Tuesday, December 15. 2020

Today's schedule is: 

9:15 - 11:50 C Block Social and Environmental Sciences 

12:30 - 3:05 B Block Legal Studies 

C Block Social and Environmental Sciences - Today we are back in the Library / Learning Commons for you to work on your Salish Sea poster project. Remember you need to choose two of the following

1. Commercial Shipping
2. Expansion (twinning) of the Trans Mountain Pipeline
3. Aquaculture (both shellfish and finfish)
4. Indigenous Territories, land claims and businesses
5. Species at Risk (and legislation to protect them)
6. Eco - Tourism (including whale watching, sea kayaking, and boating)
7. Waste Management (Urban and Industrial)
8. Fisheries (fin fish commercial, sport, and Indigenous)
9. 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 and tomorrow  for this and will have poster paper and a colour map of the Salish Sea for you to focus your information around (you'll get this tomorrow in class). You already have a rough copy with information on it to start off with. 

B Block Legal Studies - We'll look at what a lawful search (not unreasonable) is and find out what search warrants are, how they are obtained and what your rights are connected to searches. To help I'll have you work in partners on the R. v. Clayton (2007) case on page 156 and on the R. v. Shankar (2007) case on page 159 in the All About Law text (that's the talky part of class, right?) 

After being arrested, a person may be released on the spot. This may be when police officers believe that the accused presents no further danger and will appear on the trial date. Others are taken to the police station, where the police record the criminal charges and take fingerprints and photographs. Some of these people will also be released, usually if they are charged with less serious offences. If the police believe that an accused may commit further offences, is a threat to the victim or witness, will interfere with the investigation, or will not appear in court, she or he may be detained until a bail hearing takes place. Just so you know...this is not legal in Canada

So, we'll talk about bail and judicial release procedures