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Crime“In my experience it is unusual for a person to withdraw from a judicial position so soon after being appointed”Published March 01, 2023 • Last updated 2 days ago • 2 minute read
7 CommentsLionel Chartrand discusses a case outside the Edmonton Law Courts in April 2022. Photo by Jonny Wakefield /PostmediaArticle content
An Edmonton defense lawyer recently appointed as a provincial court judge has decided to return to private practice, the provincial government says.Advertisements 2This advertisement has not been loaded yet, but your article continues below.THIS CONTENT…
This column is an opinion by Robyn Schleihauf, a writer and a lawyer based in Dartmouth, NS. For more information about CBC’s Opinion section, please see the FAQ.
It is no secret that the courts — and other bodies, such as provincial and federal human rights commissions, landlord and tenant boards, workers compensation boards, utility and review boards, etc. — are behind the times when it comes to technology.
For decades, these bodies repeatedly failed to adopt new technologies. Many courts still rely primarily on couriers and fax machines. The COVID-19 pandemic forced a suite of changes in the justice…
CAPE TOWN, Feb 9 (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday declared a national “state of disaster” over his country’s crippling power shortages, saying they posed an existential threat to the economy and social fabric.
The electricity crunch has been years in the making, a product of delays in building new coal-fired power stations, corruption in coal-supply contracts, criminal sabotage and failures to ease up regulation to enable private providers to swiftly bring renewable energy on tap.
“We are in the grip of a profound energy crisis,” Ramaphosa said in his annual State of the…
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice is set to determine if the historic trees at Osgoode Hall in Toronto will live beyond this week.
The court granted the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) an interim injunction on Sunday that prevented Metrolinx from chopping down the mature trees for Ontario Line subway station construction.
But on Friday, the interim injunction will expire at midnight, unless the order is extended.
A virtual hearing is taking place on Thursday afternoon in the hope of extending the current temporary pause on tree removal until the Toronto City Council can consider an Ontario Heritage Act…
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Kyle Busch was detained at a Mexican airport late last month when a handgun and ammunition were discovered in his luggage, the NASCAR star acknowledged this week, apologizing for the incident and calling it “a mistake.”
Busch was sentenced this month to 3 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay a US$1,000 fine for having a gun and ammunition, a punishment handed down by a judge in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, home to beach destinations Cancun and Tulum .
The federal Attorney General’s Office said the judge decided to allow a conditional punishment and…
Two women connected with separate but similar dog attacks on two different southern Ontario trails concur that getting justice through municipal authorities has been a “nightmare.”Tamara Dufour and Leanne Schmidt are convinced two attacks, which come almost a year apart, involve the same dog and owner, who may have circumvented authorities after the animals were designated as “dangerous.”
“My adrenaline is surging right now after recounting all of this,” said Schmidt, relaying how his son Kai was attacked by one of two German Shepherds on the rail trail between Paris and Glen Morris in May.
“It should have been…
On April 27, Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act (OSA), received royal assent. This new law amends the Broadcasting Act and will have significant implications for providers of digital streaming services.
The OSA creates a new class of broadcast undertakings (“online undertakings”) under the Broadcasting Act and subjects them to a number of new requirements comparable to those already imposed on traditional radio and television broadcasters in Canada. The OSA defines “online undertaking” broadly as an undertaking for the transmission or retransmission of programs over the Internet for reception by the public by means of broadcasting receiving apparatus – a…
Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Perrion Winfrey finally got some good news a week after getting robbed at gunpoint by six masked men.
Police in Harris County, Texas, arrested Winfrey in April 2023 on misdemeanor assault charges after a woman he was dating accused her of grabbing her hand and causing “bodily injury,” according to court records obtained by ESPN.
However, Winfrey completed a pretrial diversion program, and the court has now dropped the charges ahead of his next court date, scheduled for July 11. With that, Winfrey returned to Browns’ minicamp practice after spending the previous two days working out…