Police Have to Play by the Rules, Too - Jayden Wlasichuk
Introduction: A key feature of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms are sections 8 and 9, which state: 8. Everyone has the right...
Turning Garbage into Gold: Physical Property vs. Abandoned Information - Shelly Neal
In the year 2021, personal data collection and privacy infringements seem to be the norm. Individual information is relinquished with the...
Police Search Powers and the Admission of Evidence (Privacy and Peril) - Thomas Mooney
Understanding how a society responds to a breach of an individual’s rights gives profound insight to how that society regards the rights...
Police Powers in the Metaverse: Why the Charter’s Section 8 Will Have to Change - N.J. Peterman
Chief Justice Dickson famously advised in Hunter v Southam that section 8 of the Charter protects “people, not places.”[1] With the...
Policing in the Defund Era: The SCC, Parliament, and the Contours of Police Powers - Keelin Griffin
In the wake of recent high profile cases of police violence in the United States, calls for reform and even defunding of the police...
