Tough on crime, short on facts
Crime should not be a political football. Conservative or liberal means nothing when it comes to facts - two plus two equals four no matter where you fall on the…
James C Morton
Maple Leaf Foods Plans Investments, Plant Closures To Boost Profits
Blue collar jobs pay as well as, if not better than, office jobs. But industrial jobs are vanishing. This is a major problem and it will get worse; not everyone…
What if 500 Occupy Toronto protesters joined the Conservative Party?
It's a soggy day at Occupy Toronto. But the protesters are there and their concerns real. But the concerns are unfocused (and sometimes hijacked by people concerned about Freemasons and…
How Ottawa will reveal shipbuilding winners
Credit where credit is due -- this is how government contracts should be awarded: http://bit.ly/oixiGc "The Harper government, meanwhile, won't learn the names of the winners until about 3:30 p.m.…
A hyperlink, by itself, should never be seen as "publication" of the content to which it refers
Crookes v. Newton, 2011 SCC 47 was released a few moments ago. In summary it holds that merely posting a hyperlink on a website does not amount to a publication…
Mandatory nine months for one joint
Consider this - under Bill C-10, a college student who grows a single marijuana plant in a dorm room, rolls a joint from it and shares it with a friend…
What if the police stop me while I am driving?
Driving is a privilege and not a right. As a result the police have much more authority to stop and question drivers than they do pedestrians. If the police stop…
Emperical or statistical evidence is required to advance, as an aggravating factor, that a given offense is so prevalent in the community as to be merit a sentence which may be more punitive than it might otherwise be
R. v. Julien, 2011 ONSC 5989 seems to hold that emperical or statistical evidence is required to advance, as an aggravating factor, that a given offense is so prevalent in…
L’arbre se sauve en laissant tomber ses feuilles.
Pierre Jean Jouve, (The tree saves itself by letting its leaves fall)
No bar on conditional sentence in tax evasion cases
R. v. Klundert, 2011 ONCA 646 holds a conditional sentence may be available in a tax evasion matter: First, the trial judge’s strong reliance – arguably his sol...
It’s official: Justice Andromache Karakatsanis and Justice Michael Moldaver are the government’s nominees to fill the two open spots at the country’s highest court
Prime Minister Stephen Harper named two new justices from Ontario to the Supreme Court of Canada on Monday. Justice Andromache Karakatsanis and Justice Michael Moldaver are the government's nominees to…
Unreasonable verdict
R. v. Moss, 2011 ONSC 5143 has a good summary of the law regarding when an appeal will be allowed as being “unreasonable”: When considering unreasonable verdict grounds o...
What if your lawyer’s bill is too high?
Legal fees are very expensive. As a lawyer I know that is because of significant overhead and the significant amount of time even simple matters take. That said, if you…
Justices Karakatsanis and Moldaver to Supreme Court of Canada?
Prime Minister Stephen Harper will name two judges from the Ontario Court of Appeal to Canada's highest court Monday, CTV News has learned.Sources say that after extensive consultations, Harper has…
In necessary things unity, in doubtful things liberty, in all things charity
In necesariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas - St. AugustineNot a bad slogan for a political party!
We need to built the Party for a Leader to represent as opposed to finding a Leader to build the Party
I recently spoke with a very intelligent and sophisticated man, a former Cabinet minister, who told me he voted for Tim Hudak in the last Provincial election. I said "I…