By: Martha Currie and Julia Simioni Since the announced July 2018 decriminalization of marijuana has sparked interest in Canada’s Criminal Code, in particular, outdated laws have been brought up in debates about updating the Criminal Code. A number of laws are considered “archaic” such as section 365 in the code, which states that citizens pretending to…
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QUIZ: Can you guess if these outdated Canadian laws are real?
By: Katie Li In March, the federal government moved to clean up unnecessary and archaic laws from the Criminal Code. These laws remain written in the code, despite regulating outdated behavior, or having already been deemed unconstitutional by the courts. Since its creation in 1892, the Canadian Criminal Code has only been revised twice in…
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