Jamie Sarkonak: Supreme Court puts gangster youth before public safety - "the same day that Toronto police arrested the at-large 14-year-old alleged to have stabbed a grandmother to death as she loaded groceries into her car, the Supreme Court of Canada made it next to impossible to sentence him to a jail term longer than six years. In other words, the odds that Canadians — first and foremost, the family of 71-year-old Shahnaz Pestonji, but also everyone else who was heartbroken to learn of her violent death — will see justice done have now dropped to near zero thanks to seven justices of the top court. Those justices neutered the adult sentencing provisions under the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) in the case of R. v. I.M., which reconsidered the adult life sentence of a 17-year-old who murdered another boy of the same age in an alley in a robbery that the former hoped would boost his criminal career. The court ruled in his favour, reducing his jail sentence to the YCJA’s six-year maximum. The old way of applying adult sentences — supported by years of precedent — required that a judge be satisfied that the youth in question did not have the diminished blameworthiness that courts automatically assume youth to have. It also required that a youth sentence in the given scenario “would not be of sufficient length to hold the young person accountable for his or her offending behaviour.” The Supreme Court, interpreting the Charter to the habitual extreme, now requires that a youth’s adult-sentenceable maturity be proven by Crown prosecutors beyond a reasonable doubt. In doing so, the Crown must prove that the “developmental age” of a criminal youth “is that of an adult.” That’s the same very high degree of certainty that’s required to prove that a person committed a criminal offence — one that’s incredibly hard to meet in the fuzzy world of psychological maturity... Bravado, added the majority of the court, is helpful in getting a youth sentence: “Young persons may commit violent crimes in grim circumstances impulsively or to impress others, in ways that reflect a diminished capacity for adult‑like judgment.” Naturally, the learned judges also suggest that critical race theory be used in the maturity/blameworthiness evaluation by taking into account the “young offender’s disadvantaged background, and the connection between that background and systemic discrimination in their community.”... The court went on to add that this should be a nuanced inquiry that doesn’t involve stereotyping or racial discounts — even though that’s exactly what’s going on here. The racial dimension is most helpful to the groups who are most abundant in the youth gang population: Black youth (25 per cent of underage gangsters, according to the most recent data, found in a 2002 Public Safety report), followed by First Nations (21 per cent). Altogether, this decision is most helpful for Canada’s most brazenly dangerous, out-of-control youth: the ones who have already been inducted into gang life, whose parents are absent or even supportive of their actions, who live to glorify violence and who are unlikely to be rehabilitated. The ones who swarm, stab and shoot others in public, with no regard for human life, and the ones who brag online about killing harmless elderly ladies on the way home from the grocery store. It’s also an additional incentive for gangs to recruit minors into their ranks — something they already do to minimize legal risk, and are sure to do more now that adult sentencing has likely been relegated to history... What luck that the Supreme Court is looking out for him. The rest of Canadians, well, they better hope they never end up in the wrong parking lot at the wrong time."
But of course, 5 year olds are mature enough to decide that they are another gender, and 16 year olds should be able to vote
No time behind bars for man who stabbed Alberta sisters in his Vancouver Airbnb unit - "A man who brutally attacked two vacationing sisters from Alberta who had rented his Vancouver Airbnb won’t serve any additional time behind bars. On Thursday, Arvin Pasha was handed a 22-month conditional sentence to be served in the community, followed by three years of probation. Pasha pleaded guilty in September to assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm for the attack three years ago... In handing down the sentence, B.C. Provincial Court Judge Harbans Dhillon noted Pasha had no prior criminal record, accepted responsibility with his guilty plea, had performed well on bail and had abstained from cannabis use... Pasha’s lawyer had sought a conditional discharge, which would have left him with no criminal record should he adhere to conditions, arguing his client suffered a mental breakdown on the day of the attack brought on by heavy cannabis use and has an “unspecified psychotic disorder.” The Crown argued a discharge is contrary to the public interest, given the extreme violence of the offence, but did not seek additional jail time either, acknowledging Pasha’s mental illness left him with a “lessened moral culpability.” Dhillon agreed with the Crown. “A discharge would fail to adequately communicate to members of the public who are users of recreational psychoactive substances that there are liable to be adverse criminal justice consequences if their involuntary ingestion of excessive psychoactive substances causes or contributes to serious harm,” she said."
