Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed new legislation to overhaul the country’s conscription system, which will make it harder for Russians to avoid being called up for military service, and keep at least some of those who already fled the country away longer.
Putin signed the bill, which was hastily passed by Russia’s upper and lower houses of parliament this week, into law on Friday.
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its 14th month, the move will create a system where conscription and draft notices will be delivered electronically through a widely used government services portal instead of being hand-delivered.…
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Battered Women’s Support Services is substantially expanding a legal clinic in Vancouver for women who have experienced domestic violence.Advertisements 2This advertisement has not been loaded yet, but…
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has determined that while the City of Cambridge breached its own procedural bylaw, it will also reject an application from a citizens’ committee to review the building of an Amazon Warehouse.
The citizens’ committee was Blair Engaged – who were seeking a judicial review of a decision made by the City of Cambridge to allow for a one million square foot warehouse/distribution center within the Blair Village Heritage Conservation District. Amazon has said the one-million-square-foot warehouse will create more than 1,000 jobs.
An Amazon warehouse under construction in the Village of Blair. (Colton Wiens/CTV…
Allison Jones, The Canadian Press
Published Monday, April 3, 2023 6:18PM EDT
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TORONTO – Ontario has not yet put a four-year-old policing law overhaul into effect, which includes allowing officers to be suspended without paying more often, but the solicitor general said Monday he’s directing it to be done “as soon as possible.”
Michael Kerzner was asked Monday in question period about the law that has been sitting on the books since 2019 in light of news reports about an Ontario Provincial Police…
Donald Trump’s defense lawyers blasted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush-money case on Tuesday, saying it lacks the kind of convincing detail he’ll need for a slam-dunk prosecution against the first-ever former president to face criminal prosecution.
A number of legal experts and former prosecutors, however, said Bragg was smart to leave out critical details of his case in order to gain competitive advantage over Trump’s aggressive team of lawyers and political influencers.
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Covering up “crimes relating to the 2016 election”
The indictment handed up…
Unlawful Police Power, Going To Jail NSW And Over-Policing
“Over-policing” of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is an issue that was highlighted by the Redfern Legal Center head of police accountability and government law, Samantha Lee. Ms Lee cited tougher bail laws, more police powers and the Suspect Targeting Management Plan (STMP), that’s unique to NSW, as reasons for the inequity.
Lawyer and advocate Samantha Lee identified that NSW police were unlawfully strip searching Australians. It was for this reason that the RLC began the ‘Safe & Sound’ campaign, in order to stop the high number of police strip…
Democrats support the indictment of former President Donald Trump whether it has legal standing or not because convicting him is a life-or-death struggle for their political survival, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said.
“I do think it’s sort of a parallel to crossing the Rubicon, which was the moment when Roman Law was shattered,” Gingrich said on “Life, Liberty & Levin.”
“I would say that what happened was that Donald Trump came out of nowhere and was the first person to have the courage and the willpower to take on the entire corrupt, extremist establishment, and they’re fighting in the…
Prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney’s office escalated 34 charges against Donald Trump to felony by arguing the former president concocted a scheme to conceal election law violations and deceive tax authorities, the unsealed indictment showed on Tuesday.The grand jury charged the former president with falsifying business records after Trump’s reimbursement to his then fixer Michael Cohen for $130,000 in hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016 were falsely recorded as legal expenses.
But falsifying business records is normally a misdemeanor offense, unless prosecutors can show that a defendant intends to commit, aid or conceal…