A spike in impaired driving-related collisions has caused Ontario’s provincial police to begin enforcing mandatory alcohol screening at all traffic stops in the Greater Toronto Area -- a move one civil rights group says is ‘not acceptable.’
“We’ve seen impaired drivers, with you know, not a lot of breath smells and out in the wind, in the weather, it’s hard to determine,” OPP Highway Safety Division Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said in an interview with CP24. “And now this takes away any bias, any situations, we’re just going to be testing everybody.”“If you don’t provide a breath sample, that’s a bad satiation as well. You will be charged criminally with refusing, and that is a criminal charge, like failing .
While the measure is sparking some backlash, criminal defence lawyer Lydia Riva says MAS has been part of the law since five years ago so police are legally allowed to do it. Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit has released new details about a wrong-way collision in Whitby on Monday night that claimed the lives of four people.Jurors in Trump hush money trial hear recording of pivotal call on plan to buy affair story
After a lengthy series of instructions from Justice Dan Cornell, a Sudbury jury is deliberating whether to find a suspect guilty of three counts of manslaughter or three counts of murder.An intoxicated man wearing only his underwear and a lifejacket had to be pulled from the Thessalon River early Wednesday evening.