Strengthening Police Oversight and Providing Tools for Missing Persons Cases
Ontario is overhauling its policing laws with changes to police duties and strengthened oversight rules meant to address concerns from minority groups of unjust treatment and inadequate investigations into police misconduct. The changes are long overdue, ...
Read MoreA Day to Remember Walk
November 1, 2017, marks the ‘A Day to Remember’ walk for the seven Nishnawbe Aski Nation high school students who died in Thunder Bay from 2000-2011. Reggie Bushie body was found in the McIntyre River on Nov. 1, 2007. The other students...
Read MoreLaw Society’s Governing Board Changes Name to Law Society of Ontario
Today, Convocation voted to change the regulator’s name from the Law Society of Upper Canada to the “Law Society of Ontario.” “Our role at the Law Society is to act in the public interest and serve the public, which means we need ...
Read MoreThunder Bay Police Constable, Steudle, Linked to Racist Facebook Comments, Charged with Discreditable Conduct
On September 17, 2016, Thunder Bay Police Constable, Rob Steudle, posted racist comments on Facebook that “Natives are killing Natives,” which was posted in response to a letter to the editor of the local paper from Nishnawbe Aski Nation Gran...
Read MoreNo ‘One-Size-Fits-All’ Solution to the Province’s Bail System
Toronto Star reports, Black people in Ontario spend more time in jail awaiting trial than white people, even when charged with the same type of crime, according to data recently released by the province. Government officials admit it’s yet another syste...
Read MoreFalconair Lands at Fisher Field
Falconair expresses appreciation to Dave Fisher, at Fisher Field Airport, for the hospitality south of Shelburne. Julian Falconer landed at Fisher Field to attend a Law Society retreat at Hockley Valley. For more information on Fisher Field Airport click...
Read MoreLaw Society drops “Upper Canada” from its name
Update: On October 17, 2017, The Lawyer’s Daily reported that with “Upper Canada” being officially dropped from the title of Ontario’s law society, the regulator is in the process of determining what its new name should be. Falconer was quoted...
Read MoreFalconers LLP Lawyer Elected to the Board of the YMCA of Greater Toronto
Falconers LLP is pleased to announce that one of our associates, Akosua Matthews, has been elected to the Board of the YMCA of Greater Toronto, as the first Board Member under the age of 35. Akosua previously served on the YMCA of Greater Toronto’s ...
Read MoreProtesters Gather Outside Oshawa Courthouse for Dafonte Miller
Cp24 reports that Members of Black Lives Matter- Toronto and the Anti-Racism Network of Durham Region held a rally outside the Oshawa courthouse on Wednesday, September 27, 2017, ahead of a pre-trial hearing for Toronto Police Officer, Michael Theriaul...
Read MoreOntario Police Watchdog systemic review of the Thunder Bay Police Service
Update: CBC reports that Gerry McNeilly, Ontario’s Independent Police Review Director, hosted a three-hour-long public meeting, which an estimated over-250 people attended in Thunder Bay on Monday, September 25, 2017. McNeilly says he still expect...
Read MoreFailure to call for Senator Beyak’s Resignation: Thunder Bay City Council
In a press release on September 26, 2017, Nishnawbe Aski Nation’s (“NAN”) Grand Chief, Alvin Fiddler, and Fort William First Nation’s (“FWFN”) Chief Peter Collins, communities provided legal council by Falconers LLP, is...
Read MoreDafonte Miller Case Prompts Durham Police to Adopt New SIU Notification Procedure
In the wake of the Dafonte Miller case, the Durham Regional Police Chief, Paul Martin, vowed to implement a new policy for reporting incidents to the Special Investigations Unit (“SIU”) CP24 reports. In a written statement released Monday, Sep...
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