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Toronto Sun
2 hours ago
- Politics
- Toronto Sun
LILLEY: Judge's crazy gun ruling brings court into disrepute
Outrageous ruling throws out serious gun charges and puts future prosecutions at risk over judge's imagined views of racism. Get the latest from Brian Lilley straight to your inbox Justice Renu Mandhane is pictured on March 10, 2020 when she was head of the Ontario Human Rights Commission in this Postmedia file photo. A Trudeau-appointed judge in Brampton has thrown out serious gun charges, claiming the accused was only stopped and searched due to racism. Justice Renu Mandhane, the former head of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, has put the future of many prosecutions in jeopardy with this flimsy judgment that must be appealed and overturned. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Mandhane has sullied the reputation of the Peel Police Service, the officer in charge and let a man arrested with a loaded rifle in his car walk free without trial. In October 2023, Officer Anand Gandhi, a man originally from India who moved to Canada and became a police officer, was on patrol in Brampton. While driving past a red Jeep, Gandhi's automatic plate reader alerted him that the owner of that vehicle had a suspended driver's licence and the vehicle was 'impound eligible.' He was also alerted that the man was facing drug charges in Toronto. At this point, Officer Gandhi called for back-up and then proceeded to approach the vehicle where the driver confirmed his identity. At this point, Gandhi cuffed the man and put him in the back of the cruiser while an inventory of the vehicle was taken. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Adrian Wolley, president of the Peel Police Association, said that it's standard for officers to place suspects in the back of a cruiser and to conduct an inventory before a vehicle is impounded to ensure that no one can claim something was stolen. Recommended video 'To search the car is always done now,' Wolley said. 'We're not going to pop the engine and look through the glove box or anything like that, but we're going to go and lift mats or lift through bags and stuff like that because they could say, 'I had $5,000 cash, and the officer must have stolen it.'' Wooley said the search was legal and by the books, but Mandhane declared it an illegal search contrary to the Charter. She also found that the decision to put cuffs on the accused and put him in the back of the car was a Charter violation. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. To arrive at all of this, Mandhane relied on the notion that everything Gandhi did was because of racial bias and not good policing. 'On a balance of probabilities, I find that Officer Gandhi relied on information about the accused's outstanding charges (of which he was presumed innocent) combined with stereotypes about Black men being more prone to criminality and more dangerous than other people, to justify his decision to arrest and detain the accused,' Mandhane wrote. 'While Officer Gandhi's racial bias was likely unconscious and the product of our culture and his own worldview, that is not an excuse or even a mitigating factor in terms of the seriousness of the conduct,' she wrote. 'The fact that Officer Gandhi is himself is racialized — he is a Brown man — does not insulate him from the insidious power of anti-Black racism, stereotype, and racial bias.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. With this finding, Mandhane excluded the loaded gun, and anything the accused said, from being used at trial which means the man was let go. These are exactly the kinds of guns that the Liberals in Ottawa say they want to take off the streets; in fact, this model was banned five years ago, put on a prohibited list, but Liberal-appointed judges come up with rulings like this. Read More Meanwhile, legal, licensed gun owners who used to take guns like this to the range are prohibited from using them. They would face serious jail time for taking them to the range. If you possess an illegal Beretta CX4 and carry it around loaded in the back of your vehicle, you can be set free without even a trial, depending on your race — and if you can get before Mandhane. 'While firearms offences are serious, admitting the firearm into evidence in the context of this case would bring the administration of justice into disrepute,' she wrote. No Justice Mandhane, you and your decision bring the administration of justice into disrepute. Let's hope this outrageous decision is overturned. 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National Post
12 hours ago
- Business
- National Post
Carney projects calm but he's facing serious trouble: Full Comment podcast
With the King opening Parliament and a disciplined agenda, the prime minister modelled a poised and assured break from his unserious predecessor, while sending a message to the world about Canadian sovereignty. That's the verdict of Postmedia political columnist John Ivison and parliamentary bureau chief Stuart Thomson, who join Brian Lilley to discuss the first week of Mark Carney's re-elected government. Now, the easy part is over. Despite promises to cut spending, new estimates show the bureaucracy is out of control. U.S. President Donald Trump has revived his '51st state' ultimatum, using missile defence as a cudgel. And provincial premiers are circling with demands in advance of a first ministers' meeting. The panel runs through all the hard stuff for Carney that's just getting started. (Recorded May 30, 2025.)
