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Current Affairs 2007 - Legal (153 items)
| Jun 28, 2007 | Punting Pot Inmates Use Footballs And Baseballs To Smuggle In Drugs
Guards at the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre foiled a bizarre attempt to smuggle drugs in a football.
On Saturday night, a prisoner doing cleanup duty triggered an alarm when he got too close to a fence line at the jail, sending guards scurrying to the scene, where they grabbed the inmate and discovered a football filled with tobacco, said Solicitor General spokesman Christine Skjerven.
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| Jun 28, 2007 | Judge Orders Pot Crusader Krieger To Be Released On Bail Medicinal marijuana crusader Grant Krieger was expected to be released from jail Wednesday night, after his lawyer succeeded in getting him bail until an appeal of his most recent conviction is heard.
Justice Peter Martin ordered the controversial Krieger to be released on bail after a hearing at the Alberta Court of Appeal on Wednesday, pending his appeal.
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| Jun 27, 2007 | Marijuana Grower Deported Authorities have deported a man convicted for his role in a network of more than a dozen Calgary-area marijuana grow ops.
Canada Border Services Agency officers handed over Lai Guan Tan, 34, to foreign officials last week.
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| Jun 22, 2007 | AB: Reefer Madness Comes Full Circle Last Monday, Calgary Provincial Court Judge William Pepler ordered Grant Krieger incarcerated immediately, with no access to the pot the MS sufferer says has made his life liveable.
Reefer madness has come full circle.
Free Grant Krieger protest
Saturday June 23 / 2007 12:00 Noon
Calgary Remand Centre
12200 85 Street NW
Calgary, Alberta
Our current daily protests at the Calgary Remand Centre will be moved in front of the Alberta Provincial Court House 323-6 Ave., S.E. starting on Monday June 25 / 07. 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM daily until Grant is released!
We are expecting a large number of people on June 23 / 07 Saturday 12:00 Noon Free Grant Krieger Protest in front of the Calgary Remand Centre 122 Ave and 85th Street NW.
See you all on Saturday!
See http://Calgary420.ca/rallies/ for updates! |
| Jun 21, 2007 | SN: SN: Legal Action Considered Against Suspension A video recording of a free-speech protest at a Saskatchewan high school shows a school superintendent saying publicly that 15-year-old Kieran King had been accused of selling drugs at his school, even though his mother says he had never been investigated or charged, or even spoken to by the school principal.
Kieran's mother, Jo Anne Euler, says the drug-selling accusation is false, but hasn't yet decided whether to pursue legal action.
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| Jun 21, 2007 | AB: AB: Pot Advocate Sick In Jail - Family The condition of notorious medicinal marijuana crusader Grant Krieger - -- incarcerated at the Calgary Remand Centre since Monday -- is "rapidly deteriorating," according to his friends and family.
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| Jun 19, 2007 | Pot Used To 'Control' Girl's Hyperactivity Judge Calls It 'Extreme' Abuse, Sentences Mother To Nine Months Of House Arrest
A Sarnia woman who used marijuana to control her eight-year-old daughter's hyperactivity was placed under house arrest for nine months Monday.
The 34-year-old mother pleaded guilty in Sarnia court to marijuana trafficking because she gave the marijuana to her child.
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| Jun 19, 2007 | AB: Pot Crusader Jailed, Refused Marijuana Longtime pot crusader Grant Krieger was jailed Monday for four months on a drug trafficking charge, and he wasn't allowed to take his medicinal marijuana behind bars.
Despite a constitutional exemption that allows Krieger to use cannabis to alleviate his multiple sclerosis pain, the judge ruled against the legal right applying in jail, said his lawyer, John Hooker.
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| Jun 13, 2007 | Put the Gangs Out of Business: Legalize D Childhood and adolescence should rightfully be a time of love, learning and life. But for thousands of young Canadians, their journey to adulthood is marred forever by street-gang involvement, which almost always means an active role in the massive business of illicit street drugs, too. ...Many allocate blame to street gangsters for this sorry state of affairs -- the idea being that if it weren't for these aggressive and money-hungry "pushers," we wouldn't have such a problem. However, this reasoning is incomplete: It fails to consider the demand generated by millions of Canadians of all ages who, at least once this year, will act on their desire and make a back-alley purchase of an illicit drug...Finally, we need to embark upon drug legalization, which will starve gangs of their principal oxygen supply and serve to upset the attractive risk-reward proposition that every new gangster now faces.
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| Jun 9, 2007 | ON: Students Face Drug Charges Nine teenagers are facing drug-related charges after a newly formed police team swooped in on a Guelph high school yesterday morning.
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| Jun 8, 2007 | BC: Judge Nixes Cops For Hydro Inspections "We only use police for safety issues," she said. "If they don't like the fact that it's the police that are working with our firefighters, then that's fine; we'll have somebody else.
