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R. v. Gauthier, 2013 SCC 32 upholds the defence of abandonment from a common intent to commit a crime.  Many, including this writer, doubted such defence existed in Canada. Well, it does and the Court holds: [38]                          Thus, it was held that a defence of abandonment has three essential elements:  (1) there must be

I’ve just noticed that Donald Savoie, at the head of his columns, is referred to as a policy expert. As a description. that is absurd. They never referred to Dr. Cleary as a medical expert. In fact, no critic of shale gas or of the Irvings, has ever been referred

‘The [Canada Elections] Act provides that an elected candidate who fails to provide documents required … may not continue to sit or vote as a member until the corrections have been made.’(Excerpt from a letter from Elections Canada to Speaker Andrew Scheer .. a letter that Speaker Scheer has been

(click on image to enlarge) As early as 2005, after the rail line was discontinued and the City of Ottawa purchased the bridge for possible future public transit use the NCC proposed using the bridge as a pedestrian and cycling bridge (Wikipedia: The Ottawa Citizen. (15 November 2005), NCC plans

Number 2 as in pooh.Chicken pooh.Abbotsford, a city in the Fraser Valley just east of Vancouver, has a problem with homeless people.  Instead of providing them with a place to live the folks who run that community thought it would be better to drop tons of chicken manure in the

Not the city though.  Although I think Laketown has a ring to it. No, it is the Toronto Raptors, who, by the way, suck. They, the people who run the Raptors, think that a name change after 18 years is in order.  I suppose the fact that they, the Raptors,

Humpty Dumpty is teetering on his wall. Michael Den Tandt writes in the Postmedia papers: Edmonton MP Brent Rathgeber’s resignation from the Conservative caucus, which dropped inside the Ottawa bubble like a little concussion grenade late Wednesday, represents more than the loss of a single MP among the 164 Tories

An extremely important conference is being held today on the future of Mount Royal–but it may be too late.  In a couple of years, four health establishments on the flanks of the mountain will be vacated as they move to two super hospitals now under construction.  Getting agreement on where