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
Groups challenge decision allowing judge involved in U of T controversy to keep job
OTTAWA - Complainants are challenging a review body decision that allowed a federal judge to keep his job after he was accused of bias against Palestinians over his views on a proposed university appo...
Jun 24, 2021
Facial recognition use by Liberals raises issues, says B.C.'s privacy commissioner
VICTORIA - The use of facial recognition technology by the Liberal Party of Canada as part of its process to pick candidates in the next federal election could result in a privacy investigation in Bri...
Jun 24, 2021
Yukon judge reserves decision in election petition until at least next month
WHITEHORSE - A judge in the Supreme Court of Yukon has reserved her decision over the validity of a ballot cast in the territory's last election by a jailed voter in the riding where the former health...
Jun 24, 2021
Supreme Court to hear dispute over fate of undeveloped Nova Scotia land
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will look at whether a municipal move to prevent development of a parcel of land northwest of Halifax - and encourage its use as a park - might have amounted to ex...
Jun 24, 2021
Report says fatal Flight 752 crash not planned, but places blame squarely on Iran
OTTAWA - Iran did not plan last year's deadly downing of a passenger jet in advance, but a series of failures by the regime's civil and military authorities set the stage for the shoot-down of PS752 m...
Jun 24, 2021
Lionel Desmond inquiry: Veterans Affairs review cites delays, calls for changes
HALIFAX - An internal review of how Veterans Affairs handled the tragic case of a former soldier who killed his family and himself in 2017 says changes must be made to prevent other veterans from expe...
Jun 24, 2021
Liberals introduce bill to combat online hate speech as Commons adjourns for summer
OTTAWA - The Liberal government waited until the House of Commons was about to adjourn for three months to introduce a bill aimed at protecting Canadians from online hate speech. The eleventh-hour mov...
Jun 23, 2021
Lawyers argue validity of man's vote from jail that tipped balance in Yukon election
WHITEHORSE - Lawyers are squaring off this week over the validity of a ballot cast in Yukon's last election by an incarcerated voter in a riding where the Liberal incumbent lost her seat in a tie vote...
Jun 23, 2021
Seventeen Canadians per day died from opioids in 2020: Public Health Agency of Canada
OTTAWA - Canada's public health agency says the COVID-19 pandemic drove an increasingly deadly overdose crisis last year that continues to take lives and corrode communities. Grim new numbers from the...
Jun 23, 2021
Sajjan military assistant had inappropriate relationship while with Vancouver police
OTTAWA - An army reservist who was ordered suspended from the Vancouver Police Department for having an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate has been working as a military assistant to Defenc...
Jun 23, 2021
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 ...