d been “hoping for a different outcome” in the trial of Umar Zameer, the man acquitted over the weekend of deliberately police Const. Jeffrey Northrup in the line of duty.
But he stopped short of criticizing his predecessor, former police chief James Ramer, who in the hours after the July 2, 2021, fatal collision dubbed Zameer’s actions in the plainclothes officer’s death “intentional” and “deliberate” — a position that was eventually rejected by Zameer’s jury and criticized by the judges who oversaw his case.
A jury has acquitted Umar Zameer in the death of Toronto police Const. Jeffrey Northrup, accepting that what happened in the parking garage below Nathan Phillips Square early July 2, 2021 was a horrible, tragic accident and not a crime.
On Sunday, after two days of deliberations, jurors found the 34-year-old accountant not guilty of all charges including first- and second-degree murder and manslaughter. Zameer was on trial for first-degree murder because Northrup was a police officer killed in the execution of his duties.
“The obvious injustice perpetrated against Cst. Brisco by less-than-ethical police management and pseudo-jurists at the police commission is an odious display of malicious prosecution of Brisco and by implication of any honest police officer….”
Cait Alexander does not consider herself a victim of domestic violence, but rather, a victim of the Canadian justice system.
The criminal case for her ex-boyfriend, accused of trying to kill her in 2021, was rescheduled twice before it was ultimately dropped. She was granted a restraining order and sent on her way.
“I was told my attempted murder is not a priority,” Alexander told reporters at a press conference at Queen’s Park Thursday. “This means an extremely violent abuser is freed without a single consequence.”
Four Years and Counting…
As a former police officer I’ve personally witnessed an abhorrent amount of suffering from those who lost their businesses, homes, and careers in the last four years. While a small minority of ultra wealthy gamed the system to the tune of billions, the vast majority of Canadians have not done well financially or otherwise – the result of tyrannical government decisions and those who supported the decisions by remaining silent.
It’s an article of faith among Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) that minorities, particularly black people, are far more harshly treated by the Criminal Justice System than whites. The “evidence” usually cited for this, apart from “because we say so,” or “experts say,” is disparate impact. If black people are arrested and convicted in greater numbers than their percentage of the population, that’s prima facie evidence of racism and disparate impact. Why else could so many black people become “justice system-involved individuals?”
Glynn Simmons took a long glance out the window of the car passenger seat as he drove with a friend along the freeway to Tulsa, Oklahoma. His gaze was fixated on the night sky, lit up with stars.
It was a sight the 70-year-old had not been able to witness for nearly half a century, after spending most of his life in prison for a murder he did not commit.
“It’s things like that … watching the seasons change, the foliage, simple things that you couldn’t do in prison. You couldn’t enjoy it. You couldn’t see it,” Mr Simmons told the BBC. “It’s exhilarating.”
The family of a woman shot by an officer in Edmonton during a wellness check says her death was unnecessary, as the number of police shootings across Canada show little sign of relenting over the past four years.
