Exploring Theme: "Legislative and Institutional Issues"

Bill C-40 was designed to speed up conviction review process. The wrongful conviction committee was a topic of conversation at the 10th anniversary gala of Innocence Canada. Photo: Kathleen Martens/APTN. APTN News: An organization that works to free innocent people from Canada’s prisons says hope is fading that an independent body to review possible wrongful...

APTN News: Clarence Woodhouse from Pinaymootang First Nation in Manitoba is free after being acquitted of a murder he was convicted on 50 years ago. Woodhouse was found guilty in 1974 of fatally beating and stabbing a restaurant worker in downtown Winnipeg in 1973. “I’ll probably just relax; relax, play with my son,” he told...