Category Archives: Justice
Canadian suspected of sending ricin to White House charged with threatening Trump
A Quebec woman suspected of mailing envelopes containing the poison ricin to the White House appeared in court Tuesday on a charge of threats against the president of the United States. Pascale Ferrier, who wore a tan jail jumpsuit, had her hands
Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the Liberal government’s carbon tax
OTTAWA — Supreme Court justices pushed lawyers from Saskatchewan and Ontario hard Tuesday, demanding to know how Canada can help stop climate change if any single province chooses not to help. But several of the justices also raised concerns that the
Group wants Parliament, courts to hold social media to same standard as publishers
TORONTO — Friends of Canadian Broadcasting is calling on Parliament to restrain social media platforms from distributing harmful or hateful content by applying the same laws that publishers and broadcasters already face. The lobby group's executive dir...
Toronto city councillor Jim Karygiannis loses court bid to keep seat
OTTAWA — Jim Karygiannis is no longer a member of Toronto City Council after the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear his bid to hang on to the position. Karygiannis, a former Liberal member of Parliament, won re-election to city
RCMP raid Montreal-area home tied to ricin-laced envelopes sent to White House, Texas
ST-HUBERT, Que. — RCMP raided a residence on Montreal's south shore Monday in connection with envelopes containing the poison ricin that were sent to the White House and to various locations in Texas. The home is tied to a woman arr...
Mourners pay tribute outside U.S. Supreme Court as battle brews over RBG’s successor
WASHINGTON, Wash. — A solemn procession of ordinary Americans, many of them mothers with daughters in tow, left flowers, cards and tributes scrawled in chalk Monday as they publicly mourned the death of U.S. Supreme Court icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg. ...
Federal Court hears certification arguments this week in MMIW lawsuit
REGINA — A mother who alleges the federal government and RCMP took a a "negligent" and "lackadaisical" approach to investigating missing and murdered Indigenous women will attend a hearing this week that will determine if her lawsuit moves fo...
B.C. or Ontario? Residential school survivors fight move of court battle
TORONTO — A bitterly fought legal battle between survivors of a brutal residential school and the federal government is slated for an appeal hearing this week over whether the case should now be moved to British Columbia from Ontario. The underlying
Letter containing ricin sent to White House may have come from Canada: RCMP
OTTAWA — Canadian law enforcement has been called in to help the FBI investigate after American authorities found that an envelope addressed to the White House contained the poison ricin. "Initial information from the investigation suggests that the le...
B.C. migrant, undocumented workers rally for permanent residency program
VANCOUVER — Migrant workers and advocates called for a "just recovery" from the COVID-19 pandemic during a digital rally on Saturday. The pandemic has shown how heavily Canada relies on migrant and undocumented workers to perform essential jobs, s...
