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Crime and Justice

29 MPs have stated positions across 84 topics · 5 shifts

Crime and Justice

Dispute over Doug Ford's personal phone records transparency

Ontario bans municipal speed cameras, creates $210M fund

Ontario ministers apologize for release of 157 inmates

Crown withdraws charges in Lindsay home-defence case

Ontario legalizes pepper spray, permits DNA collection on arrest

Ontario bill to remove abusive councillors

Ontario mistakenly released 157 inmates between 2021 and 2025

Brantford Jail reopening plan

Brockville Correctional Complex expansion to add SLV units

Ontario bill gives solicitor general police board directives

Ontario calls on Ottawa to tighten bail laws

Ontario closing Toronto supervised consumption sites

Ontario cuts funding for Carepoint supervised consumption site

Ontario imposes lifetime driving bans for fatal dangerous driving

Ontario inquest into Soleiman Faqiri's death and recommended reforms

Ontario jail accidental inmate releases

Ontario jail capacity expansion plan

Ontario proposes upfront cash bail requirement

Ontario transit drug-use arrests

Ontario urges federal bail reform bill

Ontario World Cup gambling ad crackdown

Toronto police officers arrested in organized-crime probe

Andrew's Law following Whitchurch-Stouffville crash

Brampton keeps ASE automated speed cameras despite Ontario Premier Ford's ban

Brazen coordinated scotch theft at Kitchener LCBO

Calls for overdose task force after supervised consumption site closures

Canada youth social media age ban

Charges dropped in homeowner's self-defence case

Doug Ford announces mandatory prison sentences for armed intruders

Doug Ford urges municipalities to install speed bumps after Ottawa's automated speed enforcement ban

Ford praises Vaughan homeowner who shot intruder

Greater Toronto Area synagogue shootings March 2026

Hamilton doubles automated speed enforcement cameras from 4 to 8

Hamilton ends automated speed camera program

Hamilton parents protest Ontario speed-camera ban

Italy vigilante Fleximan attacks speed cameras

Kerzner pressures Toronto police over handling of Gaza protests

Kitchener encampment clearing near transit hub

Lindsay, Ontario homeowner charged after intruder

London ON defends school-zone speed cameras

Lydia's Law after Sloka trial push

Manitoba proposed under-16 social media ban

MPP Chris Scott charged with assault, remains in office

Ontario Bill 119 debate insult

Ontario caps ticket resale at face value

Ontario committee walkout over intimate partner violence report

Ontario jails on lockdown amid staff shortages

Ontario mayors call for compromise on automated speed enforcement ban

Ontario narrows FOI rules to exempt Premier Ford's records

Ontario proceeds-of-crime civil remedies grants

Ontario proposes public sex offender registry

Ontario removes speed cameras on King Edward Avenue

Ontario requires impaired drivers to pay child support

Ontario school cellphone and social media ban

Ontario sexual assault trial delays

Ontario truck driving school inspections

Ontario vows increased protection after Bondi Beach attack

Ontario vulnerable sector check reform

Ontario: Senecal accused of assaulting a 3-year-old child

Ontario's shelved jail reform law

OPP detachment planned for Ontario Place redevelopment under Ford government

Premier Ford praises Vaughan homeowner after shooting

Province to remove Toronto speed cameras in 2025

Quinte Detention Centre triple-bunk cells

RECO takeover of iPro Realty after theft of client funds

Richmond Hill requires bollards after vehicle crash at daycare

Rob Flack backs regulatory changes to speed landlord–tenant dispute resolution

Safer supply via for-profit virtual opioid prescribing

Senecal assaults toddler in Welland after release

Spree of speed camera vandalism in Toronto

St. Catharines CTS site closure

Supreme Court strikes 1-year mandatory minimum for child pornography offences

Thunder Bay Jail closure after Kevin Mamakwa inquest

Thunder Bay receives $1.3M provincial police funding

Toronto officers charged after Barcelona vacation arrest

Toronto police probe into tow-truck corruption

Toronto removes speed cameras after Ford government ban

Unescorted temporary absences granted to inmate Darren Scott Ray

Vandalism at London MPP Peggy Sattler's constituency office