Leonardo Rizzuto, who’s been a lawyer since 1999, has had his licence to practice law suspended while awaiting trial for murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Rizzuto is currently behind bars.
Meantime, Stefano Sollecito, also rounded up in the June 12 swoop on Montreal’s mob – and arrested in a wheelchair – wants to wait for his trial at home because he’s seriously unwell.
The Mohawks of Kahnawake have a longstanding claim on a much larger piece of the South Shore, once known as the Seigneurie de Sault Saint‑Louis. The federal government has been hedging on the case for years, since the borders encompass large parts of St‑Constant, Ste‑Catherine and Candiac, and all of Delson.
Nobody ever makes a claim on Longueuil.
The Saugeen Nation just reclaimed the well-known resort destination, Sauble Beach in Ontario much the consternation of the locals businesses and town. Good for them. It was wrongfully taken in 1856…
I firmly support the Land Back movement.
If a First Nation reclaims a piece of its traditional land, what happens to someone who owns a house that happens to be on that land and which they bought in ignorance of the prior claim?
What happens if you buy stolen property ?
Evidently if you buy a stolen watch you have to give it back. But what does the government do for you, if you’ve sunk your savings into a property where you’re living, but the area is given back? Are you supposed to just shrug and walk away?
I don’t know what justice is in a situation like this.
I would think that the government would be on the hook to compensate existing non first Nations residents.
There’s a whole category of law aroudn this, I was being glib about stoeln property.
If your unknowingly buy stolen property, it is simply seized. You have no recourse. Knowingly purchasing or even hanging on to it is a chargeable offense.
For treaty rights, it’s essentially a question of who the treaty was with. If the treaty is found to be in violation the treaty can be renogotiated or simply cancelled. Any sale of land that was under treaty where the sale does not respect the terms of the treaty is in violation and the buyers can sue the treaty violators if they bought the land form them directly. If they bought it from a third partythey might no longer have recourse, but again, it depends. This is why I brought up Sauble Beach as much of that property has been owned by generations, is cherished family property, and is highly profitable … but those familes don’t have land claim. They will have ot sue the province in turn.
Similarly, much of the West Island was stolen from the Mohawks by the Sulpicians. You may have heard about this one.
At least one shot was fired downtown Thursday morning outside the Simons store when a shoplifter was pursued outside the store by a security guard. Nobody got hurt but the perp has not been caught.
Important to note that the alleged perp fired the shot, not the security guard or a cop.
Thanks, Blork.
Are security guards even allowed to be armed, at least in retail settings?
Apparently a handgun costs at least $5,000 on the black market. I guess the shoplifter spent on their money on the gun and can’t afford clothes anymore?
Or he stole the gun too, being a thief and all.
Or he manifested it by wishing hard enough, as long as we’re making stuff up.
@Kate security has guns in retail settings when collecting cash, but that is a very specific thing. it’s calledCash Services Armed Guards.
But there is a difference being described as a “shoplifter” vs trying an armoured car robbery, no?
Bert, sure, but there are ranges of “shoplifter” too. This is not poor grandma desperately stealing needed food. This is someone who fired a gun at another human being. If he could do that, he could steal a gun too I’d wager. It’s at least more likely than whatever Ian’s on about.
I don’t know that you want to be stealing from the kind of person who sells handguns.
Could be an organized shoplifting gang. Could be an international spy looking to make a quick change getaway. Could be a gunrunner who also likes to shoplift. Could be a rogue cop looking to steal goods to cover tehir dooughnut habit.
Just saying, there’s no point in speculation without more detail, and “stole the gun” is kind of a strange assumption. Sure it’s within the realm of possobility but so are lots of other things.
A government investigation into how Vanier CEGEP was handling matters connected to affairs in the Middle East made the situation worse.
This is a brief CP piece, but consider these two paragraphs:
The Quebec Education Department published a report last week about Dawson and Vanier colleges that found the schools have little control over course content, including language classes focused on Palestinian culture.
The report says the Quebec government should pass a new law to regulate academic freedom in the college system.
Does Quebec want tight controls over what the schools, and individual professors, can teach, or is that what (in a purely Orwellian sense) “academic freedom” is supposed to mean?
What good is freedom if it isn’t regulated? /s
Grim, but unsurprising from the “Daddy Knows Best” CAQ.
The woman whose three-year-old was lost and then found last month is facing a new charge of criminal negligence, in addition to child abandonment. Questions about the woman’s state of mind remain. She can’t be named, following a court order.
