Transfer Appeal In Omar Khadr’s Case Will be Heard by Supreme Court The Supreme Court will hear a transfer appeal in the case of Omar Khadr, and will determine whether the federal government must transfer the inmate to a provincial jail or whether Khadr can still be housed in a federal penitentiary instead. In July…
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According to the Supreme Court of Canada law enforcement does not require a warrant to perform a cell phone search in most cases, as long as strict rules set down by the court are followed. In addition to the strict guidelines given the cell phone search is limited in scope until a search warrant is…
Read moreFor Immediate Release December 10, 2014 — Ottawa, Ontario — Public Works and Government Services Canada The National Fighter Procurement Secretariat today released the 2014 National Defence Annual Update on the life-cycle cost estimates for the F-35, the independent review of the Annual Update, and the latest report on Canadian industrial participation in the F-35…
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A new prostitution bill that was recently passed by the Canadian government has been slammed by sex worker groups. The bill was controversial from the moment that it was proposed, and while the intent was to protect sex workers and view them as victims rather than criminals the end result is not popular with sex…
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The Fort MacKay First Nation leader Chief Jim Boucher receives the second highest salary out of all the chiefs in Canada, and is the highest paid chief in the Alberta region. The only individual who made more as a chief was Kwikwetlem First Nation Chief Ron Giesbrecht of British Columbia. Chief Jim Boucher received a…
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In 2009 the bird flu was found in B.C., and this had economic issues that caused a number of problems. It is now 2014, and a new avian flu quarantine is in effect again for some poultry farms in the B.C. region because a more virulent form of the same bird flu has been identified…
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