Unlike the trial of Gerald Stanley, the case of Edouard Maurice has no apparent racial dimension. For angry property owners, it’s becoming a yardstick case.
After Gerald Stanley’s acquittal in the death of Colten Boushie, tensions around the Battlefords are high, and fear and hatred are close to the surface.
Indigenous scholars, activists and community members are doing the important work of situating Colten Boushie’s life and death within the colonial context
A retired Supreme Court justice looked at ways to get more Indigenous people onto juries. Among his ideas: end ’discriminatory use of peremptory challenges.’