This IS Canada...

...and the left will find the "middle" ground!

How Do You Mete Out More Than The Maximum?

Norway will have to suffer their outrage verbally because it is obvious that in this social paradise you pay for your sins by giving the offender a pat on the head.

Norway suspect could get more than max sentence: prosecutor


However, keeping Anders Behring Breivik in jail for the rest of his life, in the country’s famously comfortable prison system, would be unheard of in the peaceful, egalitarian (: a belief in human equality especially with respect to social, political, and economic affairs, 2: a social philosophy advocating the removal of inequalities among people) ecountry, the Norwegian lawyer said

Jonathan Kay: How Breivik's 2011 crime was plucked from a 1978 novel

Suspect posted manifesto before mass killings in Norway

Jonathan Kay: Already, the Norway conspiracy theories have begun

Find, Arrest And Sentence The Vandals To...

...having to ride a 10 km circlular track, possibly at the CNE, without stopping and doing so on a bike that has no seat the the wheels are slightly out of alignment.

Art installation bike bullied by vandals

The abandoned bicycle that launched the Good Bike project — a plan to install 60 painted bikes around the city — is under attack again.

Toronto Has A Ban On Guns...

George Jonas: Armed citizens should look to their own security

KAREN BLEIER / AFP / Getty Images

Did Canada’s firearm-phobic urban elites score an own goal? Did they open up a political opportunity for Stephen Harper? Many commentators seem to think so.

I’m not as sanguine as some, but if, by their narrow rescue of the registry, Ottawa’s gunless wonders did elevate a wasteful program of loony liberalism into an election issue, it may open up an opportunity to re-examine the debate about gun control.

The police carry guns for a reason: They’re great tools for law enforcement. Letting firearms become the monopoly of lawbreakers, far from enhancing public safety, is detrimental to it. Canada has gone out of its way to make criminals as invincible, and victims as vulnerable, as possible. This wasn’t the aim of gun control, of course, only the result.

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U Does The Crime U Does The Time...

...and the next step is to make going to prison a hardship. Gulag type prisons with few privileges might reduce recidivism, would allow us to build our case for sovereignty in the Arctic, etc. 

Nixing the 2-for-1 pre-trial scam

The whimpering continues among the hug-a-thug crowd that the federal government's nixing of two-for-one sentencing credits for pre-trial custody will result in a penitentiary boom.

Dispensing Justice...

SIU Probes Fatal Shooting

 

Mon, 2010-04-19 05:39.

Cheryl Camack

 

The province's Special Investigations Unit has been called in to probe what led to the shooting death of a man following an early morning chase on the waterfront.

The incident started when police began following a car in the area of Leslie and Commissioners Streets at approximately 1 a.m., Monday. Soon after officers stopped following the vehicle.
A short time later, the car was spotted at foot of Cherry and Commissioners Streets.
Police reportedly set up a roadblock and then opened fire when the driver steered the car right at them. One officer was struck by the car and the driver fatally shot.
The officer was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with minor injuries, while the suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.
The SIU is asking anyone with information to contact them at 416-622-0748 or 1-800-787-8529.
The SIU is called in to investigate reports involving police where there has been death, serious injury or allegations of sexual assault.

(with additional files from Suzette Francis)

Would 'HER TAKE" Be Different If...

...she had been a customer in these banks?

This take on crime is irrational 

Reward offered over pistol-whipping bank robbers

...The Star continues it assault on police:

Police layoffs? Not in this town

Crime is falling, but, for a variety of reasons, no one is suggesting cuts to Toronto's 5,510-officer force, especially in an election year. (Jan. 27, 2010)

By Robyn Doolittle

Tue Feb 02 2010

 

Faced with a financial crisis, Phoenix, Arizona announced the lay off 352 uniformed police officers. On the same day,  the Toronto police board passed a bare-bones budget up 4.37 per cent from last year – even as other departments were expected to slash their budgets by 5 per cent.

 

Tougher Laws, More Prisons, Etc. Not The Answer

Until the communities in which these crimes occur step forward and help the police they will always in fear. Also we need to support the police in a more active way. Let they become crime fighters ratyher than social workers with guns. Remove the term "racial profiling" from our law books.

'Canada is nothing,' grieving dad says
By IAN ROBERTSON, SUN MEDIA

Feeling betrayed and sad after yesterday's release of two men accused of killing his son, Ahmed Abdikarim Mohammed said he will take his wife and their five children back to Africa "this week."

Full Story

Evidence 'insufficient'
By IAN ROBERTSON

Two men accused of gunning down teenager Abdikarim Ahmed Abdikarim in Lawrence Heights 11 months ago were freed yesterday after their first-degree murder charges were withdrawn.

