Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
Tag Archives: Justice
Ottawa, McGill seek to dismiss brainwashing experiment lawsuit
MONTREAL - Family members of patients allegedly brainwashed decades ago at a Montreal psychiatric hospital are afraid they're running out of time to get compensation because the federal government and...
Sep 17, 2024
MPs to discuss deaths of First Nations people by police in emergency debate
OTTAWA - Members of Parliament will hold an emergency debate in the House of Commons Monday evening on a string of recent deaths of First Nations people during interactions with Canadian police forces...
Sep 16, 2024
B.C. mayors seek 'immediate action' from governments on mental health crisis
VANCOUVER - Mayors, First Nations leaders, and law enforcement officials are pleading with the federal and provincial governments to take "immediate action" to address what they call dual "crises" of ...
Sep 16, 2024
Backbencher out of Manitoba NDP caucus over Nygard link, accuses premier of bullying
WINNIPEG - Manitoba's governing New Democrats ousted backbencher and defence lawyer Mark Wasyliw from caucus Monday, and Wasyliw fired back by accusing Premier Wab Kinew of being a micromanaging, toxi...
Sep 16, 2024
Quebec court greenlights temporary foreign worker class action on closed permits
MONTREAL - Quebec's Superior Court has authorized a class-action lawsuit involving temporary foreign workers who are suing the federal government over work permits that bind them to an employer. The l...
Sep 16, 2024
Next phase of federal foreign interference inquiry to begin today
OTTAWA - The latest phase of a federal inquiry into foreign interference is set to kick off today with remarks from commissioner Marie-Jose Hogue. Several weeks of public hearings will focus on the ca...
Sep 16, 2024
Former military leader Haydn Edmundson found not guilty of sexual assault
OTTAWA - Former vice-admiral Haydn Edmundson has been found not guilty of sexual assault and committing an indecent act in a case that dates back to 1991. Edmundson was head of the military's personne...
Sep 16, 2024
Eby pledges involuntary care for severe addictions in B.C., ahead of October election
VANCOUVER - British Columbia will be opening secure facilities to provide involuntary care under the Mental Health Act for those with severe addictions who are mentally ill and have sustained a brain ...
Sep 15, 2024
B.C. victim's family furious at no-fault insurance regime in motor-vehicle death case
WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. - Family members say Annie Kong wanted nothing more than to gather with all her extended family under one roof at her West Vancouver home for Christmas 2022. "She was talking abou...
Sep 15, 2024
B.C. accepts change for psychiatric care after alleged attack by mentally ill man
VANCOUVER - A report into a triple stabbing at a festival in Vancouver's Chinatown last year says the man accused of the crimes had been let out of a psychiatric care facility 99 times in the year pri...
Sep 13, 2024
OPINION
Sarah Mills: A lifetime smoking ban in the UK may be a step too far
Sarah Mills says there are great health-care costs associated with smoking, but those costs are also associated with obe...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 23
8:30 - Construction for the AI data centre in the RM of Sherwood is set to begin this spring, but many residents in the ...