“Justice”

The Brampton judge described his slaying of his ex-partner while their son slept as one of the “most gruesome and horrific” cases of second-degree murder that she’s seen in her decade on the bench.

Superior Court Justice Jennifer Woollcombe still reduced Linval Ritchie’s period of parole ineligibility by two years — from 20 to 18 years — because of the “degrading and humiliating” Charter violations he suffered when he was stripsearched, ziptied and left in his boxers for hours during an infamous inmate crackdown at Maplehurst prison in December 2023 that is now the subject of an investigation by the province’s ombudsman.

Reform might be surging in the Red Wall, but there’s at least one resident of County Durham — specifically, of HMP Frankland — who will be hoping the party doesn’t sweep to power at the next election. Apparently envisaging British justice as a reality show presented by Danny Dyer, Nigel Farage recently announced his intention to send 10,000 of our most violent criminals to draconian jails abroad. “If that means that Ian Huntley goes to El Salvador, well our attitude is, so be it,” the Reform leader declared.

Alberta-based lawyer James Kitchen has been litigating for years. As a self-described libertarian lawyer focused on human rights and individual freedoms, he has taken on cases involving issues such as freedom of expression, Charter challenges, and parental rights.

For him, it has become an increasingly uphill battle. He says that although parental rights are protected by law, Canada’s justice system has become “highly politicized,” creating a gap between the legal reality and what the law states on paper.

The Québec Superior Court’s order of 24 July 2025 that sent Montréal YouTuber Hicham Jerando to jail for thirty days was triggered less by his on-screen attacks on Moroccan judge Abdelrahim Hanin than by his open defiance of a Québec injunction ordering him to take those videos down—contempt, not content, put him behind bars.

The complainant’s testimony was not credible (that’s the judge speaking) but she certainly did take the stand with an attitude of presumed credibility (that’s me speaking).

She did those things, said those things, enticed those things — a succubus who aggressively demanded the sex acts that unfolded in room 209 of the Delta Armouries Hotel more than seven years ago — maybe even initiated them. No evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that consent wasn’t given, from hookup start with a hunky hockey player to tawdry finish with five hockey players variously sexually serviced. Oral sex, vaginal sex and moaning masturbatory sex for their stunned amusement.