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MONTREAL No one in Quebec has been fined or ticketed for violating the national health order requiring travellers arriving in Canada to quarantine at a designated hotel, according to the province s prosecution bureau. That is despite Quebec s government being one of the most vocal in the country for strict border restrictions. Premier Francois Legault had repeatedly demanded Ottawa do more to curb people s ability to leave or enter the country. In January, Legault called on Ottawa to ban non-essential flights to Canada or require people to quarantine at a hotel where they could more easily be monitored by police.
March 02, 2021 - 2:49 PM Penticton police officers have arrested a prolific offender sleeping in a stolen vehicle, for the second time. A Penticton resident reported that his vehicle stolen from his driveway overnight, Feb. 22. The following day at 11:30 a.m. an RCMP officer found the vehicle on Rosetown Avenue, according to the RCMP in a press release. The driver, who was fast asleep, was identified as Shane Pope, 30, from Penticton. Another man associated to the vehicle was also located nearby. Pope was arrested for being in possession of stolen property, along with breaching his court imposed conditions. The officer released the second suspect without process, RCMP said.
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VICTORIA, B.C – The British Columbia Prosecution Service announced changes to policies that specifically target the overrepresentation of Indigenous persons in the BC criminal justice system.
Government commissions and reports, and judgments of the Supreme Court of Canada have, for decades, recognized that Indigenous persons experience discrimination and unacceptable overrepresentation at all levels of the criminal justice system.
According to British Columbia Prosecution Service Communications Counsel Dan McLaughlin, “Close to 30 per cent of the inmate population is comprised of Indigenous persons, whereas the general Canadian population they represent in the order of 4 per cent.”