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TORONTO – Missed opportunities proved costly for the Toronto Blue Jays on Thursday night as Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees took full advantage. One night after leaving 14 men on base in a walkoff win, the Blue Jays squandered several good chances in a 4-2 loss at Rogers …
Read More »Judge homer lifts Yankees over Blue Jays
TORONTO – Sticky stuff. A dugout quarrel. Growing tension between division rivals and no shortage of drama. The New York Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays delivered again Tuesday with a game that had a bit of everything. And just like a night earlier, it was Yankees slugger Aaron Judge who …
Read More »Quebec justice minister faces ethics probe after naming friend to provincial court – Montreal
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted May 16, 2023 11:38 am Updated May 16, 2023 11:53 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette is facing an ethics investigation after appointing his friend as a provincial court judge. Ethics commissioner Ariane Mignolet opened an investigation …
Read More »Judge dismisses youth climate lawsuit over Ontario’s greenhouse gas targets
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 19, 2023 4:33 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Ontario Superior Court has dismissed a constitutional challenge from seven youth activists who argued the province is discriminating against young people by setting greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets dangerously low, …
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 …
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, …
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