Posted: Dec 12, 2020 7:00 AM CT | Last Updated: December 12, 2020
CBC is challenging a publication ban the prosecutor wants on information about the death of a 22-year-old woman in Yellowknife last May. The information came out in court during the sentencing of two people who plead guilty to helping cover up the death.(Walter Strong/CBC)
Arguing for a ban on details of an alleged murder in Yellowknife, a Crown prosecutor said that publication bans are sometimes more necessary in smaller populations such as the North than they are in large southern centres.
Blair MacPherson said in Northwest Territories Supreme Court on Wednesday that the CBC had made powerful and persuasive arguments, against the ban, but added they were arguments for a southern jurisdiction . we re asking for a decision that takes into account the context here.