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After 1 year, 35 posts, and over 40,000 views, my blog has moved from WordPress.com to a self-hosted site. Up until now, the blog was actually hosted at simonborys.wordpress.com, with the address SimonBorys.ca linking to that, meaning you could have accessed it through either address. Going forward, the blog will only be available here at [...]
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Remedies for Disturbances in the School and Classroom
In my old patrol zone I had several schools, both elementary and secondary. On more than one occasion I attended one of the schools to take a report from a teacher or principal after an irate parent had come into the school and caused a scene. Oftentimes, situations like this could be resolved by simply [...]
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Canada Record Suspensions: Bill C-23 Updates to the Pardon System
Guest Post by Julie Demers Pardons.ca I’m sure you’ve heard about Bill C-23, the recently proposed legislation dealing with pardon reform in Canada. Now, whether or not you got the nitty gritty details is a different story altogether. The purpose of this article is to make this proposed legislation as understandable as possible for the [...]
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New Roadside Alcohol Suspensions: Bill 203 Explained
On May 1, 2009, amendments to the Highway Traffic Act (Sections 41-48) came into effect, as did three new Ontario Regulations (403/08, 405/08, and 407/08), as part of Bill 203, the Safer Roads for Safer Ontario Act. Although we have just passed the one year anniversary of the legislation coming into force, there still seems [...]
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Motor Vehicle Lighting Laws
I just had my first article published on OntarioTicket.com, a great website which provides lots of information on traffic tickets and the Provincial Offence court process. My article, entitled Motor vehicle Lighting Laws in Ontario, gives a full rundown of all required, restricted, and prohibited lights for motor vehicles in Ontario. If you drive a [...]
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Simon Borys
Simon Borys is a former police officer, a law student at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and an aspiring criminal lawyer.
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