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Canadas Police State that isn't supposed to exist.
Wow. Your "ally"
In a January 2021 ruling, an Ontario Court Justice criticized Toronto police officers for entering a suspected stash house and looking in a partly-opened suitcase, kitchen cupboard, washroom vanity, and an ottoman — before a warrant arrived.
Justice Mara Greene ultimately allowed the evidence against the accused, who was targeted as part of a drug investigation dubbed Project Sparta. But she didn't let the officers go uncriticized.
"The search conducted by the officers was outside the scope permitted by law," Greene wrote in her decision.
Had the name of the accused not appeared in a Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) memo, members of the public might never have known about Greene's comments.
That's because many of the memos the PPSC prepares describing allegations of police misconduct are heavily redacted before being released via access to information legislation.
CBC News obtained PPSC memos whose blacked-out pages suggest the government's censorship could conceal information already aired in an open courtroom.
In cases where the name of the accused was not redacted, it is possible to locate publicly-available court records and fill in the information the PPSC may have censored before the memo's release.
Without that, it's impossible to learn more about other misconduct allegations.
Wow. Your "ally"
In a January 2021 ruling, an Ontario Court Justice criticized Toronto police officers for entering a suspected stash house and looking in a partly-opened suitcase, kitchen cupboard, washroom vanity, and an ottoman — before a warrant arrived.
Justice Mara Greene ultimately allowed the evidence against the accused, who was targeted as part of a drug investigation dubbed Project Sparta. But she didn't let the officers go uncriticized.
"The search conducted by the officers was outside the scope permitted by law," Greene wrote in her decision.
Had the name of the accused not appeared in a Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) memo, members of the public might never have known about Greene's comments.
That's because many of the memos the PPSC prepares describing allegations of police misconduct are heavily redacted before being released via access to information legislation.
CBC News obtained PPSC memos whose blacked-out pages suggest the government's censorship could conceal information already aired in an open courtroom.
In cases where the name of the accused was not redacted, it is possible to locate publicly-available court records and fill in the information the PPSC may have censored before the memo's release.
Without that, it's impossible to learn more about other misconduct allegations.
