According to the Globe and Mail, the Tory government intends to introduce legislation allowing police to obtain and retain fingerprints for anyone detain by police, whether they are ultimately charged or not.  Under present law, before police are permitted to retain fingerprints of an individual, that person must be charged with an indictable offence.  Read more

As of today, May 1, 2009, any driver’s caught driving with their blood alcohol between 0.05 to 0.08 (the Criminal Code legal limit is 0.08) will have their licence suspended automatically for three days. If the same thing happens again, then that suspension will be increased to seven days with reeducation program; a third time Read more