B. Green

The offender pleaded guilty to sexual interference for engaging in unprotected sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old victim.

The Crown sought a three-year penitentiary sentence, while the defence requested a conditional sentence or two years' incarceration, emphasizing the offender's lack of a criminal record, traumatic background, and harsh pretrial custody conditions.

The court emphasized the primary sentencing principles of denunciation and deterrence for sexual offences against children.

The offender was sentenced to three years' incarceration, mitigated by enhanced credit for harsh pretrial custody conditions, resulting in a net sentence of 21 months, followed by two years of probation and ancillary orders including a 20-year SOIRA order and a 5-year section 161 prohibition.

The accused pled guilty to possessing fentanyl and methamphetamine for the purpose of trafficking, and possessing a loaded prohibited firearm while bound by a weapons prohibition.

The court weighed the devastating impact of fentanyl and gun violence against the accused's guilty plea, lack of prior related record, and harsh pre-trial custody conditions.

The court imposed a total sentence of 11 years incarceration, reduced by 1 year and 9 months for pre-sentence custody and lockdown conditions, resulting in 9 years and 3 months going forward.

The accused, a young Black man with no prior record, pleaded guilty to possessing a loaded restricted firearm, altering its serial number, and operating a conveyance with a blood alcohol concentration over 80mg.

The court considered social context evidence regarding systemic racism and the accused's background, which mitigated his moral culpability for arming himself out of fear.

Acknowledging his strict compliance with house arrest bail conditions for over three years and his significant rehabilitative steps, the court imposed a 20-month conditional sentence followed by 16 months of probation, rather than the penitentiary term sought by the Crown.

The accused was charged with multiple offences after attending a self-storage facility wearing a mask and armed with a baseball bat, following a dispute over his eviction.

He struck the locked glass doors of the office with the bat while employees were inside, threatened a truck driver in the parking lot, and subsequently fled from police.

The court acquitted the accused of assaulting the office occupants, finding insufficient evidence of intent to threaten them rather than damage property, but convicted him of assaulting the truck driver, fleeing police, wearing a mask with intent to commit mischief, and possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose.