The National Pardon Centre plans to lobby the government in the hope of amending some of the proposed legislative changes to the Criminal Records Act; Bill C-23. Since we are fairly certain this bill will pass in one form or another we are going to try and save as much of the existing pardon program as we can. In […]
I spend each work day speaking to people across Canada who have a criminal record and who can benefit from a Canadian pardon. So I am in a unique position to comment on the recent proposal to amend the current system of pardons. The majority of people seeking pardons are for summary offences. Upwards of […]
Often I get calls from people who think that a pardon application is just a matter of filling in a few forms and sending them off to the Parole Board for review. But this is not the case. A pardon application is a lot more involved than that. And here is the proof. Below is the […]
Every day I come across criminal records for minor drug offences and every time I see one I can’t help but think about what a waste of resources and common sense it must have been to prosecute the offender. That being said I want to make it perfectly clear that I do not condone drug […]
If you haven’t heard already the US Department of Homeland Security is adding yet another headache to Canadian travelers, even those who have no intention of stopping on US soil. The new Secure Flight regulations mean that any flight going over US soil will be subject to homeland security checks. And while they are not […]
For some reason the BBB does not allow a company to have one accreditation for multiple locations. Instead we need individual accreditations that apply specifically to each office location, even though it is one company. This is fine it just means that I have to have another blog entry linking to the specific BBB page. […]
Sometimes these little community databases are a great source of advertising for us. You wouldn’t think so but this page ranks pretty high in Google and we have had more than a few clients call and say they found our information here. So in the interest of acknowledging that local community resources play a big […]
For some reason the BBB does not allow a company to have one accreditation for multiple locations. Instead we need individual accreditations that apply specifically to each office location, even though it is one company. This is fine it just means that I have to have another blog entry linking to the specific BBB page. […]
If you have been following this blog you might be aware that I held a little competition recently written in a post called Letter Blogging: Time Frames for a Pardon. I honestly didn’t expect that the competition would be won so soon mostly because I didn’t think that the blog was read as much as it […]
One of my competitors has a blog that I watch from time to time. And I find it amusing because every blog entry reads like this: “Here is a letter from a happy client who loves us…” And then the entry continues with a letter congratulating the company on its excellence. It is not for […]
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