André Chamberlain

Sentencing for transmitting and possessing child pornography, making child pornography, and multiple sexual assaults of prepubescent children.

The court applied the modern sentencing framework for child sexual offences, emphasizing the inherent wrongfulness of sexual violence against children, the grave harm caused by child pornography possession and creation, and the primacy of denunciation and deterrence.

Aggravating factors included the scale and depravity of the collection, repeated assaults on multiple very young victims, grooming, filming the assaults, and abuse committed in a church daycare and in a child's bedroom.

The court imposed a 7.5-year global sentence subject to substantial pre-sentence and harsh-custody credit, leaving 5 years to serve, together with lifetime SOIRA and other ancillary orders.

This criminal trial addressed charges of impaired operation of a motor vehicle and operating a motor vehicle with over 80 mg of alcohol.

The defendant was involved in an accident after driving the wrong way on a one-way street.

The court found insufficient evidence to prove impaired operation beyond a reasonable doubt, noting the lack of clear indicia of impairment beyond the driving error itself.

Regarding the defendant's Charter Section 10(b) right to counsel, the court found no breach, determining that the defendant's waiver of her right to counsel at the police station was clear and unequivocal, even after being reminded of her initial assertion of the right.

Consequently, the defendant was acquitted of impaired operation but convicted of operating a motor vehicle with more than 80 mg of alcohol.