Toronto Sun
16 hours ago
- Business
- Toronto Sun
Letters to the Editor, June 2, 2025
Monday letters Photo by Illustration / Toronto Sun RAISING THE IRE This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Re 'MPP salaries frozen in '09' (Brian Lilley, May 30: We Canadians must be the most gullible people in the world. We elect people who constantly lie, break ethics laws, use our money as their personal bank, get 19 weeks off each year, vote for their own raises and benefits, and get a full lucrative pension and benefits for a short tenure. I worked over 50 years, never collected a dime I did not earn, paid to government pension fund and now get $1,400 net a month. My yearly raises are in pennies compared to what the politicos get. What entity is allowed to give themselves raises except politicians? MPPs' raises went through the roof. Premier Doug Ford and the rest of them sure take care of their own and the heck with the average folk. It's not only Doug but all of the current politicians. No wonder people spend a fortune to get elected. Most of the current elected officials cannot truly relate to the hardship an average Canadian goes through. The only time this could change is if it was possible for the average person to get elected, which is an impossible task due to the high cost of campaigns. Being at the end of life, I really am not affected by most of the above but my grandkids, yours and your children's and the younger generation are in a heck of a bad future. God help Canada to get some sanity back for the survival of the future generations. Peter Jovic Orangeville (Amen to that!) CASHING IN So glad to see that MPPs' 35% salary increase took precedence over oil and gas development, interprovincial trade barriers, hospital and patient issues, upside down education system, immigration levels and housing affordability. They were able to prioritize what was most important to them. Bravo! Bill Jamieson Toronto (An incentive to get things done?) Editorial Cartoons Sports Toronto & GTA World Toronto & GTA
Toronto Sun
16 hours ago
- Politics
- Toronto Sun
LILLEY: High time province puts kibosh on wasteful boards renaming schools
Legislation comes after Toronto District School Board voted in February to rename several institutions Get the latest from Brian Lilley straight to your inbox A Toronto District School Board sign is shown in front of a high school in Toronto on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. Photo by Frank Gunn / THE CANADIAN PRESS Enough is enough: That's the message from Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Legislation introduced at Queen's Park last week will give the provincial government the authority to step in and correct school boards sooner – including when they try to rename schools. That means attempts to rename schools honouring people like Sir John A. Macdonald, Egerton Ryerson or Henry Dundas will need permission from the minister. 'I am, frankly, as done as all parents are and teachers are with a school system that has turned into a political battle zone,' Calandra said last week. 'Teach our kids, give the parents, the teachers the resources they need or we will step in and do the job for them.' His decision to introduce the Supporting Children and Students Act at Queen's Park came about after a string of stories of boards behaving badly. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. In London, Ont., the Thames Valley District School Board spent tens of thousands of dollars sending administrators to the hotel at the Rogers Centre for a retreat. That came as the board was in the middle of cutting resources for students. Read More That looks like peanuts compared to the $190,000 spent by the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic School Board on a trip to Italy to buy religious art for a new school. An investigation into that trip saw the province order board trustees involved in the trip to repay close to $50,000 of the trip's cost. Meanwhile, the Toronto District School Board voted in February to rename Dundas Junior Public School, Ryerson Community School and Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute, a move that will cost significant funds. Despite the law being introduced after the decision, it will, if passed, still cover this daft move by the TDSB. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'If a board began using a new school name on or after Jan. 1, 2025, but before the day section 5 of Schedule 2 to the Supporting Children and Students Act 2025 came into force, the minister may require the board to apply for approval of the name,' the bill says. Calandra made it clear that he's not in favour of Toronto's renaming plans, calling it a waste of money. 'At the exact same time, they're telling me that they have to maybe close school pools down or they have to fire teachers,' Calandra said. The minister's move to bring sanity to the system should be welcomed by all. Sadly, that's not the case with union officials, school board associations and opposition politicians denouncing the legislation, some even saying the problem is a lack of funding. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'The real issue here is that the system is under financial strain,' the Ontario Public School Boards' Association said in a statement. RECOMMENDED VIDEO It seems pretty clear to anyone who is watching that there is a real problem with school boards spending money on the wrong things, including their pet political projects. 'I want politics out of the schools first and foremost, right?' Calandra said. 'I don't need trustees to develop curriculum. I don't need them to give me advice on global affairs, but what I need them to do is put money into classrooms and into our teachers so our students can succeed. When they move away from that mission, I will have the authority under this legislation to put them back on track and ensure that they're focused on their main mission.' Ontario spends $30 billion per year on elementary and secondary schools, a figure that works out to about $14,000 per student. We aren't getting value for our money and a big part of that is wasted spending at the board level. The scandals that Calandra reacted to are egregious. If he wants to find the real waste, he will start looking into the consultant class inside every single school board. That's where the real financial waste will be found, along with many of the political problems he's trying to root out. Editorial Cartoons Sports Toronto & GTA World Toronto & GTA
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
LILLEY UNLEASHED: Is Poilievre done as Conservative leader?
WATCH BELOW as the Sun's political columnists Brian Lilley, Warren Kinsella and Lorrie Goldstein have some different thoughts on what the Conservative should do with Poilievre's future. What do YOU think? Tweet and Facebook us! And don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube Channel.