Watch The Opposition Hold This Up In Commitee

New Tough Legislation On Gangs

Ottawa to unveil tough anti-gang legislation -- The federal government is expected to unveil new legislation Thursday that will include an automatic first-degree murder charge for any gang-related killings, CTV News has learned. [...more]

Anyone Want To Dispute TheBasic Premise

D inmates. R ruling. D asylum.

This story in the Winnipeg Free Press by Mike McIntyre shows many things that need to be looked at in how our justice system is broken. I needed to cut and paste things into the correct order...........

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Comrade Miller As Usual Fails To Face Reality

"Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game."Andy Rooney

Video: Mayor Miller on the school shooting

Mayor David Miller held a press conference in response to the shooting at a Scarborough high school.

Does This Come As A Surprise?

Not to me........

Pharmacies accused of paying kickbacks to drug addicts

ROBERT MATAS

From Tuesday's Globe and Mail

September 8, 2008 at 10:52 PM EDT

VANCOUVER — Pharmacies that offer cash incentives to drug addicts for their daily methadone prescriptions are under investigation by the B.C. College of Pharmacists and PharmaCare, the provincial government's drug-insurance plan.

“I can confirm that we have an active investigation … but I am not in a position to reveal any details,” Lori DeCou, a college spokesperson, said yesterday in an interview.

Bernadette Murphy, a spokesperson for PharmaCare, said the provincial agency was working with other authorities. “The investigation has been going on for some months,” she said.

Helen Weiss, who has been working at the Native Health Society Medical Centre for six years, said yesterday five or six pharmacies in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside have posed problems for years.

Methadone is prescribed to addicts as a substitute for heroin. To ensure that the addicts consume the drug and do not resell it on the street, the pharmacists are expected to watch the addicts as they drink the methadone.

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Enough Said!

Should Prime Minister Stephen Harper intervene and bring Omar Khadr back to Canada?
Yes		13%
No		87%
Total Votes for this Question: 4214

Criminals Are Disadvantaged Canadians - The Star

There is no question that the present prison system isn't working so let's change the system......let's quit coddling those that break the law, forget giving them the same rights that honest citizens have and let's make prisons so tough that maybe more inmates will think twice about re-offending. Let's put the emphasis back on punishment.

Getting tough on the taxpayer

LUCAS OLENIUK/TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO

Sandro Contenta,
Jim Rankin, Betsy Powell and Patty Winsa Jul. 19, 2008

Canadians firmly support federal measures that will put more offenders behind bars for longer, according to a poll conducted for the Star.

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Your Present Criminal Justice System At Work:

'Unprecedented' sexual predator paroled eight years early
National Parole Board released Joshua Innes, against the advice of his case management team, less than a year after he was sentenced to nine years in prison for his crimes.


More stupid parole board tricks
This sicko got a 9 year sentence( it was already reduced by the judge by three years because this pedophile is young) and is out in less than 1 year! Its a good example for pedophiles everywhere in Canada. The parole board will let you out. The professionals that worked with this pedophile recommended against parole. No wonder so few us trust the "justice" system.Unprecedented' sexual predator
Dr Roy's Thoughts

We Know A Ban Is Not The Answer So.......

.....maybe it is time to allow citizens to carry guns in the open so they have a fighting chance against those members of society that have no respect for the law and those dispensers of justice who have failed the people.

Attitude, Attitude......

Hell if it is okay to download music and movies without paying for them and my parents don't care so they probably won't care if I start smoking pot or sniffing coke, etc. etc.

You Gave Prisoners Rights So Why Complain

If I had any say in the sentencing in Olsen's case this would not have come up.......

Clifford Olson MySpace page prompts investigation

Olson web page shocks victims' kin, officials

My Neighborhood Doing It's Best.......

....to move up the list of most dangerous cities in Canada.

Teen girl shot in leg while riding subway in Toronto

Updated Fri. Mar. 28 2008 11:02 PM ET

The Canadian Press

TORONTO -- Toronto police say a 17-year-old girl is in hospital after she was shot in the leg while riding on the city's subway.

Sgt. Bill Richards says the shooting occurred on a northbound subway car after the girl and a male got into an argument.

The girl, who hasn't been identified, is currently being treated in hospital for wounds police say aren't life threatening.

The shooting occurred just before 9 p.m. near Spadina station, near the city's core.

Richards says police are still investigating the shooting, and that no suspects have been arrested.

Earlier news reports had said the girl was caught in the middle of a gun fight between two groups

Fifteen charged after marijuana, gun found at store

Updated Fri. Mar. 28 2008 5:09 PM ET

ctvtoronto.ca

Toronto police have charged 15 people after officers seized about $600,000 worth of marijuana from a store in the city's northwest.

Drug squad officers executed a search warrant at D.J. Record and Clothing Store, located at 2508 Eglinton Ave. W, near Keele Street, at about 6:40 p.m. Thursday.

Police said an investigation allegedly revealed marijuana was being sold at the store.

