Traffic Tickets

Earning a first licence is a milestone, but in Ontario it comes with an asterisk. Drivers in the Graduated Licensing System operate under conditions that fully licensed drivers never think about, and the penalty framework for breaking those conditions is deliberately harsh. A mistake that costs an experienced driver a fine can cost a novice… Read More

The buses are rolling, the crossing guards are out, and the streets around every school in Ontario are once again full of small pedestrians who do not always look both ways. September changes the driving landscape overnight, and it also changes the enforcement landscape. Police services across the province concentrate on school zones when classes… Read More

The text notification chimes, the light is red, and the phone is right there in the cupholder. One glance. That is all it takes for an Ontario driver to commit one of the most heavily penalized traffic offences in the province, and most drivers have no idea how steep the price actually is until the… Read More

The flash in your rearview mirror. The envelope in your mailbox two weeks later. A red light camera ticket in Ontario can catch any driver off guard, and the instinct for most people is to simply pay the fine and move on. Before doing that, it is worth understanding exactly what this ticket means, what… Read More

Two drivers. Two incidents. Two very different legal outcomes. Careless driving and dangerous driving are terms that get used interchangeably in everyday conversation, but under Ontario law they are entirely separate charges that carry significantly different consequences. One is a provincial offence. The other is a criminal one. Knowing which charge you are facing, and… Read More