"But at the end of the day we want to make sure our firefighters are protected and are safe and that whole team of B.C. Hydro personnel as well, their safety is first and foremost. That's the reason why we had the police there, and the only reason. The police aren't there to lay charges; the police aren't there to execute warrants. We're there because it's a fire safety issue."
[Talk about mixed messages..it is a legal issue when the police alone shut down cannabis cultivation, but it is a fire safety issue when other civil servants are enforcing prohibition] |
| Jun 7, 2007 | AB: Smith Family Endures Orwellian-Style Invasions George and Helen Kupilik have lived just outside of Smith for 35 years. They came from the Calgary area to enjoy the freedom and tranquility of country living to raise a family.
George's children are now grown and he and Helen enjoy quiet retirement. Quiet except for the nights when unidentified men come into their home. They didn't speak or say what they wanted but twice they have searched George's home.
George himself likens it to something out of a George Orwell novel.
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| Jun 7, 2007 | Wanted: Tokers In Suits Time For Greying Potheads To Come Out Of The Closet And Back Anti-Prohibition Battle In 1977, only 18 per cent of cannabis smokers were over the age of 30, but in 2001 the percentage shot up to 49....
Considering this changing demographic, it's surprising that our drug laws haven't been reformed and liberalized. Most people blame the looming presence of the U.S. "war on drugs," but I think we've failed on the road to rational drug law reform because aging drug users rarely come out of their smoky closets to enter the political debate.
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| Jun 7, 2007 | ON: Man Pleads Guilty to Pot-By-Post Plan A medical marijuana crusader accused of mailing pot to fellow users in the United States and Britain pleaded guilty yesterday to committing mischief by using Canada Post services "without proper authority."
Following Marco Renda's plea, federal prosecutor David Doney asked the court to withdraw three counts each of trafficking and exporting a controlled substance and a single count of possession of a controlled substance.
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| Jun 1, 2007 | YK: Crown To Appeal Grow-Op Judgment Crown lawyers will appeal a territorial court judgment that prevented some evidence collected on nine men allegedly involved in marijuana grow operations from being heard at trial.
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| May 30, 2007 | ON: Proceeds Of Crime Law Upheld Ontario defence lawyers and a Thornhill man suspected of running a marijuana grow operation have lost their battle to strike down a law that gives the province power to seize property obtained through crime.
Robin Chatterjee and the Criminal Lawyers' Association argued that the Civil Remedies Act, which took effect in 2002, is really an attempt to punish offenders, not compensate crime victims.
[The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld a law allowing the province to seize alleged proceeds of crime from people who have never been convicted or even charged with an offence. ] |
| May 30, 2007 | ON: Officer Defends Himself An Ontario Provincial Police constable named in a million-dollar lawsuit believes he used a reasonable amount of force when arresting Rick Reimer March 27, 2002.
Constable Tim Broder, a member of the Killaloe OPP detachment, testified in his own defence Tuesday during the second day of the civil trial at Pembroke's Superior Court.
Mr. Reimer is suing Const. Broder, Killaloe OPP Sgt. Dwayne Sears and the province's Crown, claiming wrongful arrest and the use of excessive force in two arrests March 27, 2002 in the parking lot of the Killaloe court.
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| May 28, 2007 | BC: Marc Emery Gets Some Breathing Room B.C. Marijuana Party president Marc Emery was to appear in court today for his extradition hearing to the United States. Instead, he will be at a rescheduling hearing on Wednesday, he said. The actual extradition hearing will be at the end of the year and he's glad for the extra time.
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| May 26, 2007 | AB: Industry Wins Court Standing In Jobsite Drug Testing EDMONTON ( CP )- More industry heavyweights will be heard in the challenge of a court ruling on pre-employment drug testing involving Alberta's human rights commission and a large American construction firm.
An Alberta justice ruled last June that Kellogg Brown & Root Company discriminated against a man when it fired him from an oilsands project near Fort McMurray after his drug test was positive for marijuana.
KBR's appeal of that ruling is to be heard Oct. 11. The Alberta Court of Appeal has granted intervener status in the case to Syncrude Canada Ltd., the Mining Association of British Columbia and the Coal Association of Canada.
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| May 24, 2007 | Pot Challenge Gets High-Profile Help Philippe Lucas, founder of the Vancouver Island Compassion Society, is flying high.
As a supplier of medical marijuana and political activist bent on reforming Canada's pot laws, Lucas has a supportive MP in Vancouver East New Democrat Libby Davies.
He has what he called "an interested and engaged judge" in Justice Robert Edwards, now hearing the society's Charter of Rights challenge arising from a raid on the compassion society's grow-operation near Sooke. And he has a Tory Senator, Pierre Claude Nolin, to testify for the society when the trial resumes on June 11.
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