Jonny Wakefield
@jonnywakefield.bsky.social
Edmonton Journal/Sun reporter on the justice beat, covering courts, crime, policing and corrections. American who moved to Canada, stray cat re-homer and (hopefully not totally insufferable) distance runner.
(None of these are guaranteed to become policy, they're only resolutions to be debated, but last year all of them passed and around a third were implemented in some way)
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
(None of these are guaranteed to become policy, they're only resolutions to be debated, but last year all of them passed and around a third were implemented in some way)
The use of the hypothetical is weird. Like on the one hand it sounds like something that could definitely happen, but it's also so rare that they had to make up a test case?
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The use of the hypothetical is weird. Like on the one hand it sounds like something that could definitely happen, but it's also so rare that they had to make up a test case?
I've been unable to find a single article about the Friesen decision, which I suspect is because it came out one month into COVID.
But this is what it says, and I have watched appeals in which it's led to child sex offenders getting longer sentences.
But this is what it says, and I have watched appeals in which it's led to child sex offenders getting longer sentences.
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I've been unable to find a single article about the Friesen decision, which I suspect is because it came out one month into COVID.
But this is what it says, and I have watched appeals in which it's led to child sex offenders getting longer sentences.
But this is what it says, and I have watched appeals in which it's led to child sex offenders getting longer sentences.
(Not saying things like this didn't happen, to be entirely clear, the image is just obviously not real)
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
(Not saying things like this didn't happen, to be entirely clear, the image is just obviously not real)