Sixty people in Ontario have been arrested on child pornography charges, including a care worker, three teenagers and several repeat offenders. Police have identified 22 victims and 8,940 IP addresses in Ontario where child pornography is suspected of being downloaded. One 16-year-old accused, a Niagara Falls resident, has been arrested for both possession and making ...
Canada’s controversial honour killing trial has ended with a conviction of murder in the first degree for Montreal’s Shafia family. Mohammad Shafia, Tooba Shafia and their son Hamed were found guilty Sunday of murdering three sisters and the father’s first wife. They were sentenced to life with no chance of parole for 25 years. A recent ...
Vancouver sex-trade workers and their lawyers brought their case to Canada’s Supreme Court on Thursday. They were there to argue the validity of a constitutional change to prostitution laws. Outside the court, other sex-workers and their supporters rallied for the cause. The fight to decriminalize prostitution has been a struggle, but the idea is spreading. ...
A man who went through several drive-thrus naked has lost his challenge to Canada’s public nudity laws. Brian Coldin owns a naturalist resort nearby to where the incidents took place and obviously didn’t bother to dress before going out. He sees being naked in public as a form of protest, such as the Naked Bike ...
Thousands of same-sex couples who married in Canada are in doubt over the legality of their marriage, after an abrupt announcement by the Harper Government. A Department of Justice lawyer said that an Anglo-American lesbian couple who married in Canada in 2005, now seeking divorce, were not legally married because same-sex marriage is not legal ...
Should polygamy be banned in Canada? It’s still a valid question, but do former special prosecutor Richard Peck a favour and leave him out of it. The Vancouver lawyer was appointed to the polygamy investigation in 2007, where he recommended not pressing misconduct charges against Bountiful, B.C. individuals, but now makes it clear he wants no role ...
A Conservative MP backed by the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada would like to take a closer look at the contents of your womb. Not to be outdone by the increasingly surreal abortion debate imposed on our neighbours to the south, Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth is having a good think about tabling a private member’s bill ...
A mobile sexual health service for immigrant women in Toronto is at risk with upcoming budget cuts. In addition to healthcare the operation also offers translators in nine different languages. This service, which seems highly secretive and backstreet to me, has been in operation for 20 years. I find it unbelievable that it is only after suggested budget cuts ...
There is strength in numbers for the female Mounties who have reported shocking abuse whilst working in the force. Their lawyers are due to submit a class-action lawsuit in the next few days, which would bring all the cases together and mean they will be heard together by the same judge in one set of ...
Mordecai Richler has a talent for shovelling trouble. His 1973 collection of essays of the same name contains a heavy shovel full of the author’s renowned criticism of his own country and close-to-the-bone commentary on the Jewish-Canadian experience, along with commentary on culture and the life of a writer. The style is less academic and ...
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