Ian Mulgrew: B.C. government perpetuating colonial-style justice
B.C.’s justice minister and attorney general is breaching the Constitution and ignoring two Supreme Court of Canada rulings aimed at cutting the number of First Nations people behind bars, claims a court challenge to the policy.
Prosecutors, however, have tried to derail the application for a stay of proceedings by offender Barry Dick over the Crown’s refusal to provide a so-called Gladue report, which provides context about an Indigenous offender’s circumstances, the effects o
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