Exploring Theme: "Court Cases"

Baptist pastor charged with possessing child pornography claimed Métis status based on great-great-grandparent WARNING: This story contains details of child sexual exploitation and pornography. CBC News: After he was charged with possessing child pornography, Nathan Allen Joseph Legault discovered a figure from his past he hoped might help with his future. The Prince Rupert, B.C., man...

Petition asserts a section of Yukon’s Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act which allows for evictions with five days notice violates charter rights of life, liberty and security. APTN News: A First Nations woman who is challenging Yukon’s Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods law, also known as SCAN, in the territory’s Supreme Court is now waiting for a...

Disgraced priest David Norton is already serving a 13-year sentence in Ontario for sex crimes against young boys.  Ex-priest David Norton is currently serving a 13-year sentence in Ontario. The Yukon sentence will add three additional years. Photo: Diocese of Huron  APTN News: A Yukon judge has sentenced ex-Anglican priest David Norton with two three-year...

David Norton, 77, admitted convictions ‘appropriate’ after hearing testimony, despite pleading not guilty Warning: Some readers may find this story distressing CBC News: An ex-Anglican priest has been found guilty of six criminal charges for molesting two Yukon First Nation boys in the ’80s. The verdict came Wednesday after a two-day trial in Whitehorse described by...