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It could take as little as a minutes-long meeting with Sarah Robinson for your life to change, say some who were close to her.
The Indigenous woman from the Fort Nelson and Saulteau First Nations had the ability to make people feel special and transform the way they thought, said Chastity Davis-Alphonse, a friend who sat with her on the Minister’s Advisory Council on Indigenous Women. That was one of several advocacy and advisory roles Robinson held before her recent death of cancer at 35.
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VANCOUVER A prominent criminal defence lawyer and the director of policy for the B.C. Civil Liberties Association are raising questions about a decision by the Vancouver Police Department to release the names and pictures of alleged gang members. The VPD released the information about its “Top Six” alleged gangsters on Monday, saying the men listed could be targets for violence that could put members of the public in the crosshairs. The public warning – which was echoed Tuesday by B.C.’s integrated anti-gang police agency with its own list of 11 that included some overlap – follows an escalation in fatal gang-involved shootings across Metro Vancouver, many of them in public places.
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N.S. mass killing probe names participants including families, police, victims groups
by The Canadian Press
Last Updated May 13, 2021 at 11:58 am EDT
Michael MacDonald, the former Chief Justice of Nova Scotia, stands in downtown Halifax on Thursday, May 13, 2021. MacDonald is the chair of the Mass Casualty Commission, an independent public inquiry created to examine the April 18-19, 2020 mass casualty in Nova Scotia and will submit a report containing their findings, lessons learned, and recommendations at the end of their mandate in November 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
HALIFAX The public inquiry into Nova Scotia’s mass shooting has named participants, including families of those killed, police groups and organizations that advocate against gender-based violence.