Toronto Star photograph: Lawyer quits Missing Women Inquiry
Lawyer Robyn Gervais resigns from Missing Women Commission of Inquiry.
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Missing women inquiry lawyer resigns, saying police given priority over Aboriginal voices
The Pickton inquiry faced a new setback today, as the lawyer for Aboriginal interests quit – the latest in a string of boycotts and criticisms which some say has cost the commission its legitimacy.
Tensions at Missing Women’s inquiry boil over
B.C.’s Missing Women’s Inquiry saw a pointed argument between the lawyer for families of Robert Pickton’s murder victims.
Controversial Prosperity mine blocked by B.C. Supreme Court judge
After First Nations blockades, a controversial copper and gold mine faces a new hurdle: a judge.
Legal challenge seeking George W. Bush’s arrest during B.C. visit fails
George W. Bush’s visit to Surrey, B.C., on Thursday was met with a protest and an unsuccessful courtroom bid to have him detained for torture during his presidency
Former Guantanamo prisoner supports Bush arrest
After spending five years as an extra-judicial prisoner of George W. Bush’s ‘war on terror,’ Murat Kurnaz is disappointed that Canada did not arrest the former U.S. president during his visit to Surrey
Lawyers press for Bush arrest, as #Occupy activists set to converge in Surrey
A 70-page legal indictment — accompanied by a staggering 4,000-page dossier — has been filed in B.C. court to have former George W. Bush arrested during his visit to Surrey tomorrow
Families of missing women take to the streets, joined by #OccupyVancouver
As a troubled inquiry into missing women entered its second week, family members of the disappeared took over a busy downtown intersection in opposition
Police rough up anti-Cheney protesters
As former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney spoke in Vancouver on Monday night, several hundred people demanded his arrest on charges of war crimes and torture, blocking both entrances to the upscale Vancouver Club by linking arms, as others staged a sit-in lasting several hours.
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