From the Desk of Steve Sullivan, CEO MADD Canada

Among MADD Canada’s top priorities are Mandatory Alcohol Screening (MAS) and Immediate Roadside Prohibition (IRP)/Immediate Roadside Sanctions (IRS). There is good news on both fronts – more police services are using MAS at virtually every traffic stop, and the Government [...]

Recently, a steep sentence given to an impaired driver who killed four people was upheld by the Ontario Court of Appeal and it was celebrated in some quarters as recognition of how serious a crime impaired driving is. But at [...]

When most victims and survivors of crime think about the “legal system,” they think of the criminal justice system. The police investigate and lay charges. A Crown Prosecutor prosecutes the case. A Judge hands down a sentence if the accused [...]

Last month, MADD Canada released the results of our latest polling in which we wanted to understand what Canadians thought about some of our priority policy initiatives. It is safe to say we are on the right track! Interestingly [...]

In 1993, a young man named Dennis Fichtenberg was murdered in Prince George, BC. His killer was a man named Paul Butler. The case did not garner a lot of media attention at the time, possibly because it was in [...]

The 2025 Federal Budget was presented on November 4, and it is almost 500 pages. Honestly, I have not read all of it…or even most of it. It is a complicated document, as one would expect, with billions of dollars [...]