CBC radio says the woman could do serious time over criminal negligence. Would this help the situation? Shouldn’t she be offered mental health and social support instead so that her kid doesn’t have to visit her in prison?
Quebec is to allow restaurants to charge $10 for no‑shows*. Although ten bucks will hardly offset the loss of an entire table during the dinner rush, it’s at least an acknowledgement of the problem.
*Note to OQLF, is “no-show” also partiellement légitimé if TVA uses it?
$10 *per person* – probably enough at least to stop people form making multiple reservations and not cancelling the ones they choose to forego…
$10 each is admittedly better. If someone has to pay $60 to no‑show on a table for six, they might think twice, although for some people this wouldn’t be much of a deterrent.
But it gets complicated if you do it per person. For example, what if you book a table for six and only five show up? Do you penalize them $10?
It would work OK I guess if it were set up so the entire “fine” were void as long as SOMEONE showed up. There would be the odd case of a table for 4 being booked and only one or two show, but that would be rare I think. The main thing would be to penalize for complete no-shows.
Also: even if it were capped at $10 it would still help a bit. Not a complete solution, but people are cheap AF and it would cut down on the people who make reservations willy-nilly, such as one person I know who frequently makes reservations at three or four places and THEN opens the discussion of “where should we go to eat on Friday?” (And AFAIK he doesn’t cancel the ones that they don’t go to.)
If I ran a restaurant, I`d maintain a list of no-shows.
I`m curious to see how this will be implemented. Is it a reservation fee paid at the time of reservation, with the fee refunded on your invoice? Are you providing CC info at reservation to be charged only if you don`t show up? Will they just be stuck to try and find you to collect if you don`t show?
Blork, your acquaintance is a jerk and I’m surprised you want to associate with a jerk like that.
roberto, it would be meaningless unless they got credit card details at reservation time.
Kate, I said it’s a person I know, not a person I associate with.
I’ve heard of a lot of people doing that (reserving at several restaurants and then choosing one.) When I heard about that, I was astonished and horrified that anyone would have the audacity to do such a thing.
If anything this calcualtedly self-serving behaviour is one of the real indications of the collapse of social norms, not graffit or protest.
I think a lot of it is that the internet has broken social bonds that, in the past, would have made much of this behaviour more difficult. Before the online platforms, you would have had to go through the trouble of calling a restaurant to make a reservation then talk to an actual person and enter into a sort of contract between two living humans. Now you just open an app, put in a bit of information and submit. That lack of human connection is gone so it doesn’t feel like you’re screwing over an actual person. Also, it’s just so easy to do so you can make multiple reservations in the time it previously would have taken to make just one. I recently heard that authors are losing money on people buying books from Amazon and after reading them, sending them back for a refund. Before Amazon, you would buy a book from a bookstore and if you wanted to return it after reading it, you’d have to explain yourself to the person working at the bookstore. A very different interaction. I’m sure there are many other examples like this.
There was an interview on CBC Daybreak recently about a restaurant getting rid of their online reservation system and making customers call and talk to someone or leave a message and no-shows dropped dramatically.
The OQLF has announced that it’s now acceptable to use the word “go” to encourage sports teams, although the STM has not confirmed whether it will restore the word on its buses in season.
It’s such a relief to know that “go” is partiellement légitimé!
There’s something about this whole discussion that is still unsettling.
If it’s considered grammatically correct to say “Toronto Maple Leafs” because a team is a singluar entity, why is it “les” Canadiens? Should we be saying “va”? Or is “l’équipe” not considered a collective noun in French? We say “l’équipe est prête”, not “sont prêtes”… what’s up with that?
I think they should stick with “Aweille les Habs” but whatever.
Alors, on se donne le “go”…
True true. I mean this is a language where “vagina” is masculine noun, I can’t reasonably expect it to make sense. not like English does either, haha
A bomb threat issued to the airports in six Canadian cities meant an evacuation of the control tower at Trudeau early Thursday morning, stopping and delaying flights, but things returned to normal fairly fast.
I’m going to pick up somebody coming in frm Lisbon and I see their flight will actually be 10 minutes early. Fast recovery, very impressive.
I just got back from dropping off a friend at the airport and there were lots of police cars at the USA departure doors. I guess this might explain it.
The Montreal smoked meat sandwich has been included on CNN’s 25 world’s best sandwiches list.
TVA lists three places where you can get the fabled sandwich.
Funny the CBC article shows Schwartz’s in their pic as they don’t actually smoke their meat anymore.
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