The Amautiit Inuit Women’s Association wrote in a statement that it wants the ban lifted, and is “deeply concerned."
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The second edition of the Ontario Provincial Police's report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People was released on May 5.
A judge is expected to deliver a verdict today in the murder trial of three men accused of killing an elderly Abbotsford couple during a violent 2022 home invasion.
EDGEWOOD, N.M. (AP) —
By Rob Drinkwater An appeal court in Alberta has nearly doubled the sentence for a man who cut off a woman’s finger and then forced her to eat her own severed digit, saying in a ruling that the original judge downplayed the victim’s suffering and terror. Stephen Ralph Potts was convicted of aggravated assault after inviting an Indigenous woman to his home in the northern community of Chateh and attacking her in April 2024. Court heard during trial that Potts, who is also Indigenous, punched the woman repeatedly in the face without warning or provocation, breaking bones. He then ordered her to splay out her fingers, saying he was going to cut off her finger. When she relented, he severed the upper joint in her pinky and then made her
Man accused of murdering Lostprophets' Ian Watkins boasted about fame, court hears. Two men are on trial for his murder.
ABBOTSFORD — A B.C. Supreme Court judge is expected to deliver her verdict today in the first-degree murder trial of three young men accused of killing an Abbotsford, B.C., couple during a home invasion in 2022. The court earlier heard that 77-year-ol...