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Las Vegas Public Defender Retreat: Interview With Dave Rendahl
May 9th, 2012

For the past four years I have been privileged to attend the annual Public Defender Retreat in Las Vegas. This year the conference was attended by over 20 of my colleagues from Toronto as well as lawyers from across Ontario (my first year there were only two of us). The conference includes some grea... Read more »

Being Masked During an Unlawful Assembly or Riot
May 8th, 2012

Yesterday I was interviewed for a Global National story about Conservative MP Blake Richards’ private member’s bill seeking to make it a criminal offence to be masked while participating in a riot or unlawful assembly and includes some harsh penalties (up to five years in prison, three y... Read more »

A Very Special Birthday
April 18th, 2012

Thirty years ago today Canadians received a gift.  Since then the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has become the envy of the world.  Thanks to the hard work of Pierre Trudeau, Jean Chretien, and their team, the Charter sets out, in very clear language, the rights and freedoms of Canadians... Read more »

Remedies for an Improper Arrest
March 1st, 2012

In my last blog I spoke about the arrest, search, and susbsequent release of Jessie Sansone, without search, as a result of his four year-old daughter drawing a picture of him with a gun.  No doubt this was a harrowing ordeal for Sansone.  There has since been much criticism levied towards the Wat... Read more »

Too Much Police Power: Unreasonable Search & Arrest of Kitchener Man
February 25th, 2012

As reported in both the Toronto Star and the Waterloo Record, a Kitchener man was detained and searched as a result of a picture his daughter drew.  Jessie Sansone’s daughter drew a picture of a man holding a gun.  When questioned about it Sansone’s daughter said the gun was her daddy&... Read more »

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