Opinions and Thoughts of LightHouse Dann Verner - Just as he is!

  WE HAVE TO DEMAND THAT OUR GOVERNMENT REWRITES THE CURRENT YOUTH  CRIMINAL  JUSTICE  ACT AND, DEFINITIVELY, OUR BAIL SYSTEM! First let me correct this blog for calling it the “ Young Offender Act “. (Blame the mis-title on my being 68 years old and used to referring to the YCJA by it’s predecessor’s moniker of the “YOA”, “Young Offenders Act”.) In 1984 the YOA replaced the ancient “ Juvenile Delinquent Act ” ( circa 1908)  and it ,  the  Young   Offenders Act , was   rewritten in 2003 to become the present  “Youth Criminal Justice Act”. Which is now 22 years old. (Think how much the world has changed in the past quarter of a century.) That said, back to the topic at hand. The world, society, has changed, greatly, in those 22 years. Since then the Internet and modern technology have become an everyday fact of modern life. With it came a complete change to the very way we live everyday life. Even Ontario’s Premier Ford agrees with me tha...

  It's time our government rewrites the current Young Offenders Act and, definitively, our bail system! If We Want To Get The Guns Off The Streets Then Let's Get The Criminals Off Our Streets!

  “ Believe it or not, but I was once, maybe twice, a gangster.” Those who know me, or those who have read the five volumes of my autobiography, know well that for the majority of my life I was a gangster. That said, you would be correct in thinking that I am an authority on the topic of crime and, unfortunately, punishment. Society has changed. Modern society and the onset of social media’s ability to influence our youth in both ‘good’ and ‘bad’  ways has also matured the common crook. Maturity is a learned process. Knowledge is absorbed through life and the experiences that coincide with it. Logically we must now consider at what age do our youth transverse from childhood to young adults. By looking at the average age   of serious crimes young offenders   are now committing, we can easily see that they are not stealing liquor from their parents or swiping candy from the neighborhood corner stores. They are stealing high end automobiles, committing violent home inva...