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In a half-century law career that has had him defend embezzlers and fraud artists, accused killers and everyone in between, Hymie Weinstein has amassed enough stories to fill a very heavy book.
In a half-century law career that has had him defend embezzlers and fraud artists, accused killers and everyone in between, Hymie Weinstein has amassed enough stories to fill a very heavy book.
It’s a book Weinstein insists he will never write. But if he did, this story, he says, would be Chapter 1:
It’s the late 1970s, and Weinstein is defending a young man accused of stabbing a woman to death at a house party.
Preliminary findings on the grounds of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. reveal the remains of 215 Indigenous children. The news cuts into an exposed nerve on the body politic of this country: the state of justice for First Nations people in Canada. Justice is not blind in Canada’s legal system, argues Métis lawyer Jean Teillet. She says it needs to view Indigenous people fully to render justice fairly.
Posted: Apr 08, 2021 5:41 PM CT | Last Updated: April 9
People are coming together Thursday evening in memory of Eishia Hudson, a 16-year-old girl who was fatally shot by a Winnipeg police officer a year ago. (Eishia Hudson/Facebook)
About 300 people attended a vigil in Winnipeg to honour a 16-year old girl who was fatally shot by a Winnipeg police officer a year ago Thursday.
Memorials are being held in Winnipeg, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax Thursday evening to honour the life of Eishia Hudson, who died on April 8, 2020.
The family is doing fairly well, said Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Arlen Dumas.