by XPolice | Apr 20, 2017 | National, News
Civil rights groups are worried that parts of the Liberal government’s recent recreational marijuana bill will give police sweeping new powers to combat impaired driving that will violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ protections against unreasonable...
by XPolice | Mar 6, 2017 | News, Toronto & Area
Police officers are on notice to hustle with their breathalyzers, now that an Ontario judge has acquitted an accused drunk driver because of “a constitutionally inexcusable delay of approximately 10 minutes.” At issue is the meaning of the word “forthwith,” an archaic...
by XPolice | Oct 24, 2016 | Driving Concerns, News
By Peter McKnight, special to The Globe and Mail If news headlines are to be believed, no one in Canada has ever driven a car after smoking marijuana: “Legalized marijuana has provinces worried about drug-impaired driving” “The new impaired driving: legal marijuana”...
by XPolice | Oct 20, 2016 | News, Toronto & Area
Tanvir Islam, 34, has been fighting a stop-sign infraction that he says didn’t happen. And he’s in no mind to pay the fee It’s the $85 question that has trundled into provincial court and transfixed the passions of a Toronto law student for almost two...
by XPolice | Aug 4, 2016 | Durham Region, News
Drug charges dismissed against young white female driver and her black boyfriend, but woman calls experience depressing and says her boyfriend’s basketball career is ruined. Pulled over by a Durham Regional Police officer on a September afternoon, her nearly...