People suffering from FAD at high risk of confessing to crimes they didn’t commit: AIDWYC
The Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted is in Whitehorse this week.
Justice
Suspended senator Patrick Brazeau to enter rehab after impaired charges
Suspended senator Patrick Brazeau has avoided jail for now and is again being sent to a treatment centre following his arrest Monday in Gatineau, Que., where he was found drunk and with a knife in a parked car he didn’t own.
Mining firm receives ‘stones of shame’ from Quebec Innu
The chiefs of two Innu communities in northern Quebec took an unusual action Wednesday in the middle of downtown Montreal.
Canadian border agent charged with possessing child porn
A Canadian border guard stationed at a controversial customs post on the edge of Akwesasne has been snared in a massive child porn sweep launched by the OPP.
VIDEO: Interview with Tina Fontaine’s aunt Thelma Favel on the latest heartbreaking news
Tina Fontaine’s family is shocked and angry that Winnipeg Police had the 15-year-old in their custody on August 8, a day before she disappeared.
RCMP charge two Dakota Ojibway police officers over use of force’s credit card
RCMP charged five people, including a sergeant and a constable, for unauthorized use of data from a credit card belonging to the Dakota Ojibway police service.
Preliminary hearing into death of Inuk woman wraps in Halifax
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A week-long preliminary hearing into the killing of an Inuk woman wrapped up in Halifax today.
Loretta Saunders’ family frustrated by lack of courtroom access
Loretta Saunders was killed this past February and the preliminary hearing for the two accused of killing her has been unfolding in Halifax this week.
Father held bleeding son after RCMP shooting in Norway House
Earlier this week APTN told you about Evan Cromarty, the 20 year-old man shot by the RMCP on the Norway House Cree Nation in northern Manitoba.