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- Very few pardons for pot possession have been granted since 2019
- Canada’s courts are in crisis, and Ottawa isn’t doing enough about it
- Busted at 18, an Ontario man says he lost his career to Ottawa’s broken pot pardon process
- 3 years after weed legalization, Ontario man still can’t enter U.S. due to 20-year-old pot charge
- Canada’s overall crime rate drops 8% during pandemic
- Pardon applications now available to most with pot possession record
- Liberals move to grant pardons for old pot possession convictions
- Pot pardon legislation coming soon: Goodale
- Federal government refutes claims that pot pardons could cause problems at the border
- ‘Was it fair to punish them?’ Feds promise faster pot pardons, but some want convictions expunged
- With pot legalization will come pardons — but it’s not the same as amnesty, advocate says
- Pardons don’t go far enough. Convictions for cannabis possession must be expunged
- Tens of thousands of Canadians could soon be eligible for a pot pardon, but lawyers warn about limitations
- Canadians convicted of simple cannabis possession will soon be able to apply for a pardon
- Applying for a pot pardon could get you flagged and barred at the U.S. border, legal experts warn
- NDP to table bill pardoning Canadians with pot convictions
- Canadians who smoke marijuana legally, or work or invest in the industry, will be barred from the U.S.: Customs and Border Protection official
- Government hears support for making it easier, cheaper to obtain a criminal pardon
- Government inaction to blame for unequal access to criminal pardons, lawyers claim
- Retroactive changes to criminal pardons violate charter rights, B.C. judge rules
- Thousands of criminals could be released because of clogged courtrooms, delays: Senate report
- Life of crime: One former inmate’s journey through prison and back
- Lower pardon fees mulled for minor offences as part of review
- Pardons system’s harsher rules block ex-criminals from jobs, housing
- Public safety minister vows to overhaul ‘punitive’ criminal pardons system
- Couple ‘shocked’ moving company sent employee with criminal record into their home
- Trudeau mandates pot legalization, overhaul of Conservative justice reforms
- Liberal justice: Experts expect less punitive, more principled approach to crime
- Criminal justice not that just, or humane
- Man crowdfunding his fight against the 10-year wait for a legal pardon
- Pardons backlog can be cleared, says Blaney, but parole board has no time frame
- What not to do while waiting for a plane: From fidgeting to whistling, checklist reveals how to spot a terrorist
- Criminal pardons backlog stalled amid funding cut
- ‘No judgment, no discretion’: Police records that ruin innocent lives
- Not so fast, marijuana possession is still a crime, pot point man says
- 9 reasons Canada’s crime rate is falling
- ‘No judgment, no discretion’: Police records that ruin innocent lives
- 10 reasons to oppose Bill C-10
- A tough-on-crime bill that goes too far
- Bill could exile ‘thousands’ of permanent residents for minor crimes
- Border deal fuels concerns in Canada
- Canada wants to fingerprint first
- Canada’s crime rate falls
- Canadian crime rate hits lowest level in 40 years as Tories enact harsh new policies
- Conservative crime bill heads to Commons for final showdown
- Criminal justice not that just, or humane
- Criminal pardons backlog stalled amid funding cut
- Criminal record: The stain that won’t go away
- Dropped criminal charges should be erased from background checks, civil liberties group argues
- Foreign Nationals to have harder time getting pardoned
- Harper draws on spectre of Homolka
- Man crowdfunding his fight against the 10-year wait for a legal pardon
- Man turned away from U.S. for 24-year-old drug charge
- No charges, no trial, but presumed guilty
- Pardon bill agreement reached
- Pardons backlog can be cleared, says Blaney, but parole board has no time frame
- Parole Board sifts through thousands in pardon backlog
- Police can keep, share records, even after charges dropped: Court
- Super Bowl contest winner denied entry to U.S.
- Tories roll nine bills into massive crime proposal
- Tories use majority to pass omnibus crime bill
- Tory bill would replace pardons with harder-to-get ‘record suspensions’ >
- U.S. will be allowed to share Canadian border info under new privacy charter
- United States and Canada Act Jointly to Combat Cross-Border Crime >
- VIA terror plot prompts tightening of pardoning rules
- What not to do while waiting for a plane: From fidgeting to whistling, checklist reveals how to spot a terrorist
- Winnipeg Sun: Assaults causing bodily harm have actually risen sharply
- With Homolka eligible, Tories to tighten pardon system
- Withdrawn charges can stay on record, court rules >