Exploring Theme: "Court Cases"

Human rights and legal challenge succeed Sumner-Pruden family signing settlement agreement that will see First Nations children living on-reserve have access to provincial disability services. L-R: mother Harriet, son Dewey and father Alfred. Photo: Sav Jonsa/APTN News  APTN News: First Nations children living on-reserve in Manitoba are now eligible for provincial disability-related services like home...

Bradley Barton is currently serving 12 and a half years for manslaughter. Cindy Gladue was a mother of three when she died in June 2011. Photo: APTN file  APTN News: The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed an appeal from Bradley Barton, the Ontario truck driver convicted of killing Cindy Gladue. Barton is currently serving a...

Judge rejects defence argument he should be found not criminally responsible due to mental disorder WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC Indigenous: Serial killer Jeremy Skibicki has been convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of four women in Winnipeg. Manitoba Court of King’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal delivered the decision Thursday morning...

Environmental licence change was part of 1st stage in search of Prairie Green landfill for remains, Kinew says WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: The Manitoba government has set out five stages to search a Winnipeg-area landfill by hand for the remains of two victims of an admitted serial killer — the first of which...

Barton is serving a 12½-year prison sentence for manslaughter WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC Indigenous: Cindy Gladue’s family is hopeful that a dismissal of Bradley Barton’s bid for a third trial marks the end of a legal process that has dragged on for more than a decade. On Monday, the Court of Appeal...

 – Arend J.A. Hoekstra, Aaron Cressman, Shermaine Chua ABORIGINAL NationTalk: Cassels, Our Insights – On November 1, 2023, the Quebec Superior Court (Court) released R. c. Montour, which considered whether two First Nation-member defendants were criminally liable for importing substantial amounts of tobacco without paying duties under the Excise Act, 2001.1 R. c. Montour found that the defendants, as members of the...