Beating death of Bailey McCourt a shocking indictment of catch-and-release justice : r/ilovebc - "How is it that he can utter threats, already cause bodily harm leave court and go murder the victim and the charge is not 1st degree? This is premeditated murder not that it matters but this was no chance encounter or self defence. So many failings in this highly flawed system. Perhaps half way houses etc should be put next to judges and defence attorneys homes, they would reconsider who they release into the community."
33-year-old woman intentionally set on fire on Langley street, police say - BC | Globalnews.ca : r/ilovebc - ""Anarcho-tyranny is a term that describes a social condition characterized by the combination of anarchy and tyranny, where the government is simultaneously ineffective at enforcing laws against criminal behavior and overly oppressive against law-abiding citizens.""
AGAR: What happened to Liberals getting tougher on criminals? - "For international criminals, you couldn’t pick a better place to ply your nefarious trade than Canada. When someone is charged with a crime — even the most violent ones — it is no longer a surprise to learn he has a long record of criminal convictions and was out on bail awaiting trial for a vicious crime at the time of the new one... “Medhani Yohans is a poster boy for the scourge of catch-and-release justice.” Convicted of violent crimes such as sexual assault, “Yohans has been in trouble since at least 2018. According to one news report in April of that year, Guelph Police had arrested him three times in one weekend for allegedly breaking into vehicles, trying to dine and dash and exposing himself. He’d be released on bail only to be re-arrested hours later”... A recent Liberal election policy promised they’d “toughen the Criminal Code and make bail laws stricter for violent and organized crime, home invasions, car stealings and human trafficking — including and especially for repeat offenders.”... Superior Court Justice Jennifer Woollcombe said there was “no legal basis” for a lower court judge to impose a conditional sentence on Joseph LeClaire, who had pleaded guilty to his fifth impaired driving offence. In an exchange between the lower court judge and the Crown during the sentencing hearing in March, the judge suggested a four-month conditional sentence instead of the mandatory custodial sentence. “That is not permitted by statute,” the Crown prosecutor responded. “I know, but what if I do?” the judge asked. Then she did. Woollcombe said Justice Khatira (Kathy) J. Jalali “fully appreciated what the law required her to do and deliberately refused to apply the law. I view it as an affront to the administration of justice for a judge to choose to knowingly disregard and decline to follow the law that must be applied.” Jalali is still a judge. As far back as 2011, Maclean’s magazine reported that “judges are imposing lighter sentences on violent immigrants because they are reluctant to quash their only real hope of remaining in Canada.” Immigrant Akashkumar Khant received a conditional discharge after trying to hire a 15-year-old as a prostitute . “A conviction would lead to severe collateral consequences, such as jeopardizing his immigration status, delaying his citizenship and preventing him from sponsoring his wife, which would likely result in their separation,” Justice Paul O’Marra said. Gaining citizenship is a privilege and when that privilege is abused by breaking the laws of the country before achieving citizenship, shouldn’t we see that as a chance to dodge a bullet, so to speak, by getting a bad apple out of the barrel? Can we expect this situation to improve? I am dubious. So far, this is an excellent country in which to be a criminal."
Man charged with sexual assault of 14-year-old girl arrested and released twice in weeks before alleged attack - "A Vancouver woman is telling a frightening story about a man who allegedly terrorized her at her East Vancouver home back in March. The woman also says the same man — a repeat sex offender who was on probation — should not have been walking the streets two months later when he is alleged to have sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl in a public washroom. John Frederick Field, 62, was taken into custody by Vancouver police at the woman's East First Avenue home on March 26 and released within 24 hours. On May 28, Field was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting the 14-year-old as part of what the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) described as a "crime spree" that took place in the Oakridge neighbourhood."
