The Crown is proceeding with charges against eight protesters who demonstrated against the twinning of the Trans Mountain pipeline project in Kamloops last October. Appearing in B.C. Supreme . . .
Dick said the court has not made it clear to them if the charges against them are civil or criminal in nature. Dick said court has refused to accept documents from hereditary Secwépemc Chief Henry Sawses that indicate the courts have a lack of jurisdiction on Secwépemc territory. Signs show the sentiment of opponents of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. A group gathered at the Kamloops Law Courts on March 1, 2021. - Michael Potestio/KTW Dick said the Secwépemc Nation members and their allies are gathering to support those arrested as they “assert their rights and take on the systemic and environmental racism inherent to the same courts that continue assert jurisdiction with no legal rights to do so.”
A Kamloops man facing murder and attempted murder charges stemming from a violent altercation inside a North Shore apartment in March 2020 will undergo a psychiatric assessment.
Preliminary inquiries are hearings at which a provincial court judge determines whether there is enough evidence for an accused person to stand trial in B.C. Supreme Court. Evidence presented at the hearing is protected by a court-ordered ban on publication. In 2019,, White was presented with a Best New Manuscript Award from Castle Quay Books Canada, a Christian publisher based in the Toronto area. His book, Dancing on a Razor, was celebrated in the Canadian Christian non-fiction genre. White was stabbed to death in Kamloops on March 29, 2020. Palmer, 44, has been in custody since the early-morning hours of March 29, 2020, not long after Kevin White was stabbed to death inside a Carson Crescent apartment. Palmer is accused of killing White, 59, and stabbing three other men inside the suite a pair of brothers, ages 62 and 58, and a 21-year-old man.