Visitor: In the early morning hour of January 5 2018 while on an overtime call at the Point Aconi power plant here in Nova Scotia I flipped out at work and took a payloader tractor off site and drove it into my ex wife’s vacant home with the intention to knock it over in exchange…
The federal government of Canada announced that they are reducing the fee for a pardon application from $655 to $50 effective Jan 1, 2022. Here is the official announcement from the Canadian government: This is fantastic news for so many people who have a criminal record that is preventing them from gaining employment, volunteering and…
Every since cannabis became legal in Canada, the government has allowed a fast track and inexpensive way for people with pot offences from the past to obtain a pardon or record suspension. Removing a pot offence is important for a number of reasons including employment as most employers are doing criminal background check. If a…
www.pardons.org A recent article in the global news just came out about how the Americans may know that you have purchased legal medical pot and could deny you entry on those grounds. Since we do not know for sure what the Americans can see, its best that when you are traveling to not say anything…
www.pardons.org If you are trying to get employment or a promotion, often times a criminal background check is conducted on you and the employer will see that you have been in trouble with the police. Even if you were fingerprinted by the police and the charges were later withdrawn, peace bond or dismissed. Since there…
www.pardons.org In Canada, a DUI or Impaired Driving conviction is considered to be a criminal offence. Other similar driving convictions include Driving with Over 80 miligrams, Care and Control of a Motor Vehicle, Driving While Ability Impaired, Refusal to Provide a Breathe Sample are all considered criminal convictions. You will have been fingerprinted by the…
A Pardon (now called a Record Suspension) allows you to be free of the stigma involved with having your past mistakes hinder your chances at an ordinary life. With a Record Suspension in Ontario, your convictions will not be revealed on a criminal record check. A Record Suspension does not erase a criminal record but…
www.pardons.org It can be a very traumatic experience to receive a criminal record and in many cases it is a first offence. Something happened in an extreme situation whether it was a fight, or a stolen property or any other number of reasons, the police were called and next thing you know you are being…
Please click on the link below to respond to the government survey about possible changes to the pardons laws. In 2012 the Conservative Government made changes to the pardons laws that made it harder to get a pardon with higher fees and longer eligibility requirements. Summary offences were changed from a 3 year waiting period…
The average perception of a person’s legal reputation or record is usually pretty simple. Most people think that they only have to worry about a problem with their record if they are charged, tried and convicted of a criminal act. It’s true that for anyone with an actual criminal conviction, this does mean that there…
www.pardons.org If you have been denied entry to the USA due to having an old criminal record or for overstaying your welcome in the USA then you will need a US Entry Waiver (I-194, I-192) to return to the USA. You may have traveled to the USA in the past with a criminal record and…
Running a criminal record check on someone should not be automatically construed as an act of mistrust or paranoia. There are plenty of good reasons why a criminal record check may be a good idea, and in some cases, it may even be a legal requirement, rather than a declaration of opinion that says “I…
For some, the province of Alberta has been easy to perceive as simply the “Texas of Canada,” thanks to cowboy culture being alive and well combined with the abundance of natural resources—especially oil—that turned the region from merely an agricultural economy to an industrial powerhouse. But even in these years when there are both political…
www.pardons.org When you are charged with a criminal offence and you go to court, if its your first offence, the outcome in court can be that the criminal charge is stayed, peace bond, diversion, withdrawn, dismissed, or discharged. This results in a non-conviction. Many people believe that if their criminal charge was completed as a…
pardons.org Many American citizens are unaware that if they have a criminal record in the US they can be denied entry at the Canadian border. If you are denied entry at the Canadian border then you will need to apply for a waiver also know as a deemed rehabilitation to return to Canada to visit.…