Left wingers often blame the provincial government in Ontario, even though bail and sentencing are federal issues. Maybe the cope will be, as with healthcare, that the BC NDP is conservative
Caribbean bistro weighs leaving ‘war zone’ in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside - BC - "After 15 years of navigating what he describes as a “war zone” of illegal activity outside his doors, the owner of a popular Caribbean restaurant has almost given up on trying to run a legitimate business in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Running the gauntlet outside his restaurant to grab supplies from his commissary kitchen at the corner of Carrall and Hastings streets is an almost daily battle for Cullin David, who said he genuinely fears for his safety and that of his customers, staff, and business partners... The co-owner and chef at Calabash Bistro said he’s tired of dodging drug use, dealing, street disorder and violence on a block with one of the worst crime rates in the city. “Killings, stabbings, knife fights. My business partners having to do their best to try and save a gentleman’s life that they witnessed being stabbed in the chest,” said David. “The amount of violence and just horrible things that we’ve witnessed is a lot for anyone just trying to run a restaurant.” When David opened Calabash Bistro in 2010, he knew he was on ground zero in the troubled neighbourhood, but said he was enticed by municipal and provincial promises of investment and improvement in the area, including greenways and tourist routes. “Those early days, we had a lot of optimism,” David recalled... But he said the neighbourhood never improved. “It’s kind of just steadily gotten worse and worse,” David said. Calabash was one of the first restaurants to launch a composting program, but David said its bin was taken away due to all the needles being thrown into it. More and more nearby businesses have shuttered, he said, and more and more human excrement is appearing on the sidewalk. While he’s grateful there has been some recent movement on crime and crime prevention with the VPD’s Task Force Barrage targeting organized criminals and violent offenders since Feb. 13, David says Carrall Street near Hastings continues to deteriorate. “The risk to myself, my partner, and our employees has increased significantly, especially at night,” said David, who noted his staff were involved in a very close call this past weekend... When drug dealers on the block spotted police on patrol nearby, David said they attempted to stash “something” inside Calabash’s commissary. When his cooks stopped them and told them they needed to leave, David said the dealers became aggressive and began fighting his staff. Calabash’s co-owner, Yonathan Hernandez, arrived, said David, and managed to corral the cooks in the commissary while he was left to face approximately 10 hostile individuals alone on the street. Yelling, pushing, and shoving ensued, according to David, and Hernandez saw one dealer place his hand on a gun in his waistband before another dealer from the “day shift” saw what was happening and stepped in to defuse the situation... As a society, he said, we’ve all allowed the chaos outside his doors to thrive. “The business of poverty is big,” David told Global News. “There (are) a lot of people that make money from what’s going on down here.” David said he would like to see a government approach that brings positive change for people struggling with mental illness and addictions... While David said the people outside his business are allowed to smoke drugs, drink alcohol, and listen to loud music at all hours, Calabash is fighting to survive... the province started enforcing the rules to ensure DJs and dancing stop at midnight. “We were kind of shocked to have inspectors come in and say, ‘Well, nope, you can’t do this and you can’t do that and if we have to come back, you’re going to be fined upwards of seven grand’”... David and his partners recently took out a $15,000 loan and applied for a dual food and liquor primary licence, which would allow the restaurant to operate as a bar or nightclub, provided they have different hours of liquor-only service. But there’s no guarantee Calabash will be approved. “$15,000 later, not only are we faced with the prospect of being denied the licence, we probably won’t have any customers willing to walk through a war zone just to visit us,” said David. “We’re damned if we do, were damned if we don’t.”"
Anarcho-tyranny means rules and laws are only for law abiding citizens to follow, and criminals can do whatever they want
B.C. man acquitted of sexual assault after blaming 'automatism' on magic mushrooms - "On a Friday night in March 2019, Leon-Jamal Daniel Barrett concluded that humanity was corrupt and his only means to save it was by having "sexual congress" with a woman chosen by God. The fact Barrett took magic mushrooms in the hours before coming to this realization would later prove pivotal to his being found not guilty for what happened next. "He waited at his house for this woman to come," wrote Surrey provincial court judge Timothy Hinkson. "When she did not, he left his home, believing that if he walked anywhere, God would eventually bring them together."... Hinkson acquitted Barrett of sexual assault, breaking and entering, and wilfully obstructing a police officer after he argued the magic mushrooms put him in a state of automatism that rendered him not criminally liable for his actions... Although the incident happened in 2019, Barrett's trial was put on hold while the Supreme Court of Canada considered another case in which a naked Calgary man beat a university professor with a broom handle after consuming magic mushrooms and copious amounts of alcohol. In 2022, the nation's top court struck down a section of the Criminal Code meant to prevent people from arguing extreme intoxication as a defence for offences such as sexual assault, assault, and breaking and entering... Public outrage over the defence of extreme intoxication erupted in 1994 when the Supreme Court of Canada overturned the conviction of a Quebec man who sexually assaulted a partially paralyzed friend of his wife after consuming a one-litre bottle of brandy and several bottles of beer. In response, Parliament introduced Section 33.1 of the Criminal Code which effectively prevented anyone from arguing that extreme intoxication led them to commit so-called "general intent" crimes like sexual assault or assault. But in 2022, the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the section as unconstitutional in the case of Matthew Brown, a Mount Royal University student-athlete who broke into the home of professor Janet Hamnett following a night of drinking and taking magic mushrooms. Witnesses said Brown was naked and "screaming like an animal" when police found him. He expressed remorse and apologized twice, in court and outside, after his acquittal. The top court said Section 33.1 was fundamentally flawed because of "the risk of wrongful convictions it presents" by punishing an accused in a situation where no reasonable person could have predicted that whatever they were taking might render them an automaton. "It contravenes virtually all the criminal law principles that the law relies upon to protect the morally innocent," the court said. "It enables conviction where the accused acted involuntarily, where the accused did not possess the minimum level of fault required, and where the Crown has not proven beyond a reasonable doubt the essential elements of the offence for which an accused is charged.""
