Latest posts by Céline Dostaler (see all)
- Youths can legally use a firearm provided an adult is supervising - April 23, 2024
- What is the offence of sharing intimate pictures online? - April 10, 2024
- Truckers’ protest and cybercrimes highlighted the year in criminal law - January 5, 2023
During the lockdown brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, identity theft and fraud surged. According to information from Statistics Canada, in 2016 there were 260 cases identified as identity theft. That number almost tripled to 725 by 2020. The related crime of identity fraud climbed even more, from 828 in 2016 to 4.508 in 2020. To read more, click here.