Officers found about 65 pounds of marijuana, a loaded 9-mm handgun and cash.

Fifteen suspects, aged between 20 and 59, were arrested and charged with various drug trafficking and weapons offences.

The accused were to appear at the Old City Hall courts on Friday.

Teen fighting for life after Yorkdale mall stabbing TheStar.com - GTA - Teen fighting for life after Yorkdale mall stabbing

March 29, 2008

Sarah Boesveld
Staff reporter

A teenage boy is battling for his life after a stabbing at Yorkdale mall Friday night.

The boy was taken to Sunnybrook hospital with multiple stab wounds and his injuries are considered life threatening.

Officers are on the scene investigating.

Why Have We Lost Sight Of The Simplicity Of Wrongdoing?

Ryerson's 'Facebook scandal' isn't about Facebook, it's about cheating

Posted: March 17, 2008, 12:11 PM by Marni Soupcoff

Editorial

It's about time someone made a point that has been lost in all the back-and-forth over Ryerson University's "Facebook scandal." That point is: The Facebook scandal doesn't really have anything to do with Facebook.

An engineering professor at the Toronto school gave his students a specific instruction that their take-home assignments should be done independently. One of those students, Chris Avenir, allegedly ignored the instruction, joined an existing study group devoted to the class, and invited everyone in it to "input solutions" to the assignments so they could be shared. He got caught, was given an F in the course, and is currently appealing his expulsion for academic misconduct. The fact that the study group was a Facebook group has nothing to do with the nature of the offence or the controversy over Mr. Avenir's punishment.

Gomery, Justice & Flaggman

November 27, 2007
Judicial Arrogance: Gomery Whines about Mandatory Minimums

The man who Paul Martin hand-picked to bring down his own government, Justice John Gomery, has chosen to become the voice of the Judiciary in Canada against PM Stephen Harper’s new crime bill. Retired since August, Gomery obviously feels free to speak his mind - and, in his opinion, the mind of most of Canada’s judges - regarding the increased use of mandatory minimum sentences in Conservative legislation. From Richard Foot, CanWest News Service, “Judges resent ‘implied criticism’ of minimum sentences: Gomery” :

“This legislation basically shows a mistrust of the judiciary to impose proper sentences when people come before them,” says Gomery.

Yes, sir, that would be correct. Judges have been shown time-and-time-again to go out of their way to avoid penalizing criminals - particularly the louses involved in the despicable Restorative Justice movement.

“Judges view this kind of legislation as a slap in the face.”

And a well-deserved one, at that.

Gomery, who retired from the Quebec Superior Court after wrapping up the sponsorship inquiry in 2006, says judges are unhappy about this and other legislation that suggest a failure on their part to impose proper sentences.

“Judges find that it’s an implied criticism when Parliament imposes mandatory sentences,” Gomery says. “It leaves the impression that judges aren’t using their discretion wisely or in accordance with the wishes of the legislature. And judges are resentful about that.”

How, exactly, does a man with such a weak grasp of elementary logic become a respected Judge? Sir: laws are made by the legislature. Judges must implement those laws. If judges won’t implement those laws by applying reasonable penalties, then the legislature MUST mandate specific sentences.

But wait…a speck of logic creeps in…

Gomery admits that mandatory sentences will relieve judges from what he calls the “agonizing” task of choosing an appropriate sentence.

“Most judges who sit on criminal matters would say sentencing is the hardest part of their job,” he says. “But if Parliament has said, ‘You’ve got to give this guy five years,’ then you shrug your shoulders and obey the law and sentence them, even if you feel it’s unnecessarily harsh.

Now we’ve gotten somewhere. Way to go, Gomery, you’re absolutely right! IT’S NOT FOR YOU TO DECIDE WHETHER A LEGISLATED PENALTY IS TOO HARSH! Congratulations, John. Uh oh…he concludes:

“Still, my own personal view is that it’s a mistake to take away discretion from judges,” says Gomery.

In other words: Judges know it’s wrong, but want to retain the right to override legislation at their every whim anyway.

You don't say?

So now he's the subject of a dangerous offender hearing.

That, took, let's see, one assault with a frying pan coupled with stabbing avec kitchen knives, one sexual assault coupled with attempted murder, and one aggravated assault which rendered the victim (a single mother of two) paralyzed from the neck down. Tally that all up, and now, finally, maybe, he'll actually be put away for meaningful time. But only if a judge agrees with the application (of course, don't worry, every seven years Dangerous Offenders get to argue that they should be paroled). Seeing how the judiciary has acted in the past in regards to this offender, would you be willing to bet the house on a successful DO application?


I'm actually on the side of Gomery in this argument. We don't need mandatory minimum sentences.

We simply need to relocate every halfway house in the country to inside the security gated confines of luxury housing developments and high-end apartment buildings - and let the problem of lax sentences solve itself.

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