Bail Reform
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Fifty Rifles in a Photograph on a Phone, and a Signal Thread Talking Prices: the Crown Finally Explains in a Kelowna Bail Hearing Why Trail RCMP Shut Highway 3B for a Day in June 2025, and It Started With a Man Running Through Snow (September 12, 2026)
Reported Saturday, September 12, 2026 at 4:00 a.m. PT by Nicholas Johansen of Castanet, Story 631005. At a September 9 bail hearing in Kelowna Provincial Court, Crown prosecutor David Peltier disclosed for the first time that the June 26, 2025 Trail and Castlegar RCMP raid on a Highway 3B property west of Warfield, B.C., grew…
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The Crown Asked for the Bracelet to Come Off Him and Go Back on the Cell Door: A Superior Court Judge Dismisses the Bail Review and Zara Jabbi Stays on House Arrest in the U.S. Consulate Shooting (August 27, 2026)
Reported Thursday, August 27, 2026 by Global News at 11:58 a.m. An Ontario Superior Court judge dismissed the Crown’s bail review Thursday morning, and Zara Jabbi, 19, remains at liberty on house arrest with GPS monitoring. This is a follow-up to the Gangland Files briefing of August 25, which covered the Crown’s application when it…
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Cash on the Table Within Two Business Days: Ontario’s Bail Deposit Regime Starts Monday, and Two Legal Organizations Are Already Heading to Court (August 16, 2026)
Ontario’s new bail security rules take effect Monday, August 17. Where a release order carries a pledged amount, the accused must now deposit that full amount in cash within two business days of release, rather than merely promising to pay it. Sureties must provide current identification, collection powers expand to garnishment, liens and seizure of…