A Superior Court judge has refused to enforce Ontario’s new cash bail system in a stunning rebuke just days after the controversial rules came into effect.
On Wednesday in Milton, Justice Scott Cowan released a woman charged with human trafficking without a cash deposit, in direct violation of the new law that demands payment in full within 48 hours.
A Thunder Bay judge has issued an absolute discharge so an Indian trucker who pleaded guilty to dangerous driving in a fatal crash can avoid deportation.
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice heard Ajitpal Singh was driving too close behind another truck that lost control and jackknifed on Highway 102 in December 2021, killing the driver of a truck heading in the opposite direction, and severely injuring a passenger.
The joke that initially cost comedian Mike Ward $42,000 had to do with a boy known to Quebec as “Le Petit Jérémy” — Jérémy Gabriel — a regional celebrity who sang for the Pope when he was little. Gabriel has Treacher-Collins syndrome.
“He was kind of like a Make-a-Wish Foundation type kid, right?” Ward told Joe Rogan when he went on the podcast in 2018.
