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About 50 residents of Beaurivage, a rural community in Kent County, piled into a bus to head to the Moncton Law Courts on Friday. They were there to attend the hearing for a temporary injunction to shut down the Coastal Shell drying facility for the duration of ongoing lawsuits. Seven residents …
Read More »Saskatchewan judge to hear injunction application over school pronoun policy
A Saskatchewan judge is to hear an injunction application that seeks to halt the province’s policy affecting children who use different pronouns at school. Lawyers for UR Pride, an organization representing LGBTQ2 people in Regina, are to argue in favour of the injunction. The lawyers from Egale Canada and McCarthy Tetrault LLP …
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 »City of Winnipeg applies for injunction to remove Brady landfill blockade
The City of Winnipeg has applied for a court injunction to end a blockade at a landfill that has been in place since last Thursday. In an application to the Court of King’s Bench, the city is asking for a judge to order an end to the blockade at the …
Read More »City’s request for injunction at landfill ‘disheartening’ but expected, chief says – Winnipeg
The City of Winnipeg’s efforts to get a court injunction to end a blockade at the Brady Road landfill that has been in place since last Thursday were expected, but “disheartening,” says a Manitoba Indigenous leader. In an application to the Court of King’s Bench, the city is asking a …
Read More »Ontario judge grants another permanent injunction in 2 year land dispute
More than two years after a group of Indigenous demonstrators started occupying a proposed development site in southwestern Ontario, a provincial court has again granted an injunction permanently barring them from the land. In a written decision released this week, Justice Paul Sweeny of the Ontario Superior Court said Skyler …
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