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Article content Alberta did not participate in a process to request funding for new federally appointed judges, leading to opposition charges that the UCP government failed to take steps to speed up the court system. The federal Liberals’ budget implementation legislation, Bill C-30, includes millions of dollars for 13 new judicial positions on superior courts across Canada. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or No new judges for Alberta in 2021 federal budget: Ottawa says province didn't apply Back to video Despite frequent complaints from Alber...

Article content An Alberta woman sentenced to 18 years behind bars for killing her abusive husband is appealing her punishment. On Thursday, 56-year-old Helen Doris Naslund filed a notice asking the Alberta Court of Appeal to review her sentence. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Alberta woman appeals 18-year sentence for killing abusive husband Back to video Naslund pleaded guilty last October for shooting her husband Miles Naslund while he slept in their Holden, Alta. farmhouse. She later sunk the body in a pond with help from her son Neil, w...

That is the term limit that would have been imposed on senators under the Harper government's original plan to have an elected Senate, which never came to fruition. Thirty other senators named on the advice of Harper are still in the Senate and all but one — Alberta Sen. Scott Tannas — have now been there more than eight years. Announcing her early retirement Monday, Beyak said she stands by her controversial statements on residential schools, which played a role in her being ousted from the Conservative caucus and suspended from the upper chamber. "Some have criticized me for stating tha...

\Senator Lynn Beyak waits for the throne speech in Dec. 2019. Photo by: The Canadian Press/Chris Wattie OTTAWA — Ontario Sen. Lynn Beyak is leaving the upper chamber three years before her mandatory retirement and defiantly standing by her views on residential schools on her way out. Named to the Senate on the advice of Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper in 2013, she says she was committed to serving just eight years. That is the term limit that would have been imposed on senators under the Harper government's original plan to have an elected Senate, which never came to fruition. T...

Brandon Sun By: The Canadian Press Last Modified: 12:37 PM CST Monday, Jan. 25, 2021 Advertisement Sen. Lynn Beyak waits for the throne speech in the Senate chamber in Ottawa, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Beyak is retiring from the Senate three years early. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Wattie OTTAWA - Ontario Sen. Lynn Beyak is leaving the upper chamber three years before her mandatory retirement and defiantly standing by her views on residential schools on her way out. Named to the Senate on the advice of Conservative prime minist...