New & Notable: You don't need a balaclava to shovel snow in Kitchener...

Pierre Robert used to be a member of the Bloods gang. He had a 9mm handgun. He didn’t have a license to possess the handgun nor, of course, for the prohibited 15 round cartridge magazine found with the gun. He lived in his mom's basement. He kept his gun there, above the bar located in the basement, wrapped in a balaclava. The police found that gun. Robert was charged. He sought to exclude the evidence of that discovery from his trial. He did not succeed: 2012 ONSC 2672.   

When Robert was 15, his brother, Daniel, and his father were convicted of attempted murder of Robert’s mother, Ms Aylott. In 2010, the brother, Daniel, was released on parole and required to reside at a halfway house. When he didn’t report to the facility one night a Canada wide warrant was issued... read more...