Exploring Theme: "Legislative and Institutional Issues"

Roger Bilodeau serving a federal sentence for manslaughter in March 2020 killings CBC News: An Alberta farmer convicted of manslaughter in the deaths of Métis hunters Jacob Sansom and Maurice Cardinal in 2020 has been granted extended day parole. The Parole Board of Canada declined Roger Bilodeau’s request for full parole in an Oct. 28...

Samson Cree Nation is south of Edmonton. Photo: Chris Stewart/APTN.  APTN News: Two Indigenous politicians in Alberta say the province needs to reconsider the collection of race-based data for people who interact with police. “We reiterate the need for a comprehensive approach to fixing the structural problems in policing in this province,” said Jodi Calahoo...

NationTalk – 24 civil society groups attending the third ever meeting of Federal, Provincial, Territory Ministers responsible for human rights “condemned the obstructive attitude of some governments” in advancing international human rights obligations. Groups had pressed governments to commit to nation-wide law reform that will legally require governments to adopt a collaborative, accountable, consistent, transparent,...

HuffPost – “Bill 1 – The The Critical Infrastructure Defence Act” bans protests at critical infrastructure such as “pipelines, oilsands sites, mining sites as well as utilities, streets, highways, railways, and telecom towers and equipment. Violators who protest, trespass, interfere with operations, or cause damage around that kind of infrastructure will face fines as high...