Tips for Online Dating - Ontario Specific
It is a hard world that we live in to meet someone new and trust them. Online dating is the easiest place to meet someone, but also the scariest. As Dr. House says "It's a basic truth of the human condition, that everybody lies. The only variable is about what."
I have recently learned about a government of Ontario website called ONe-Key. This resource is a place to access a multitude of services in Ontario, including Justice Services Online.
What is Justice Services Online you ask. Well, it is a place for people to go and check information about their upcoming court dates. It is a fully searchable system for upcoming court dates. This means that you can't search closed cases here. With the information I had on July 3, 2019 (after Police gave me the information) I know now that if I had done a search on this site, I would have had that information in March 2019,and saved myself a lot of headaches.
Setting up an account is easy, and once you do, you want the Justice Services Online section.
From there you scroll down to court case search. You can search Civil court (which looks like even closed cases appear, so you will be able to find out if your prospective date defaulted on let's say a bank loan several years ago) or you can search criminal court. Again, only ongoing cases are listed under Criminal court. I have been able to find cases using only a last name, and first initial.
Even if there is a publication ban, there defendant's full name appears, and their next court date. There is no information about what the charges are, so it is important to use discretion. It's limited information, but it's more information than you had before.
Not finding someone's name doesn't mean that they aren't a criminal.. It just means that they aren't currently in a case. For example, I know that Asshole is on probation right now, but none of that comes up.

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