Judge in pipeline case declines to step aside over alleged bias

The judge who has been handling the case of the protesters arrested at Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project has declined to step aside over an allegation he has been biased.
Two of the protesters arrested at the Burnaby work site applied last week for B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Affleck to recuse himself, arguing that the judge had shown a “reasonable apprehension” of bias since he began hearing the case.
In March, the judge imposed an injunction pre