Langley -JUNE 15 UPDATE – The Supreme Court of Canada says societies governing the legal profession have the right to deny accreditation to a proposed law school at Trinity Western University. The high court says law societies in Ontario and…
Vancouver (With files from the BC Civil Liberties Association) – UPDATE – The BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) and John Howard Society of Canada (JHSC) won their court case challenging the use of solitary confinement in Canada’s federal prisons. The…
Abbotsford (With files from CKNW) – The Mayor of Abbotsford is standing behind the city’s decision to try to banish the so-called “Tim Hortons of Pot” from his community. The City of Abbotsford has filed a petition in B.C. Supreme…
Vancouver – (Huffington Post) – If you think it’s okay to leave your children unsupervised, think again. A B.C. Supreme Court has ruled that children under the age of 10 should not be left home alone, no matter how mature…
Abbotsford (With files from CP/CBC) – A BC Supreme Court Judge has ruled the Abbotsford bylaw banning homeless from camping in parks overnight is unconstitutional. BCCLA (BC Civil Liberty Association) spokesperson Josh Paterson said they are very happy with the…
Terrace/Vancouver – An eight-year-old child is too young to stay home alone, the B.C. Supreme Court has ruled. In the judgment released this week, the court upheld an earlier ruling in the case of a Terrace mother who left her eight-year-old son unsupervised…
Victoria – In partnership with the Child Welfare League of Canada (CWLC), the Ministry of Children and Family Development has asked Bob Plecas, a highly respected former deputy minister, to lead an independent review into matters arising from Judge Walker’s recent…
Mission/Lima, Peru (Vancouver Sun) A convicted killer who escaped from a minimum-security Mission prison last August has been found more than 8,000 kilometres away in Peru. Norman Gilbert Riel, 42, was picked up by local authorities last week in an…
Abbotsford/Chilliwack (Abbotsford News) – A man who was found with child pornography while crossing the border from the U.S. into Abbotsford in 2011 has been given a six-month jail sentence. Gordon Lawrence Ellis was sentenced recently in B.C. Supreme Court…
Chilliwack/Vancouver (Jennifer Saltman – Vancouver Province) – Prosecutors are seeking two years in jail for a Chilliwack woman who counselled more than 100 foreign au pairs to lie to border guards about their reason for coming to Canada. “This was…