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Criminal Law

  • June 12, 2020
  • Photo: "At the protest for the International Day Against Police Brutality" by Grant Neufeld is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
It may be tempting, when watching incidents of police brutality in the United States, to think the problem does not really exist in Canada.  However, police misconduct and a lack of accountability do exist in Canada. Videos recently surfaced of RCMP...

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  • April 4, 2019
Earlier this week, Prime Minister Trudeau removed Ms. Wilson-Raybould and Dr. Jane Philpott from the Liberal party. The reason offered was that recording “conversations without consent” was unacceptable, and that an Attorney General recording a conversation with the Clerk of the...

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  • February 14, 2019
On September 19, 2018, amendments to the Criminal Code came into force establishing Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs), for the first time in Canada. They had at that time escaped the radar, slipped into an omnibus bill, labeled “remediation agreements.” DPAs...

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  • January 9, 2019
Many Canadians, myself included, have friends or family members who have died, or been seriously injured, in highway collisions with semis. Yesterday morning, in a provincial court in my home province of Saskatchewan, the driver of the semi that collided with...

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  • January 4, 2019
In December, 2018, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in R. v. Boudreault that the mandatory surcharge under the Criminal Code is "of no force and effect immediately." The surcharge was provided for in section 737 of the Criminal Code. It...

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  • November 3, 2018
It was one of the worst mining disasters in Canadian history, and it resulted in important changes to the Criminal Code relating to workplace safety. In happened in 1992. An explosion at Westray Mine’s underground coal mine in Nova Scotia killed...

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