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The police showed up around midnight with a warrant to search a residential property in Oshawa, Ontario. Roydel Ramsay-Morris was arrested in the backyard and detained for two hours before he was given the right to call a lawyer. A ruling from the Ontario Court of Justice excluding a loaded firearm … Read more »

The police in Thunder Bay, Ontario, had grounds to obtain a search warrant for Rashawn Samuels’ apartment the day before he was arrested. But they chose to wait until after the arrest to apply for the warrant and denied his right to call a lawyer for nine hours while the warrant was executed. The de … Read more »

The alleged sale of two grams of cocaine to an undercover police officer prompted the police to initiate a motor vehicle stop for tinted windows contrary to Alberta’s traffic safety statute. But the officer who stopped the vehicle testified on an evidence exclusion motion that his real purpose was t … Read more »

TD Bank has agreed to pay US$3 billion in fines and penalties for failing to maintain an anti-money laundering program and became the first bank in U.S. history to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering. The bank’s failure to maintain its anti-money laundering program allowed corrupt … Read more »

Social Media and Video Streaming Services have become a ubiquitous part of life and culture in the digital age. But these services do more than let their users connect with the world from the palm of their hands. A new report by the United States Federal Trade Commission has found that these compani … Read more »