{"id":32966,"date":"2025-11-17T13:44:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/?post_type=runnymede-events&#038;p=32966"},"modified":"2025-11-17T13:44:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:44:53","slug":"bright-lines-or-blurred-standards-police-powers-and-the-charter","status":"publish","type":"runnymede-events","link":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/runnymede-events\/bright-lines-or-blurred-standards-police-powers-and-the-charter\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Lines or Blurred Standards? Police Powers and the Charter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please join the Runnymede Society\u2019s University of Alberta Chapter for an engaging discussion on police powers and the Charter with Prof. Steven Penney (Alberta) on Wednesday, November 26th!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Police powers have increasingly become the domain of judges rather than legislators, but has judicial discretion gone too far? Prof. Penney will explore how the Supreme Court of Canada\u2019s reliance on open-ended standards, like \u201ctotality of the circumstances,\u201d might undermine legal clarity, predictability, and fairness. He argues instead for a rules-based approach that provides officers with clear guidance, litigants with reliable expectations, and courts with a consistent framework.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Register by scanning the QR code or clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/campus.hellorubric.com\/?eid=45231\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":32967,"template":"","event_organizers":[130],"event_venues":[263],"library-theme":[262],"class_list":["post-32966","runnymede-events","type-runnymede-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_organizers-runnymede-society","event_venues-university-of-alberta-faculty-of-law-room-lc-113","library-theme-police-powers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/runnymede-events\/32966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/runnymede-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/runnymede-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_organizers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_organizers?post=32966"},{"taxonomy":"event_venues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_venues?post=32966"},{"taxonomy":"library-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/library-theme?post=32966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}