Despite his sudden death, of natural causes, the Ontario government still wants it.
Further complicating the affair, is that even before the court process to determine whether Norwood’s house and business are indeed the proceeds of his criminal activity, the properties have already been sold and the government is trying to pay out some of the money, including to his elderly mother and to a man who was shot at the strip club.
The government is leaning on the power of Ontario’s Civil Forfeiture Act, a tool that can take away a citizen’s property deemed to be the proceeds of crime.
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OTTAWA - Elections commissioner Yves Cote says his office investigated 400 complaints about false statements allegedly made during the 2019 federal election campaign.
A man leaves a polling station after casting his ballot on federal election day in Shawinigan, Que., Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. Elections commissioner Yves Cote says his office investigated some 400 complaints about false statements allegedly made during the 2019 federal election campaign. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
OTTAWA - Elections commissioner Yves Cote says his office investigated 400 complaints about false statements allegedly made during the 2019 federal election campaign.
TORONTO: The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) is appearing today, May 12, at the Ontario Court of Appeal as an intervenor in a novel civil forfeiture case.
The case, AG (Ontario) v 947014 Ontario and Norwood Estate (Norwood Estate) involves the scope of the Ontario Civil Remedies Act. This is legislation that governs the seizure and forfeiture of assets suspected and determined to be proceeds of crime.
Norwood Estate involves assets, including a family home, that were seized as part of a drug trafficking prosecution where the accused later died before his trial. The Application for the forfeiture of the family home did not proceed, and a determination of whether the home was the proceeds of crime was never concluded. Despite this, court relied upon a provision of the Civil Remedies Actto approve a forced settlement between the deceasedâs estate and his mother, who alleges to have a claim to a portion of the home.
A Look at the Liberal Government’s Different Internet Content Control Measures
The Liberal government’s Bill C-10, which has been criticized by the opposition and advocates for its potential to limit free speech, is part of a number of measures and directives issued by the federal government for internet and speech control.
These measures include introducing new regulations for online content, a legal framework to address “online hate,” as well as a struck-down section of Canada’s elections law to combat “fake news” during elections.
In his mandate letters to a number of ministers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau listed “online hate and harassment” together with “ideologically motivated violent extremism and terrorist organizations” in the same sentence requesting the ministers’ action, signalling the importance of combatting online hate.
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Legal challenges to the federal quarantine hotel policy continue to work their way through the courts, with another decision that was released on April 23. This decision was a minor procedural setback that will not have a bearing on the challenge to the policy. But the decision has attracted significant attention and is worth understanding.
Friday’s decision was about a request by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) and some individual travellers to temporarily suspend the quarantine hotel policy until the full legal challenge can be heard, later this year. The JCCF and these travellers were seeking what is called an injunction, which would suspend the quarantine hotel policy, because individuals are being harmed while they wait for the full challenge to be heard.