Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday that Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino should resign over his handling of convicted killer Paul Bernardo’s controversial prison transfer.
CBC News reported Tuesday that Mendicino’s office knew for months that one of Canada’s most high-profile murderers would be moved by Correctional Service Canada (CSC) to a medium-security institution.
A man who brutally attacked a mother outside her children’s daycare will serve four years in prison instead of nine years after Alberta’s top court found a judge failed to properly assess how the accused’s Indigenous background affected his level of culpability.
He was Indigenous? Well in that case Mom had it comin.
h/t Lesley
The body count in recent months has been grim and frightening.
Reported crime on Toronto’s transit system increased to more than 1,000 incidents in 2022, up 60 per cent since 2019, even while ridership has declined 30 per cent.
And this was before 16-year-old Gabriel Magalhaes was stabbed to death at a TTC subway station by an unhoused man with many assault convictions who was on probation. It was the fourth homicide on the transit system in less than a year. Nationally, nine police officers have been killed in the line of duty over the same time period.
May cause a rise in blood pressure.
The federal government is proposing changes to the country’s bail system that would make it harder for those accused of certain offences to be released on bail.
Bill C-48 would amend the Criminal Code so that those charged with a serious violent offence involving a weapon — one with a maximum penalty of ten years’ imprisonment — who were convicted of a similar offence within the last five years will face a reverse onus to get bail.
“Reverse onus” means the accused would have to show why they should be released instead of the prosecution having to prove that they should remain behind bars.
Daniel Penny, the Marine facing a manslaughter charge in the subway chokehold killing of Jordan Neely, is being “railroaded,” outraged friends and family told The Post Saturday.
Loved ones are angry at the rush to judgment over Neely’s death and those who have branded Penny a “murderer” for the May 1 incident on a Manhattan subway train.
Equality under the law is the cornerstone of liberal democracy. But judges across the country are now factoring race into sentencing.
Edward Smith didn’t think the color of his skin had anything to do with it.
He was 23, and he’d come to Canada in 2005 from West Africa. Now, he lived with his mother and sister in Edmonton, the capital of the western province of Alberta.
Racism—overt or systemic—didn’t make him take part in an armed robbery of an Airbnb in July 2019, he said. He’d decided on his own to help his cousin, who had told Smith that the people staying at the Airbnb had robbed him and that he was trying to get his money back. Smith agreed to help, but he didn’t want any guns involved. So they compromised: they’d bring a gun, but it would be unloaded.
A New York City mother-of-three who plowed her BMW into a group of Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020 walked free from court on Monday having been sentenced to just five hours of community service as part of a plea agreement with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
Kathleen Casillo, 53, was facing the possibility of up to seven years in prison if convicted in the December 2020 incident that left six people injured.
Under the deal, Casillo pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor, she will have the charge reduced to a disorderly conduct violation if she fulfills her sentence and stays out of trouble for six months, prosecutors and her lawyer said.
Federal Justice Minister David Lametti is right when he says passing federal legislation to toughen bail conditions for repeat violent offenders — which he says he will introduce during the current session of Parliament — won’t in and of itself address legitimate concerns about public safety.
He’s also right, as he told the CBC’s The House on Saturday, that Ottawa alone can’t address the problem of violence — that provinces and municipalities have a responsibility as well.
Nearly 80 percent of Americans believe there is a two-tiered justice system. This week’s courtroom episodes only validate the public’s perception.
On Friday, President Joe Biden’s allegedly “non-binary” nuclear waste expert, Sam Brinton, was sentenced in a grand larceny case over stealing women’s luggage from U.S. airports. Police say Brinton stole a bag from Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas with an estimated worth of around $3,670. Authorities also charged Brinton with stealing luggage at a second airport in Minnesota.
Perhaps when Edmonton police arrest someone in the transit stabbing that occurred at a Mill Woods bus stop on Thursday, it will turn out the suspect was not mentally ill, addicted, homeless, radicalized or recently released from our porous justice system.
Cop killer Jeffrey Breese was not only granted full parole for the 1982 deadly shooting of OPP officer Rick Hopkins, he was also able to get the assistance afforded to Indigenous applicants going before parole board.
Only Breese is not Indigenous.
Two weeks ago, Philadelphia agreed to pay $9.25 million in a settlement to hundreds of protesters claiming to be victims of police brutality during the 2020 George Floyd protests. In a class-action lawsuit consolidating four federal cases, the plaintiffs allege that police “[chased] residents into their homes and indiscriminately fire[d] canisters of tear gas at them,” causing them to sustain immense “physical and emotional injuries.”
When Bobby Bostic was released from prison in November, 27 years into a 241-year sentence, lots of things seemed strange.
From wireless earphones (“Why are dudes talking to themselves?”), to people talking to their speaker (“I’m like, what is Alexis?”), to self-service drink machines (“You wave your hand and the water comes out?”), the world is much changed, compared to December 1995.
But strangest of all were the people.
“It’s how friendly they are, compared to prison,” the 44-year-old says. “You go into a grocery store, and it’s ‘Sir, can I help you?’ In prison, you got nothing but mean mugs [faces] and harassment…”
Ontario Court of Appeal denies lesser sentences for Indigenous men in meth dealing case
The Ontario Court of Appeal has rejected a father-son meth dealing team’s request for a sentencing reduction based on their Indigenous background, ruling that deterrence comes before consideration of historical oppression for those convicted of serious drug crimes.
The ruling – upholding seven-year jail sentences for both the father and son – is the latest to consider how the particular circumstances of Indigenous offenders should affect everything from sentences to bail to what a jury is permitted to hear about the accused during a trial.
Clark and his law firm send out more than 100,000 warnings every year and he’s sued thousands. Some say he’s harassing regular people for profit — but to others, he’s Canada’s copyright cop
It’s an email no one wants to get, but thousands of Canadians get one every month: “Important notice regarding your internet activity,” the subject line says. It looks like spam, but you click through just in case.
At the top of the message is a note from your internet service provider explaining that the law requires it to forward you the email below — and that’s when you get nervous.
The message, from an American movie studio, says your computer’s IP address was used to illegally distribute one of their movies. The email instructs you to remove the file and stop downloading or uploading copyright-protected content without permission.
