The Canadian Criminal Code
(the “Code”) sets forth the parameters of legal gaming in Canada. The Code
generally prohibits sports-based wagering except where such wagering is conducted and managed by the provincial governments; however, section 207(4)(b) of the Code prohibits even those governments from offering wagering on the outcome of a single sporting event or contingency thereon.
The rationale for creating the sports betting regime in this way in 1985 derived from the Canadian Federal Government’s attempt to limit the potential for match manipulations. However, technological advances and statistical tools that have since become available can enable sportsbook operators to closely monitor illegal acts that give rise to match-fixing, so the danger of match-fixing no longer justifies the prohibition.
Police union calls for bail reform as suspect in attempted murder of officer released
by News staff
Last Updated Apr 10, 2021 at 1:00 pm EDT
Police cars parked outside the scene of a bank robbery in Mimico. CITYNEWS/Sean Toussaint
The Toronto Police Association (TPA) is calling for a review of how bail laws are applied and interpreted after the release of a man charged with attempted murder of a police officer.
Neeklanth Shah, 18, was released Friday on bail after being arrested on March 26 in connection with a Mimico bank robbery that injured two officers.
One officer was stabbed in the abdomen and the other suffered cuts to both hands during a “violent struggle to arrest the suspects.”
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B.C. Attorney General David Eby tried not to sound churlish in his support of the suite of federal measures aimed at addressing systemic racism in the country’s legal system.
Who can blame him? The federal announcement was filled with fine-sounding rhetoric; but the province gets to provide the services and pick up most of the tab.
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Federal Attorney General David Lametti on Thursday unveiled a package of measures to address the staggering over-incarceration of Black and Indigenous peoples amending the Criminal Code and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to repeal mandatory minimum penalties for certain drug, firearm and tobacco offences and adopting more holistic, community-based sentences and diversion programs.
iPolitics By Tim Naumetz. Published on Feb 9, 2021 4:42pm Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to unveil his government s latest bid to strengthen Canada s gun control laws this morning. (Canada Border Services Agency handout photo)
A Federal Court judge has rejected a request from gun owners to temporarily suspend the Liberal cabinet’s controversial ban of assault-style rifles until a court case on the prohibition comes to a final ruling in the case.
The decision released today by Federal Court Associate Chief Justice Jocelyn Gagné means the hearings will begin again, to a final ruling, after several of the gun owners and firearm businesses sought a suspension of the prohibition until a court ruling on its legality.
He graduated from Otago University, beginning his career with O’Driscoll and Marks Solicitors in Dunedin. Following that he joined Cruickshank Pryde Lawyers and spent four years working for Drew Jones Solicitors in England before returning to Invercargill. Mika is the deputy president of the Invercargill Licensing Trust and ILT Foundation, trustee of Miharo, and a member of council for the Southland Branch of the New Zealand Law Society. Mika played rugby for the Highlanders, Otago, the Southland Stags and Manu Samoa, and played in the 1995 and 1999 Rugby World Cups as a prop. Invercargill Licensing Trust president Alan Dennis said it would be a significant loss for Invercargill and ILT, and a gain for the district court as he was a quality lawyer.