WINNIPEG Complaints have been filed and probes are underway after a private investigator was hired to tail a Manitoba judge. On Monday, Court of Queen’s Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal revealed he’d been followed from the law courts to his home by a private investigator trying to catch him breaking public health orders. The firm doing the surveillance was hired by the Alberta-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms – the group representing seven Manitoba churches who are challenging the province’s public health orders. Joyal is presiding over the case. Ottawa-based human rights lawyer Richard Warman has filed complaints with the Manitoba and Alberta law societies, calling on them to investigate three lawyers involved in the case.
WINNIPEG The province has launched a new corporation to disperse community group grants to support victims of crime. Manitoba Justice Minister Cameron Friesen announced on Tuesday the province would be providing $5 million which will be given to different community groups to go towards supports and services for victims of crime. Wilma Derksen, Ron Evans and Cydney Bergen are the founding board members of Victims Assistance Community Grants Inc. and will create the framework to distribute the dollars. I think we have an opportunity to revisit some of the crime victim issues with new creativity and insight, Derksen said during a news conference on Tuesday.
Winnipeg Free Press By: Dylan Robertson
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Victim’s Assistance Community Grants Inc. board member Wilma Derksen at announcement for new funding supports for victims of crime at the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg on Tuesday.
The Pallister government is channelling $5 million from convict fees to a new independent panel for helping Manitoba crime victims.
The Pallister government is channelling $5 million from convict fees to a new independent panel for helping Manitoba crime victims. I think our combined experiences will give us some well-rounded perspective to work with, said Wilma Derksen, who is among the three leaders of the newly incorporated Victim’s Assistance Community Grants Inc.
Lawyer John Carpay apologized for his “poor judgment” during a special hearing Monday called by the judge overseeing a court challenge of COVID-19 restrictions in Manitoba. Photo by Bill Graveland / The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG The president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is stepping away from the Alberta-based organization after admitting to hiring a private investigator to follow a Manitoba judge.
The Justice Centre s board said that effective immediately, John Carpay is taking an indefinite period of leave.
“Surveilling public officials is not what we do. We condemn what was done without reservation,” the board said in a news release Tuesday.
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