Tag Archives: Justice

EDMONTON - A travelling panel collecting public feedback on Alberta's grievances with Ottawa struggled to keep an emotionally-charged crowd on topic at its third summer town hall on Thursday night. Pr...

EDMONTON - A judicial review of a proposed Alberta separation referendum question will go ahead, after an application to quash the proceeding and have the question approved without scrutiny was denied...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has begun its "test phase" search of a Winnipeg landfill for the remains of a victim of a convicted serial killer. Premier Wab Kinew said Wednesday the preliminary s...

VANCOUVER - A proposed class-action lawsuit filed in Federal Court says the Canadian government wrongfully denies people status under the country's Indian Act if their ancestors "voluntarily" gave up ...

MONTREAL - A Montreal man charged with assaulting a Jewish father at a park last week will be sent to a psychiatric hospital for a 30-day evaluation to determine criminal responsibility. Sergio Yanes ...

OTTAWA - Former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler has joined thousands of Jews calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war and starvation in Gaza. The longtime human rights...

The stretch of semi-rural land on No. 6 Road in Richmond, B.C., is home to blueberry farms, multimillion-dollar mansions and an 18-hole golf course. Those properties are all now encompassed by a landm...

MONTREAL - The RCMP say a fourth person has been charged in an alleged human smuggling operation after 44 people were found in "horrific" conditions inside a cube truck earlier this month in Quebec ne...

VICTORIA - The head of the Canada's police chiefs association says they are guided by "outdated and inadequate" laws that were never designed to take on the current criminal landscape that no longer r...

TORONTO - Ontario's climate plan is set to be put to the constitutional test again in December. A lawyer for a group of young climate activists says their historic constitutional challenge is set to b...