The ramifications of the attorney general’s second loss in B.C. Supreme Court, by way of a decision released Tuesday, make for some new questions about how vehicle crash cases in B.C. will be handled. In the immediate fallout, B.C.’s Civil Resolution Tribunal said Wednesday it is putting 110 cases on “pause” following the court’s finding that it doesn’t have the constitutional authority to hear them. The “pause for now” will also apply to all “minor” injury ICBC damage claims still being processed going back to April 2019. The Civil Resolution Tribunal reported 125 such cases in its first annual report, and that caseload was growing.
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B.C.âs inquiry into money laundering finally got a glimpse inside what was billed as Canadaâs largest-ever money-laundering investigation, and it was an ugly, ugly sight.
The one-man inquiry commission was told hundreds of police officers and regulators worked from April to October 2015 on a massive joint operation dubbed Project E-Pirate â involving Mounties, municipal cops, the B.C. Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (Fintrac), B.C. Lottery Corp., and others.
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B.C. Attorney General David Eby tried not to sound churlish in his support of the suite of federal measures aimed at addressing systemic racism in the country’s legal system.
Who can blame him? The federal announcement was filled with fine-sounding rhetoric; but the province gets to provide the services and pick up most of the tab.
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Federal Attorney General David Lametti on Thursday unveiled a package of measures to address the staggering over-incarceration of Black and Indigenous peoples amending the Criminal Code and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to repeal mandatory minimum penalties for certain drug, firearm and tobacco offences and adopting more holistic, community-based sentences and diversion programs.