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July 15, 2024
Nunavut prosecutors form new team dedicated to tackling sexual violence cases
The chief federal prosecutor is under no illusion about the challenge of gaining people’s trust CBC Indigenous: Nunavut now has a team of prosecutors dedicated to sexual violence cases. Launched in April, the team within Nunavut’s Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) office will assist in all sexual violence files in the territory. On the team...
March 13, 2024
B.C. judge warns of ‘tsunami’ of Indigenous identity fraud cases
Baptist pastor charged with possessing child pornography claimed Métis status based on great-great-grandparent WARNING: This story contains details of child sexual exploitation and pornography. CBC News: After he was charged with possessing child pornography, Nathan Allen Joseph Legault discovered a figure from his past he hoped might help with his future. The Prince Rupert, B.C., man...
July 10, 2023
Nunavut judge’s denial of bail to repeat offender gives rare look into court proceedings
The Globe and Mail: The case of a Nunavut man with a dozen convictions for beating up his intimate partners is raising questions about how federal authorities address violence against women in the North, after the RCMP and a prosecutor supported the man’s release from custody on multiple new charges. The man, known as A.I., had just...
March 13, 2023
Years of abuse in Cambridge Bay group home went ignored, lawsuit alleges
Eight people say they were sexually assaulted and beaten by a couple who ran the home in the ‘70s, ‘80s WARNING: This story discusses the physical and sexual abuse of children. CBC News: On a dusty plot of land in the western Arctic community of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, sits a slightly out-of-place modern looking building...