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Beefed up DUI laws a deterrent or cash grab?
Calgary Police Chief Rick Hanson believes Alberta's new impaired driving law will give police more options when they nab an impaired driver. By the numbers 518: BC police laid 518 more Criminal Code charges in instances not involving injury or fatality
Updated: 11/25/2011 09:37A
All of StatCan's Online Data to Be Free
Kate Heartfield of the Ottawa Citizen wonders why we need a polygamy law at all, considering that there are enough other crimes documented in Bountiful for the Crown to sink its teeth into. "This is a question of criminal law, not social policy," says
Updated: 11/25/2011 09:25A
Class Act: Dan Kerila
He also volunteers for community service through the criminal justice program, including traffic control for fundraising walks, and is parliamentarian for the SkillsUSA, which develops skills and professional conduct in various trades through state and
Updated: 11/25/2011 09:21A
America's Justice System Has Failed Us All
The unfairness, hypocrisy, and barbarism of the American criminal justice system is increasingly the subject of serious comment. Newt Gingrich is enjoying his brief sojourn as the non-Romney candidate of the Republicans, until the assassination squads
Updated: 11/25/2011 09:21A
Border Guards Only Fired Three Shots Since Getting Guns
In the endless struggle to figure out why so many young people don't vote, Elections Canada commissioned a poll that found the most popular reasons for not casting ballots is – not so shockingly – being uninterested in politics and not having enough
Updated: 11/25/2011 09:03A
Disinterest, Access Behind Low Youth Voter Turnout
"On an intellectual level, polygamy amongst men and women who have reached the age of consent should be no one else's business but the participants'," says Gunter. "But all of this is theoretical," continues Gunter. "The cold, hard fact is that in the
Updated: 11/25/2011 08:40A
Reeve urges province to get tough on crime
“The judges, whether they are federally appointed or provincially appointed, can only apply the law. And I can tell you the law that's gotten more Manitobans upset over the past decade is the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Most kids, whether they are in
Updated: 11/25/2011 08:06A
Review of Australian laws on bribery of a Commonwealth and foreign public official
The Australian Attorney General's Department is looking to change some of the key points to Australia's laws on bribery of a Commonwealth and foreign public official (found in Division 141 and 70 of the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth)). removing the
Updated: 11/25/2011 07:35A
Internet Firms Row Over Criminal Website Suspensions
Worse still, law enforcement agencies appear to have been arguing to Nominet and others that they are liable under the Proceeds of Crime Act if they do not suspend sites once they are made aware that criminal acts may be taking place on domains.
Updated: 11/25/2011 07:27A
Network Rail faces legal action over deaths of teenage girls
is in the public interest, to bring criminal proceedings against Network Rail for serious breaches of health and safety law which led to the deaths of Olivia Bazlinton and Charlotte Thompson at Elsenham station footpath crossing in December 2005.
Updated: 11/25/2011 07:18A
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