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CTV News: More than 80% of inmates in Ontario jails last year were legally innocent, awaiting trial: data

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/vast-majority-of-people-in-ontario-jails-last-year-had-not-been-found-guilty-of-an-offence-data-1.6747988

CBC News: Ottawa’s use of Emergencies Act against convoy protests was unreasonable, violated Charter, court rules

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-federal-court-1.7091891

The Guardian: Canada province uses constitutional override to advance pronoun legislation

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/16/canada-school-saskatchewan-gender-pronoun-minor-law

CBC: Arctic Bay residents raise concerns after RCMP search mail

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/arctic-bay-residents-raise-concerns-over-rcmp-search-mail-1.6934167

Newstalk 1010: Ontario police groups, legal advocates call for different approaches to proposed bail reform

https://www.iheartradio.ca/newstalk-1010/news/ontario-police-groups-legal-advocates-call-for-different-approaches-to-proposed-bail-reform-1.20071501?mode=Article

The Hill Times: National Police Federation, police chiefs association favour bail reform bill, but advocacy groups wary of bail denial as ‘red herring’

https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2023/07/24/national-police-federation-police-chief-association-favour-bail-reform-legislation-but-advocacy-groups-wary-of-bail-denial-as-red-herring/393255/

CBC: Civil liberties group concerned about ‘domino effect’ of LGBTQ-protection policy review

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-lgbtq-policy-rights-protections-1.6868375

Toronto.com: Fix Canada’s ‘broken’ bail system by giving more people bail, and more supports, some Toronto experts say

https://www.toronto.com/news/fix-canadas-broken-bail-system-by-giving-more-people-bail-and-more-supports-some-toronto/article_5eceefd9-1aaf-503f-a4c9-75935484bdb4.html

The Maple: Tightened Bail Restrictions Unlikely To Curb Violent Crime, Experts Warn

https://www.readthemaple.com/tightened-bail-restrictions-unlikely-to-curb-violent-crime-experts-warn/

The Globe and Mail: The flip side of bail reform in Canada

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-the-flip-side-of-bail-reform-in-canada/

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