Women know the truth: Britain is no longer a safe country - "Our country has changed. I remember a time when calling the police meant they would actually come. Now? When my kids were robbed, the police told me there weren’t enough resources to send someone. I had to do the dangerous legwork myself. I risked my life and the press called me “vigilante mum.” Well, Reform is for every vigilante mum out there... When you cut visible policing, half stop and search, empty the prisons and only charge 6 per cent of reported crimes, you hand control of our streets to the criminals. This isn’t just failure, it’s a dereliction of duty. I’m angry because the very people who won our votes with promises of safety have done the exact opposite. Why do there seem to be no police on our streets? Why isn’t there a laser focus on knife crime? Why aren’t people in balaclavas searched? Why are foreign rapists not deported? While these questions still go unanswered, the Government has the audacity to force through the Online Safety Bill, using child safety as cover to gag dissent. And when we call it what it really is, censorship, they accuse us of being “dangerous” and siding with predators: a level of hypocrisy only matched by their deceit. These are the same people who initially refused a national inquiry into the grooming gangs they protected for years. Then they act shocked when mothers protest. The Crown Prosecution Service’s so-called policy on violence against women and girls states that it is actually gender neutral and inclusive of men who identify as women. That’s not inclusion. That’s deleting us from our own safety laws."
Americans have started to notice something about Britain, and it’s not good - "One of the oldest balancing acts in the history of politics is the relationship between security and liberty. There is no magic formula for how to keep people safe while allowing them to live their lives freely, and the variables are constantly shifting... hat law-abiding majority must also be left in peace by the Government, which should rarely involve itself in their lives. Striking that balance isn’t always straightforward... all of this sits on a foundation of public trust. People must believe that the rules made by politicians are the right ones, and that they’re properly followed by law enforcement. The opposite of this is anarcho-tyranny: where criminals are ignored by the authorities who would rather come down like a tonne of bricks on normal people. In these circumstances, the state loses its legitimacy and our entire security apparatus crumbles... we now live in a country where people are sent to prison, and many more are visited by police, for things that they say online. Earlier this year, a retired special constable from Kent was arrested by the police after posting a tweet disparaging pro-Palestine marches, before facing criticism from those same officers for his “very Brexity” collection of books. Essex Police has also visited the home of journalist Allison Pearson following a post that she made on Twitter. And last year, Lucy Connolly was handed a 31 month prison sentence for a hastily-deleted post during the Southport riots. When the police spend 60,000 hours a year investigating “non-crime hate incidents”, is it any wonder that people aren’t willing to trust the Government with access to their private data? Should we be surprised if the public accepts that a foreign company can shield terrorists and paedophiles from justice, if it means they can live their lives in privacy and peace?"
In lawless Ottawa, anyone can simply go into a government run liquor store, take whatever they’d like off the shelf, and walk out without paying. : r/CanadianConservative - "True story. Literally seen a guy walk out of a store with 2 2-4 packs of beer and waved to the cashier on the way out while laughing. I was blown away and asked the cashier about it. He said they get robbed constantly and the cops do absolutely nothing as it’s “theft under 1000”. The crooks don’t give a fuck to even hide their faces because it’s literally zero consequences. I was back to the same store about a week later and they had chains on the beer cooler doors. Welcome to Canada folks. The best is yet to come"
Breaking911 on X - "UNREAL: Chicago Mayor Johnson says throwing violent criminals in jail is "racist." "It is racist! It is immoral! It is unholy!""
