9:15 - 11:50 B Block Legal Studies
12:30 - 3:05 C Block Social and Environmental Sciences
B Block Legal Studies -Today we'll start looking at arrests and warrants in Canada. Our focus will be on the options police have if they believe a suspect has committed a crime, in this we'll talk about appearance notices & arrests (both warrant-less and warrant arrests)
Section 495 of the criminal code grants the police the power to arrest someone when:
Most warrants are only valid within the province where they have been obtained and many of
those warrants will have restrictions setting out a kilometer radius. It is also possible to obtain
an arrest warrant that applies across Canada, however this is much harder to do. We'll also talk about the duties of police officers. From the All About Law textbook:
This is relevant due to the 2014 lack of indictment by a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri in the shooting death of Michael Brown. Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was killed by a white police officer, Darren Wilson, on August 9th, 2014. Lawyers for Brown's family say the teen was trying to surrender when he was shot, while Wilson's supporters say he feared for his life and opened fire in self-defense. Brown was shot at least six times. Brown was suspected of having stolen cigars from a nearby convenience store shortly before the incident. Brown and a friend had been walking down the middle of the street when Wilson approached them. The grand jury could have indicted Wilson on charges of manslaughter or murder, however they concluded there was not enough evidence to charge him. After Michael Brown was killed by police in Ferguson, Mo., a Washington Post investigation found that the FBI undercounted fatal police shootings by more than half. This is because reporting by police departments is voluntary and many departments fail to do so.
We'll talk about the rights of police officers in connection to the Brown case and we'll work in partners on questions 3, 4, and 5 from page 149 along with questions 2, 3 & 4 from page 154 of the AAL text.
Section 495 of the criminal code grants the police the power to arrest someone when:
- they have reasonable grounds to believe the person has committed or is about to commit an indictable offence;
- they are committing a criminal offence;
- or when they have reasonable grounds to believe that there is a warrant for that person’s arrest.
Most warrants are only valid within the province where they have been obtained and many of
those warrants will have restrictions setting out a kilometer radius. It is also possible to obtain
an arrest warrant that applies across Canada, however this is much harder to do. We'll also talk about the duties of police officers. From the All About Law textbook:
Police officers often have to make quick decisions to save lives - their own as well as others. They have to act reasonably because they are held responsible for their conduct and behaviour when carrying out their duties. If they break the rules of police conduct, their evidence may be refused, which can result in an acquittal. In rare situations, the officers involved can be charged under criminal law or sued under civil law (Murphy, Elliott, Mete and Glass; 2009)
This is relevant due to the 2014 lack of indictment by a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri in the shooting death of Michael Brown. Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was killed by a white police officer, Darren Wilson, on August 9th, 2014. Lawyers for Brown's family say the teen was trying to surrender when he was shot, while Wilson's supporters say he feared for his life and opened fire in self-defense. Brown was shot at least six times. Brown was suspected of having stolen cigars from a nearby convenience store shortly before the incident. Brown and a friend had been walking down the middle of the street when Wilson approached them. The grand jury could have indicted Wilson on charges of manslaughter or murder, however they concluded there was not enough evidence to charge him. After Michael Brown was killed by police in Ferguson, Mo., a Washington Post investigation found that the FBI undercounted fatal police shootings by more than half. This is because reporting by police departments is voluntary and many departments fail to do so.
We'll talk about the rights of police officers in connection to the Brown case and we'll work in partners on questions 3, 4, and 5 from page 149 along with questions 2, 3 & 4 from page 154 of the AAL text.
C Block Social and Environmental Sciences - So you'll be in the learning commons / library today to do a couple of things. First, you'll have the opportunity to work on either Benton's Orca work or my work on whale watching in the Salish Sea that we gave you last week. After, Benton and I want you to choose two of the following topics to research for your Salish Sea poster project:
- Commercial Shipping
- Expansion (twinning) of the Trans Mountain Pipeline
- Aquaculture (both shellfish and finfish)
- Indigenous Territories, land claims and businesses
- Species at Risk (and legislation to protect them)
- Eco - Tourism (including whale watching, sea kayaking, and boating)
- Waste Management (Urban and Industrial)
- Fisheries (fin fish commercial, sport, and Indigenous)
- Population growth
By the year 2025, we can expect the population in the Salish Sea ecosystem to expand to over nine million people. Sustainability of the Salish Sea ecosystem is critical to our continued use and enjoyment of this place. Your poster is going to be a small "snapshot" on the Health of the Salish Sea to help show progress in sustainably managing the Salish Sea ecosystem and its valuable resources, where conditions are declining, and where course corrections are needed. So for each topic you choose, find out:
- What's happening?
- Why is it important?
- Why is it happening?
- What are we doing about it?
In essence...what are the problems and what are the potential solutions. We have the learning commons booked today, tomorrow and Wednesday for this and will have poster paper and a colour map of the Salish Sea for you to focus your information around. You already have a rough copy with information on it to start off with.
Websites to help (look through the blog posts for the last week as well):
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