A police officer with the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary listened to testimony Monday afternoon from a man whom he arrested nearly six years ago in a chaotic scene that ended with one person pepper-sprayed, a smashed patio door, and two men in handcuffs.
The St. Vincent de Paul-sponsored food bank will be held on Aug. 16 at the St. Mary’s Social Hall (118 Church St., Brownsville) parking lot from 11 a.m. through noon.
Lawyers with Innocence Canada are calling for a review of several decades' worth of murder cases involving Indigenous offenders after two First Nations men were acquitted of a murder that happened half a century ago.
A courtroom erupted in cheers and applause Tuesday after a Manitoba judge said the words two First Nations men have been waiting a half-century to hear.