Recently, we’ve seen waves of low-grade violence, chaos, and political upheaval in Western countries. Any society that refuses to enforce laws or treat the mentally ill should not be surprised when tragedy strikes. Liberal obstruction is high, but letting cannibals run amok eventually consumes the whole of society.
Ontario’s top court has blocked a man who sexually abused children from being called to the bar, granting a victory to Ontario’s legal regulator after years of unsuccessfully trying to deny the man a licence.
A 2023 decision by the independent Law Society Tribunal finding that the man was of good character to be licensed was “unreasonable,” the Court of Appeal ruled Monday. The man is identified only as AA due to a publication ban.
Why was this under consideration to begin with?
In 2005, at the age of 17, Michael Williams participated in the torturous murder of 13-year-old Nina Courtepatte. He lured the girl from West Edmonton Mall to a golf course with four of his friends. A member of the group hit Courtepatte in the head with a wrench, knocking her to the ground; Williams and one of his companions then raped her as the others held her down. After further torture (including numerous cuts to the face), Williams and co. bludgeoned her in the head with a hammer until she died.
Convicted sex offender Michael L’Enfant offered his teen target a cute addendum to his twisted missives.
It was a SHHHH emoji, meaning, let’s keep this quiet. Our little secret. That emoji is a perfect stand-in for a justice system that cares not a whit for victims of sexual assault, be they young or old. The privacy rights of pedophiles and rapists trumps everything.
When Ani Rathore got a call from staff at his Javawocky Coffee House saying Aiden Tye was in his establishment, he knew trouble was brewing.
“It was just like a ticking time bomb,” he said Wednesday.
Catch and release … HUNTER: Is accused sex trafficker Skye Atoa poster boy for broken bail?
Lethbridge Police re-arrested and charged an accused sex offender for breaching the conditions of a release order approximately half an hour after his release from custody. READ MORE: https://t.co/lXFX1YORXk #yql https://t.co/cbhS63NaE4
— Lethbridge Police (@lethpolice) January 14, 2026
h/t Mauser
The man accused of what appears to be the random killing of a University of Toronto student should never have been out on the street.
But, once again, the Parole Board of Canada rolled the dice with our safety.
Two accused killers, one of them from Toronto, beat murder charges Friday after a judge in Ottawa found it took too long for them to go on trial. For the Ottawa defendant, it was the second time a murder case against him has collapsed over issues with the prosecution.
“It is most unfortunate that this double homicide and attempt murder case will not be tried on its merits,” Superior Court Justice Ian Carter said, reading his reasons for halting the prosecution. “The law is clear, however. The court has no choice. A stay of proceedings is the only remedy that can be granted.”
As our family waits for the upcoming trial date after almost four years since the homicide of my father, we brace for yet another notification that proceedings may once again be postponed.
This uncertainty has become a defining feature of our experience with Canada’s criminal justice system — a system that appears structured to tolerate delay, even when those delays deepen trauma for victims and their families. Each time the phone rings, we wonder whether justice will finally move forward or be pushed further out of reach.
A recent court decision out of Ontario reveals how judges’ hands are tied when it comes to sentencing hard-core criminals.
Justice Craig Brannagan was sentencing Justin Anderson for repeatedly flashing a handgun at a woman he forcibly confined for a week the spring of 2024 while he travelled through the province selling drugs, and for later terrorizing another woman at gunpoint he believed to be an informant. Both the Crown and defence lawyers in Anderson’s case had recommended he be sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison. The judge dubbed their position “very lenient,” but he went along with it, anyway.
If Canadians have ever felt like they had a handle on who goes to jail, when and why, and for how long, it’s tough to believe they do nowadays. Or if they think they do, chances are good they’re not too happy about it. Once you notice how many news stories there are about people who have been accused or convicted of violent crimes, and then gotten out on bail or parole, and then been latterly accused or convicted of further violent offences, it is quite difficult to un-notice it.
It’s been two years since an Oshawa judge acquitted Ashley Jansen of sexually assaulting a student and slammed the police investigation that ruined her life – yet still no one has been held accountable.
A crime is a crime. That should not be controversial. Yet in Canada today, whether a law is enforced often depends less on the Criminal Code and more on political fashion, prosecutorial discretion, or judicial interpretation. That is not justice. That is chaos.
This is not about ideology. It is about the basic purpose of law. If Parliament passes laws that are routinely ignored, softened, or selectively enforced, then the law itself becomes meaningless. And when laws lose meaning, public order erodes. Canadians are seeing the consequences of that erosion every day.
In Canada, we now have bail for people charged with sexual assault, kidnapping with a firearm and possession of an illegal firearm. We also have reduced sentences for repeat violent sexual offenders based on their race.
It’s an outrageous situation and both instances are due to bad Liberal justice policies.
For more than 36 years, Tim Rees has been considered the most heinous of criminals — a child killer.
The 62-year-old emerged Thursday from the downtown Toronto courthouse into the wintry sunshine, that yoke of shame finally lifted after the Crown withdrew the murder charge against him.
Good God.
In his bill designed to “keep kids safe from predators,” Justice Minister Sean Fraser has proposed that Canada get rid of the six-month minimum for rape of a child under 16 — and every other minimum on the books other than for murder and treason.
It’s one of several problematic provisions buried in the middle of Bill C-16, which Fraser jubilantly tabled Tuesday. And to be fair to him, the bill isn’t completely bad: it would criminalize deepfake and bestiality porn, would make child sextortion a crime that comes with a minimum of one year in jail, and would supposedly make charges a little harder to kill when a trial runs over deadline. Those changes are very welcome.
