from the window of the Saltspring Island TTC #commute

this is the week when magical Saltspring Island imitates the luminous first page of Dickens' Bleak House ... rain to the horizon, fog for the ages, clouds half the size of PEI

random #saltspring island sunset photo

MPW v Victoria (City) 2024 BCCA 19 canlii.ca/t/k2b48: unsuccessful civil action against police (false arrest, neg. investigation); plaintiff/appellant not arguing findings, but instead that T-J did not adequately accommodate his disabilities; notable "self-represented" case

R v McKee 2023 ABKB 698 canlii.ca/t/k1kh3: decision of presiding officer making a finding of misconduct following a hearing under Alberta Police Act; "information of misconduct" in the decision is first-party information requiring disclosure in accordance with R v McNeil

important SCC judgment confirming principles governing treatment of credibility & reliability on appeal (relevant to professional discipline tribunals that rely on criminal law principles re credibility/reliability): R v Kruk 2024 SCC 7 esp at paras 69-99 canlii.ca/t/k39g6

podcast recommendation: William Ury on the Tim Ferriss Show t.ly/it-8l - a negotiation masterclass ... Ury's book "Possible" also recommended (would be great to move commercials to end, avoiding intruding halfway into people of this calibre offering their wisdom)

even Nardia Plumridge's skill does not do justice to s.forno, the best bakery in the whole history of the world ... angels with their tiny fingers making the delicacies, and ... you can even buy a metà ... AND the delirious Il Santo bevitore is steps away lostinflorence.it/?s=s.forno

announcing update 42 to my text Legal Aspects of Policing, rewriting half of ch 3 (police civil liability): trespass, use of force, arrest (including treatment of R v Tim 2022 SCC 12, Hayes v Saint John (City) (#3) 2023 NBCA 79, Land v Dryden Police Services Board 2023 ONCA 207)

announcing update 43 to my text Legal Aspects of Policing, rewriting ch 2 (police duties) and ch 4 (provincial police commissions and municipal police boards)

even on a rainy day, the occasional commutes are gorgeous Seair Seaplanes

arriving home, velvet landing on the water, thank you Seair Seaplanes #commute #saltspringisland

un canadese immensamente grato per l'opportunità di essere presente a Teatro della Pergola per le esibizioni ultraterrene di Anna Fedorova il 1o marzo e Yulianna Avdeeva il 22 marzo ... sembrava che il tempo si fosse fermato ... il programma del 22 marzo è appeso alla parete del mio

noteworthy Ontario Divisional Court judgment in Zarabi-Majd v Toronto Police Service 2025 ONSC 277 canlii.ca/t/k8sn7 ... three issues: (i) treatment of obligation to reasonably accommodate disability at a police misconduct hearing (whether accommodation is adjournment sine

Responding to various inquiries: my coauthor Scott Childs and I are writing a new annotation, Ontario Police Statutes, Fully Annotated, to replace the Ontario Police Services Act, Fully Annotated. The new annotation will capture both the CSPA and the SIUA, and also annotate at

Lagacé v Canada (Attorney General) 2026 FC 74 ... application for judicial review in the context of the RCMP, challenging purported police failure to investigate an incident and/or lay charges; FC confirming principle that when RCMP “conducts or declines to conduct a criminal

Tican v Alamgir 2025 ABKB 517 ... unprecedented: broad “court-initiated process” designed to respond to “proceedings instituted or conducted in a vexatious manner”; Tican’s litigation and regulatory misconduct “has harmed the Courts, tribunals, law enforcement bodies, and others

related to Tican v Alamgir 2025 ABKB 517: police-related vexatious proceedings becoming ever-more common ... see Twyford v Toronto (City) 2025 HRTO 1934 (Human Rights Code complaint alleging that police board committed discrimination because complainant subjected to “sirens and

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