B.C. Supreme Court Rules Indigenous Fishermen Didn’t Get a Fair Trial
- September 15, 2025
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
The prawn fishery is highly regulated throughout British Columbia to ensure sustainability, conservation and protection. Licences are required for commercial and recreational prawn fishing. Communal fishing licences may also be issued to First Nations as defined in the regulations. That…
Drug Traffickers Charged in Fentanyl Mortality Cases
- August 31, 2025
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
The proliferation of manslaughter charges against drug traffickers has revealed the extent to which overdose mortality has been mobilized by law enforcement, prosecutors and the judiciary in the pursuit of these charges. The opioid crisis has also been used to…
Strip Searches and the Right to Counsel
- August 15, 2025
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
What is the relationship between the right to counsel and the police power to strip search incidental to arrest? That question was recently answered by the Ontario Court of Appeal in the case of an Etobicoke man convicted of importing…
Generative AI Is Accelerating Social Engineering
- July 31, 2025
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
Social engineering relies on trickery and persuasion rather than technologically skillful cyber attacks. Threat actors who use social engineering tactics don’t exploit systems. They exploit trust. They hack people. Deploying tactics of psychological manipulation targeting human vulnerability threat actors continue…
Cybercrime Syndicate Indicted in U.S. Health Care Fraud Scheme
- July 15, 2025
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
The playbook was simple. Purchase legitimate medical supply companies enrolled in Medicare and use them as shells to submit a flood of bogus claims for durable medical equipment. The scheme didn’t need phony patients. The stolen identities of a million…