Ontario man charged in sexual assault of child had similar conviction - "A 25-year-old man who police allege forced his way into a home during the night in Welland, Ont., and violently sexually assaulted a toddler inside has been arrested and charged — and neighbours and friends say they are outraged that the man had been released from jail in March from a previous child sex offence... The accused is identified by police as Daniel Senecal, 25, of Welland. He is charged with aggravated sexual assault on a child, assault, assault by choking, breaking and entering a home and sexual interference with a child... Another mother in the area told National Post the suspect is the same man who sexually attacked her young son in 2021. She said the attack on her son largely mirrored the allegations in the weekend attack, including a nighttime sexual assault, although he did not break into the home as he was a guest at a relative’s house. She said he was arrested, charged and after two years of court hearings was sentenced to 18 months in jail, but was released six months early, in early March... “The fact that the justice system did not do more makes me hurt.”"
Time to release him on bail again
Geoff Russ: Yes Liberals, Canada is pretty much the Wild West today - "As of 2024, Statistics Canada data show that violent Criminal Code violations had increased by nearly 50 per cent since 2015. It is true that Canada is still statistically safer than the United States, but nobody should be taking this as an excuse or indicator that the status quo is acceptable. The most notable action taken by the Liberal government in the name of fighting crime has been to pick on legal gun owners. Police say that 90 per cent of handguns seized in Ontario following violent crimes were traced to the U.S., not the local firearms shop... Pierre Poilievre has proposed a “Stand on Guard” law, which would amend the law so that it is presumed that the use of force in defending one’s home was reasonable... Following Poilievre’s announcement, Attorney General Sean Fraser posted on X that “This isn’t the Wild West, this is Canada.” Fraser was deservedly panned for such a callous, flippant response, but it shows that the Liberals remain more concerned with lecturing about tone, rather than curbing crime."
Left wing logic: as long as you're better than the US and below the all time worst state, you don't need to make changes that threaten the left wing agenda. But of course, "trans genocide" is a thing even if they are murdered at a lower rate than the general population
‘Disturbing reality’: Winnipeg mayor calls for change after Unicity incident - "Winnipeg’s mayor says he’s frustrated and angry after the news of four teens arrested for an armed robbery attempt. Scott Gillingham told Global Winnipeg he wants to see more done to address repeat offenders in Canada, and has spoken with the federal justice minister on the topic. The incident, at the Unicity Walmart on Tuesday afternoon, involved a pair of young suspects with warrants for multiple breaches of court conditions. “The disturbing reality is we’ve got four young people — two of them 13 years old,” Gillingham said. “(Plus) a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old who, by the reports, have court orders that they’re breaching … and this is a consistent problem, a consistent theme: individuals arrested for committing crime who are breaching their court orders.” The mayor said governments are putting more law enforcement boots on the ground, as well as more money into youth programs, but there needs to be accountability for bad actors. “We have to have laws in this nation that prioritize the safety of the public and prioritize victims instead of seemingly defending the criminal,” he said. “It has to change. “Some of these people are just criminals doing criminal things. Sometimes they’re using young people — 13-year-olds — to commit crime. It’s not because they’re starving, it’s because they’re acting in a criminal way.”"
The left wing cope cannot be the usual one of blaming the provincial government for criminals being let out on bail, which is a federal policy. Unless they want to claim the Manitoba NDP is really conservative, which would let them continue to blame bad healthcare on conservative governments underfunding healthcare.
Gad Saad on X - "Several years ago, I was threatened in person by a Noble Person of Peace. I was walking with my then 10-year-old son. Here is what happened:
1) The police told me to call 911 if I'm attacked
2) The police told me that I did not have the right to carry any defensive weapons
3) The police told me that perhaps I should not speak out about the issues that drew the threat
4) Two detectives were put on the case. They tracked the actual footage of the interaction but the images were fuzzy. I asked them to perhaps provide me with a line up of likely suspects and I'd hopefully identify the culprit. Their response: It would be racist to engage in this type of profiling (the guy who threatened me was black)
These are the Canadian values that @MarkJCarney is proud of. Canadians do not have the intrinsic God-given right to defend themselves. The benevolent government is there to protect. Just call 911 and it will all work out. I discuss this story in Suicidal Empathy."
