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Winnipeg Free Press: Man, 19, charged in antisemitic graffiti incidents

Fiona Odlum — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:50:56 +0000

Three Criminal Code offences specifically pertain to hate under a hate propaganda section, said Kenneth Grad, an assistant professor in the University of Manitoba faculty of law.

The offences are advocating genocide, public incitement of hatred and willful promotion of hatred. A subsection says a person willfully promotes antisemitism by condoning, denying or downplaying the Holocaust.

A separate section includes the offence of mischief against religious property motivated by hate, Grad noted.

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Winnipeg Free Press: Police, prosecutors disagree on Criminal Code release ‘mandate’

Fiona Odlum — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:21:19 +0000

U of M law professor Brandon Trask, who used to work as a Crown attorney in the Maritimes, said he finds the police use of the term “mandated” concerning.

“It’s concerning that the public is being left with the impression that our law mandates release. Our law, generally speaking, does not mandate release — that’s a judgment call,” said Trask.

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CBC News: Winnipeg police officer with history of misconduct allegations accused of wrongful arrests

Fiona Odlum — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:28:04 +0000

At the beginning of August, over five months later, the phone he used to take the video was finally returned.

One expert CBC spoke to said a Crown attorney would find this a difficult case to prosecute.

“They’d have to ask themselves, ‘Is this in the public interest here?’ You know, this started with a parking ticket,” said Brandon Trask, an assistant law professor at the University of Manitoba and former Nova Scotia Crown attorney.

To read the full story, please visit CBC News.

Here is also the tv treatment of the story.