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Current Affairs 2008 - Legal (184 items)
| Mar 20, 2008 | Controversial Law Used To Seize Property The legislation allows the province to confiscate property used in crime or obtained from the proceeds of crime without any criminal charges or convictions.
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| Mar 20, 2008 | Bill C-26 - Conservative Assault On The Our federal Conservative government has a disturbing tendency to circumvent judicial deliberation by imposing upon courts their own authoritarian sense of justice.
Whenever 'public' fears of rampant crime within the country must be quelled, Prime Minister Harper and his minions consider the most effective political maneuver to be the cobbling together of bills which aim to impose mandatory minimum prison sentences for myriad offences.
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| Mar 18, 2008 | NS: Simpson's Sentenced To Time Deemed Served AMHERST - Rickey Logan Simpson has twice been convicted of drug charges and has twice been a free man the same day as his sentencing.
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| Mar 17, 2008 | AB: Alderman Wants To Ganja Up On Head Shops But Owners Doobieous That aldermen would consider prohibiting paraphernalia has Calgary bong and pipe purveyors uptight -- they say politicians are meddling in a perfectly legal business.
And they're right, technically.
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| Mar 15, 2008 | Marijuana Smuggling On Rise n 2007, the RCMP allowed armed U.S. Coast Guard officials to be stationed on boats patrolling the St. Lawrence River. Dubbed Project Shiprider, the summer-long operation resulted in the seizure of about 100 kg of marijuana.
"We feel that it's the right direction to go, and there should be more international operations like that," says Harvey.
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| Mar 12, 2008 | Pot Seed Sales Do Not Warrant Export Finally, a court ruling that puts in perspective the five to 10 years' imprisonment that B.C. cannabis crusader Marc Emery faces in U.S. prison for selling pot seeds.
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| Mar 7, 2008 | Top Court Asked To Settle Worker Drug-Testing Battle A clear national standard for worker drug and alcohol testing will emerge from a battle over oilsands employment, if a new legal move by the Alberta Human Rights Commission succeeds.
The agency has appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada to settle conflict between Alberta doctrine supporting dismissals of substance users for safety's sake and Ontario rules against such firings as discrimination.
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| Mar 6, 2008 | Prince Of Pot Still In Limbo The fate of Vancouver's Prince of Pot is still uncertain after his extradition hearing yesterday was again postponed while Canadian and American prosecutors negotiate how to legally sentence him in both countries.
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| Mar 5, 2008 | Grow Op Program A Success A city program shut down more than 80 suspected Coquitlam marijuana grow ops in the first seven months it was in operation.
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| Feb 29, 2008 | NS: Marijuana Guilty Plea Delayed By Lawyer's Schedule AMHERST - Ricky Logan Simpson, the Maccan-area man who says he has found the cure for cancer in a marijuana oil he produces, is expected to plead guilty to his latest drug-trafficking charge - but not for another couple of weeks.
Mr. Simpson, 58, was expected to enter a plea to the charge in provincial court Thursday, but he appeared without his lawyer, Duncan Beveridge, who couldn't make the trip to Amherst because he was preparing for a Supreme Court jury trial in Halifax.
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| Feb 27, 2008 | ON: Government Seizes Pot Grower's Home A Malton man has pleaded guilty to operating a marijuana lab out of a home he owns in Georgetown....After Ngo's guilty plea, the Federal Court ordered forfeiture of his house to the Receiver General of Canada.
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| Feb 25, 2008 | Constitutional Challenge Launched Over Search Warrant Windsor defence lawyer Frank Miller has brought a constitutional challenge over the way Windsor police put together search warrants in drug cases, citing s. 8 of the Charter, which protects against unreasonable search or seizure.
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| Feb 22, 2008 | War On Drugs Is Blowing Up In Our Faces, Expert Warns Oscapella is absolutely convinced that the prohibition of drugs is "the most significant failing of the criminal justice system of the 20th, and now, 21st centuries." ...
On this 100th anniversary of prohibition, maybe we have to ask ourselves, are we addicted to prohibition?
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| Feb 21, 2008 | RCMP Announces Arrival To Pot Growers With Siren Surrey RCMP not only knocked and announced their arrival at a million-dollar home of suspected pot growers Tuesday, they blasted a police siren as well.
The innovative approach to executing a search warrant was in response to a B.C. Supreme Court ruling two weeks ago in which police were criticized for not giving enough warning to a pot grower before breaking down his door.
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| Feb 21, 2008 | Charges Dropped In Pot Bust BC Conservative Leader, Wilf Hanni, expressed dismay over the ruling by B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Bruce yesterday that marijuana seized in a recent police raid could not be used as evidence in the case against the defendant...
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| Feb 20, 2008 | Vancouver Police Raid The Herb School and Arrest Activist David Malmo-Levine The Vancouver Police raided the Vancouver Herb School, arresting David Malmo-Levine and others. Malmo-Levine was taken into custody at 12:30pm Pacific time, and charges are pending for Trafficking, Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking, and (possibly) Possession of Paraphernalia. He will be kept in custody overnight. Lawyer Kirk Tousaw has been secured to represent Malmo-Levine tomorrow morning.
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| Feb 20, 2008 | BC Marijuana Smoker Wins Human-rights Ruling The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that a window contractor discriminated against an employee because his physical disability allowed him to smoke medical marijuana.
The company has been told to pay $500 for injury to the man's dignity, feelings and self-respect.
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| Feb 18, 2008 | More Illegal Search Evidence Allowed A Canadian phenomenon in the criminal justice system was highlighted again by two recent rulings by provincial courts of appeal. Evidence obtained by police after a breach of an individual's constitutional rights may still be used in court in Canada, unlike the United States where it would automatically be excluded.
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| Feb 14, 2008 | Burn Victim Acquitted Of Drug Allegations "Clearly a serious fire took place in that residence as evidenced by the photographs entered into evidence," said the judge. "However, at the end of the day, I cannot conclude to possession of drugs, nor can I conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that the only explanation to explain the burns of Peterson is that he was the one who was directly involved in the production of cannabis resin and that there was no other rational explanation for those burns.
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| Feb 14, 2008 | SN: Jury Returns Verdict In Massive Grow-Op Case Drawing comparisons to Christ, the self-described head chief of Turtle Island says he's being persecuted for making "medicine" at the request of the Creator after a jury convicted him and two disciples of growing marijuana.
"I'm a messenger. That's all. If they want to kill the messenger, they can go right ahead. They did it before with Jesus," an unrepentant Lawrence Hubert Agecoutay, who turned 52 on Christmas, said after the jury returned its verdict late Wednesday afternoon.
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