Category Archives: Justice
2012 Quebec election-night shooting ‘unpredictable,’ police witnesses testify
MONTREAL — The provincial police officer charged with the personal security of then-premier-designate Pauline Marois during Quebec's 2012 fatal election shooting testified on Monday that he is satisfied with his team's work that day. Frédéric Desgagné...
Mass shooting inquiry: N.S. firefighters take aim at RCMP’s handling of their ordeal
HALIFAX — Convinced there was a killer outside the firehall where he worked, Nova Scotia firefighter Darrell Currie recalled Monday how he was overcome by a deep sense of dread as he hid behind a stack of metal chairs with
Dry cells to be banned for women prisoners suspected of carrying contraband in bodies
OTTAWA — The federal government announced it would ban a controversial form of confinement for inmates suspected of carrying contraband in their vaginas, but critics say the government should reconsider the practice for everyone. Dry cells are essentia...
Canadian Civil Liberties Association challenging Nova Scotia COVID-19 protest ban
HALIFAX — Last spring's government-ordered ban against COVID-19 protests in Nova Scotia went too far, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association argued Monday before the province's Court of Appeal. The rights group was challenging a court order granted t...
Mistaken for mass killer, man recalls shot ‘like a sonic boom’ as RCMP fired at him
HALIFAX — David Westlake is an unbelievably lucky man who still wonders what saved him when two Mounties mistook him for a killer and opened fire. On the morning of April 19, 2020, the emergency management coordinator was at the firehall
Canada sanctions Russian defence sector as Joly pushes for Moscow’s ouster from G20
OTTAWA — Canada's foreign minister told Indonesian leaders on Monday that Vladimir Putin and his foreign minister do not belong at the G20 summit in the southeast Asian country later this year. But Mélanie Joly said Canada committed to helping Indonesi...
Fixer says former Alberta justice minister hired him to get reporter’s phone logs
A self-described political fixer says a former Alberta justice minister hired him to obtain a reporter's phone logs. David Wallace says he was hired by Jonathan Denis to get the phone records of Alanna Smith, a former Calgary Herald reporter now
Court rejects bid to ban imports from China’s Xinjiang region over labour concerns
OTTAWA — Activists concerned about forced labour have lost a court bid for a general ban on the Canadian importation of all goods from the Xinjiang region of China. The Federal Court has rejected their application to overturn a Canada Border
As Pope’s apology echoes, U.S. Indigenous boarding-school probe follows Canada’s lead
WASHINGTON — On the heels of a historic moment of healing for Indigenous Peoples in Canada, their counterparts in the United States are anxiously anticipating a federal report on residential schools — commissioned by one of their own — that's
Families say ‘forced’ care won’t work for youth while others say it could save lives
Families and advocates of youth addicted to illicit drugs are divided over whether minors should be forced into so-called secure care to stabilize them before longer-term voluntary treatment could be provided. Laws vary across Canada for what amounts t...