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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 …
Read More »B.C. judge cancels marriage annulment after finding woman posing as ex-wife was ‘imposter’
A B.C. Supreme Court judge in Kamloops has cancelled a marriage annulment after concluding that the woman who appeared before him to consent to the order was an “imposter.” In a ruling he said was necessary — in part — to prevent a “miscarriage of justice,” Justice Dennis Hori last week set aside an order …
Read More »B.C. judge lambastes conservation group for using protesters as ‘cannon fodder’
A B.C. provincial court judge has accused a conservation group of using frontline protesters as “sacrificial lambs” to mount illegal traffic blockades aimed at drawing attention to their climate change agenda by stirring up chaos. In a searing decision, Judge Laura Bakan gave a conditional sentence to a 30-year-old who took part earlier this year in …
Read More »Judge rejects Michigan’s latest argument against Enbridge Line 5 pipeline
A Michigan judge has ruled in favour of Enbridge Inc. in its long-standing dispute with the state over the Line 5 cross-border pipeline. In her ruling on Thursday, Judge Janet Neff said the case belongs in federal court — a blow to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s bid to shut down the …
Read More »Conspiracy theory about ‘new world order’ won’t save Vancouver home from foreclosure, judge rules
When Karen Wai King Lew told a B.C. judge that her mortgage debt had been completely forgiven, she invoked a two-decade-old conspiracy theory about a “new world order” that has recently resurfaced. According to a recent B.C. Supreme Court ruling, Lew appealed a foreclosure order on her Vancouver home on …
Read More »Judge instructs jury before its deliberations in online extortion case of B.C. teen Amanda Todd
WARNING: This article contains details of sexual extortion and may affect those who have experienced it or know someone affected by it. The B.C. Supreme Court justice in the trial of a Dutch man charged with harassing and extorting teenager Amanda Todd told the jury to “take special care” with the teen’s statements Friday, …
Read More »Judge throws out lawsuit against Alberta’s chief electoral officer
A Queen’s Bench justice has tossed out a lawsuit from a former MLA who claimed Alberta’s chief electoral officer interfered with his campaign and maliciously prosecuted him. Joe Anglin, the former MLA for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, says he plans to appeal the ruling, which concluded Anglin was misusing the courts …
Read More »‘It’s intimidation’: Judge faces threats after Freedom Convoy hearings
One of the judges who presided over the court hearings of Freedom Convoy organizers is speaking out after receiving threats considered serious enough to require police intervention, according to information obtained by Radio-Canada and CBC. The judge in question confirmed that supporters of the convoy from Canada and the United States sent several offensive …
Read More »Judge throws out publisher’s $30M defamation suit against Toronto politicians, journalists
An Ontario Superior Court judge has thrown out a $30-million defamation suit accusing several local Toronto politicians, journalists and media outlets of labelling the owner and publisher of an Italian-language newspaper homophobic, transphobic and anti-LGBTQ+. The suit was filed in April of 2021 by Joseph Volpe, the publisher of Corriere Canadese, and M.T.E.C. Consultants, which …
Read More »Transgender youth in Alabama can get gender-affirming medical care, judge rules
A federal judge on Friday blocked part of an Alabama law that made it a felony to prescribe gender-affirming puberty blockers and hormones to transgender minors. U.S. District Judge Liles Burke issued a preliminary injunction to stop the state from enforcing the medication ban, which took effect May 8, while …
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