In April of 2024, I posted You’re on you own: what to do about it. The point of that article was we really are on our own. Government is not able to protect us, and when government wrongs us, it’s going to move heaven and earth to avoid paying for that harm.
Yes, this means when we need them most, the police aren’t going to be there, and when we don’t want them at all, they just might, particularly if they’re the FBI. More about this shortly.
A Toronto judge has taken the rare step of halting the extradition of an Ontario man to the U.S. to stand trial for child luring after finding his Charter rights were violated by law enforcement and justice officials on this side of the border.
Superior Court Justice Paul Schabas’s decision denounces the actions of the Ontario Provincial Police and provincial and federal Crown attorneys, saying their conduct “violates the community’s sense of fair play and decency and amounts to an abuse of process.”
Canada is putting too many Black Canadians behind bars. Here is what we can do about it
With Black Americans making up only 12.2 per cent of the population, but 32 per cent of the prison population (2021-2022 figures), the high incarceration rates and racial disparities in the U.S. criminal justice system have drawn significant global attention, especially after the police murder of George Floyd.
Less known is the racial disparity in Canada, where Black Canadians account for only 3.5 per cent of the general population but represent 9.2 per cent of the prison population. This means Black Americans are incarcerated approximately 2.62 times their population representation and Black Canadians nearly identical at 2.63 times.
Blacks are incapable of making sound life choices according to this article so must be treated leniently when they commit a criminal act.
And you’re a racist of course.
Take a wander through r/Torontology for a slice of life.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is coming to the defence of a Toronto police officer who was captured on video flipping their middle finger to a citizen during a heated exchange.
“Let’s support our police. Let’s thank them, rather than getting Google Glasses and trying to, you know, harass our police, that’s what I call it. It was harassment,” Ford said of the video while taking questions from the media in Mississauga Wednesday morning.
#WATCH: Toronto police officer flipped off a man who asked about their parking. pic.twitter.com/OhyB9Mg4RP
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) August 5, 2024
Hard to pick a side here.
The videographer was over the top but rules for thee and not for me is a bad look for a public relations problem child like the TPS.
The TPS has been selective about enforcing the rule of law in Toronto.
Their decisions are driven by identity politics and the charge of “Two-Tiered Policing” is a valid complaint.
It seems their primary role is to escort Hamas support rallies and ignore the crime that contributes to Toronto’s deteriorating quality of life.
They always want to be paid more of course and that is no longer sustainable in a city enduring economic decline.
Cops with attitude are all too common and it must be remembered they are not your friend just the paid militia of the government.
UPDATE WARMINGTON: Former Toronto officer’s viral clash with coffee cops leads to probe
“I am satisfied that he is completely reformed,” Code wrote in his decision, which took effect on Oct. 24, 2023.
In court on Friday, Code ruefully revisited those words, finding that the 29-year-old Collins was most likely involved in a downtown Toronto armed robbery that took place just days after his sentence had started.
Landmark report on ‘Canada’s Black Justice Strategy’ calls for major reforms, end to mandatory minimums
Pouring more resources into jobs, housing, health and education, eliminating mandatory minimum sentences and creating a national coordinating agency for Black people are among the major overhauls called for in a landmark report on Canada’s “Black Justice Strategy.”
If implemented, the report concludes, these measures and more could shrink the over-representation of Black and Indigenous people in jail — and create a “justice system that is truly just” for all.
This is just another identity politics scam in advance of the election.
It will be a quick release bonanza for career criminals who have been taught to have zero respect for the white man and his laws.
The following are essential components of a racially fair Canada according to a pair of federally appointed brainstormers: dedicated Black courts and federal departments, racial “decarceration” targets … and, possibly, reparations for slavery.
These measures, numbering 114 in total, were recommended to the federal government by a steering group at the end of June to shape the Liberal government’s forthcoming Black Justice Strategy. It’s an initiative that will be sure to promote disorder and advance the well-being of a select few, if the guiding material is any indication.
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.
Britain is descending into a low-trust society as over half of the British public does not have faith in their increasingly woke police forces to actually solve crimes.
A survey conducted by YouGov for the Times of London found a “devastating lack of confidence” in the police, which in recent years have become increasingly preoccupied with professing their progressive bona fides and acting as woke censors on the internet while real-life criminals run rampant.
This is what happens in a low trust society. Toronto is on its way.
