| Apr 20, 2005 | Police Beating 'Shamed' Officer After being yelled at by Const. Raymond Gardner, who told Desjardins the police weren't about to lose control of Granville Street to drug dealers and that the people there were tired of their activities and the area being unsafe, Peters said Desjardins received "a flurry" of short, punches from the five officers.
He fell to the ground and "turtled up" in an effort to protect himself with his arms covering his head, and knees drawn up to his chest.
The officers then began to deliver short kicks to his body, with Kojima moving his head from side to side with the inside of his boot much like a "small child trying to control a soccer ball."
[To serve and protect. eh?] |
| Apr 16, 2005 | Up In Smoke A Sick Guelph Man Fears The Future After Police Confiscate His Crop Of What He Argues Is Legal Marijuana, Prescribed To Ease His Many Ailments.
|
| Apr 15, 2005 | Charges Withdrawn In $1 Million Marijuana Case Search Likely Wouldn't Stand Up to Charter Of Rights And Freedoms hallenge, Crown Says
Charges against four men accused of growing more than $1 million worth of marijuana northwest of Kemble last fall were withdrawn Thursday.
|
| Apr 12, 2005 | CN BC: Pot Search Ruled Illegal At issue was the information used by police to get a search warrant for the premises in late November, 2003.
According to Romilly's decision, the police received the information from a confidential source that there were 300 to 400 marijuana plants inside the residence in question, including the upstairs and the basement. The house is actually a small, one-storey bungalow with no basement.
|
| Apr 7, 2005 | And Marijuana For All By Alan Young. I am becoming embarrassed by the endless pot debate in Canada. Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan recently stated that marijuana smokers are stupid ( Was this her way of saying she smokes the herb? ), but the true imbecility lies in the irresolute and confused response of our governemt to a no-brainer issue of public policy.
|
| Apr 5, 2005 | CN ON: Judge Throws Out $500,000 Grow-Op Case WHITBY, ONT. - A judge has thrown out all charges in a $500,000 marijuana grow-op seizure because of serious charter violations by police who killed two dogs at a home in Pickering, Ont.
[Every once in awhile, justice previals just enough to give us some hope] |
| Apr 1, 2005 | CN NS: Man Wants Company To Help Him Pay For Pot So as part of his claim for special damages, Mr. Patriquen wants the defendants to pay for the costs of growing his own marijuana for medical use, as authorized under a Health Canada permit.
|
| Mar 30, 2005 | The Heat Is On And while police still build their cases the old-fashioned way, they also rely on a little help from technology. It sounds a little sci-fi and comes with its own controversy, but the Saanich police department's thermal imager helps turn hunches into search warrants.
[More rights gone to make tracking victimless "crime" easier.... a theme that we see repeating over and over ] |
| Mar 22, 2005 | CN ON: Grow-op Posse Alarms Police Politicians Hunt Drug Door To Door - Almost Vigilantism,' Officers Contend
Two Scarborough politicians are going door to door in their neighbourhood looking for marijuana grow houses to report to police.
[Can you imagine if politicians put this much time and energy into ending poverty. What a wonderful world it would be.] |
| Mar 21, 2005 | American Woman Awaits Extradition Decision Nightmares about abuse in prison and separation from her son have plagued Renee Boje for more than four years as she awaits a decision on her extradition to the United States.
|
| Mar 21, 2005 | CN BC: BC Hydro Could Help Bust Grow-ops Last week, Solicitor General Rich Coleman urged BC Hydro to help police in their battle against drugs. He asked the Crown corporation to turn information over to the authorities when customers have unusually high power bills, which may indicate a possible grow operation in the residence.
[The next generation will have no clue what privacy is or means] |
| Mar 21, 2005 | CN ON: 'Dirty Money' Act Challenged In Class Action Two Ontario men have launched a $100-million class action against the provincial government, demanding that a controversial anti-crime law be struck down because it violates the Charter. ...the legislation that gives the province the power to confiscate suspected dirty money from people who have not been convicted of any crime.
|
| Mar 18, 2005 | CN BC: Prove it or lose it Civil forfeiture enacted by fall Legislation introduced in Victoria last week will eventually allow government to seize goods believed to have been bought with ill-gotten profit.
[seize goods believed to have been bought - the keyword being "believed" instead of "proved". It only opens the door to more corruption,which fuels ambitious lawmakers and keeps them coming back for more] |
| Mar 12, 2005 | Marijuana Producer Avoids Jail
The first Calgary-area marijuana grower sentenced since the Mayerthorpe massacre was spared a prison term yesterday. But defence lawyer Elliot Baker defended Judge Terry Semenuk's ruling, noting the judge addressed concerns earlier in the week about comparisons to last week's Mountie killings in which four officers were gunned down while investigating a marijuana grow operation.
|
| Mar 12, 2005 | CN BC: Cookie Lady Charges Dropped VANCOUVER-- All charges have been dropped against the naked cookie lady whose cannabis loaded gingersnaps became a cause celebre at Wreck Beach.
On Thursday the Crown informed Mary Jean Dunsdon's lawyer, John Conroy, that all remaining charges against her were being stayed.
Cookies - a danger to society? This was worthy of even bringing into a court of law? |
| Mar 12, 2005 | Pot Patch Violence A Myth Justice Minister Wrong, Lawyers Say. Ontario Police Met With Violence In Only 2 Of 800 Raids In 4 Years, Cop Testifies ...many in the legal community say the claim by politicians and police that grow-ops are violent vehicles for sophisticated, organized crime groups is a "cheap shot" that does not stand up to "10 minutes of fact checking." Numerous lawyers who defend these cases in court suggested Public Security Minister Anne McLellan is misleading the public about the dangers of grow-ops with her recent comments in the wake of the Alberta murders.
[There is a lot of political maneuvering going on right now... a minority government that everyone assumed would align with the left on the cannabis Bill to keep voters happy...instead could be aligning with the right to keep the US happy. As trading partners/neighbours, we have been upsetting each other for whatever reasons, so the legalization card could be easily played instead, and get the grow op violence out of the equation. If Canadians do not speak out loud and clear with thier votes and voices, then be prepared for the prison-industrial complex in a neighbourhood near you] |
| Mar 3, 2005 | BC Supreme Court Wants More Proof Before Ruling on Validity of Pot Laws VANCOUVER -- Have the laws against marijuana fallen? That was the
question before the BC Supreme Court today... the judge declined to give a Constitutional exemption from
Canada’s unworkable medical cannabis access system without more proof
that her rights had been violated.
[ A very significant case winding it's way to the Supreme Court] |
| Feb 25, 2005 | CN AB: Cops On Hook For Injuries During Raid Cops who cracked the ribs of a city man when they wrongly raided his home must pay him $20,000, Alberta's top court ruled yesterday.
[What happened to the cop? He got a promotion...] |
| Feb 25, 2005 | It's Time for Canada to Legalize Cannabis Most arguments against cannabis legalization are moralistic, whereas the arguments in favour are pragmatic and would help to protect minors, users, and society.
The time has come to legalize cannabis.
[Straightforward and to the point. Hooray!] |
| Feb 23, 2005 | Police Too Quick To Bust Down Door A husband and wife have been acquitted of growing marijuana after an RCMP officer failed to give them enough time to answer their door before he smashed it down with a battering ram.
|
