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Bountiful Men Face Polygamy Charges
More than two decades after initial charges of polygamy were brought unsuccessfully, members of the polygamous community in Bountiful BC made their first appearance in the Creston Court on October 7th...
View ArticleDeath of Lucia Verga Jimenez Reveals Shortcomings in YVR Immigration...
Lucia Vega Jimenez was found hanging from a shower stall inside the YVR underground immigration detention centre operated by a private security firm on December 20, 2013. A coroner’s inquest was...
View ArticleProposed Kinder Morgan Pipeline Faces Legal Challenges: Part One
Kinder Morgan’s proposed Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion has been meeting with significant resistance from the City of Burnaby. The company has consequently found itself embroiled in multiple legal...
View ArticleBattle for Burnaby Mountain: Part Two (National Energy Board and Court...
See the last blog post for more details about the protracted battle that has been taking place between the National Energy Board and the City of Burnaby. The City of Burnaby, under the leadership of...
View ArticleBattle for Burnaby Mountain: Part Three (The Protestors)
To read more about the National Energy Board hearings and the City of Burnaby’s legal challenges, read Parts One and Two of this series. Public protests against the Kinder Morgan pipeline have been...
View ArticleBC Advocacy Group Leads Battle For Improved Veterans’ Benefits
Tensions between Veteran Affairs and unhappy veterans have been intensifying over the last year. The Canadian government introduced the New Veterans Charter (NVC) in 2006, and since then complaints...
View ArticleWoman Kept as “Virtual Slave” in Richmond, BC
The BC Human Rights Tribunal recently awarded one of its largest awards for damages to dignity, feelings, and self-respect in PN v. FR and another (No. 2), 2015 BCHRT 60. Tribunal Member McCreary...
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