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A youth has been arrested and another has been injured in a stabbing during a fight at a Toronto mall. Toronto police said they were called to Sherway Gardens around 8:30 p.m. on Friday evening. Two groups were reportedly fighting in the mall’s food court. Police said one person was stabbed …
Read More »Federal Court rules 2022 elver quota transfer to First Nations fair and reasonable – Halifax
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted September 1, 2023 9:39 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Federal Court has rejected an attempt to overturn Ottawa’s decision in 2022 to reallocate part of the lucrative elver fishery quota to First Nations. In a written decision, Justice Elizabeth …
Read More »Conviction for murder 10-year-old Toronto girl in 1989 sent back to court of appeal – Toronto
Innocence Canada says Tim Rees, a man convicted of the murder of a 10-year-old Toronto girl more than three decades ago, will have his case reviewed by Ontario’s highest court. On March 16, 1989, Darla Thurott was strangled to death in her bed at her Etobicoke home. She was found …
Read More »Highest court refuses to hear appeal from B.C. churches opposed to COVID-19 ruling
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 10, 2023 11:00 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal from three British Columbia churches that argued their constitutional rights were violated when provincial restrictions banned indoor religious services at …
Read More »Protesters burn injunction, landfill blockade remains despite court order – Winnipeg
Tensions continue to rise over demonstrations at a Winnipeg landfill, as a judge ruled Friday afternoon to grant a temporary injunction removing a blockade. After a court injunction was issued for the blockade to be removed by 6 p.m. Friday, it still remained late into the night. Protesters even burned …
Read More »Court hearing on injunction to end Winnipeg landfill blockade adjourned to Friday – Winnipeg
A court hearing on an injunction to end a blockade at a Winnipeg landfill has been adjourned until Friday after the lawyer representing some of the demonstrators argued his clients have a right to protest against systemic and ongoing violence toward Indigenous women. “This is not a protest for nothing,” …
Read More »Sex worker wins in Nova Scotia court, but ruling leaves sex industry conflicted – Halifax
In a legal decision described as the first of its kind in Canada, a Halifax sex worker successfully sued a client for nonpayment of services, but actors in the industry are conflicted about the ruling’s impacts. Former sex worker Brogan Sheehan took Bradley Samuelson to small claims court after he …
Read More »Canadian families who lost loved ones on flight PS752 seek justice in World Court
Vancouver resident Arman Abtahi can’t remember much about the tragic day he learned that his brother Mehran, a post-doctoral environmental engineer at the University of British Columbia, was killed in the downing of Ukraine Airlines flight PS752. The shock was so severe, Arman said, that much of that horrific day …
Read More »Nova Scotia appoints new provincial judge amid backlog of court cases – Halifax
A new judge has been added to Nova Scotia’s provincial court, filling one of the two remaining vacancies on the bench. In a release from the province on Friday, it was announced that Angela Caseley, a federal Crown attorney from Bedford, was appointed to the position with her tenure effective …
Read More »Court upholds convictions against Babcock’s killers, Millard loses all 3 appeals
By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted June 15, 2023 12:54 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario’s top court has upheld convictions against Dellen Millard and Mark Smich for killing a 23-year-old woman, marking back-to-back appeals dismissed this week against the multiple murderers. The decision in …
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