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Judges' sexual assault training bill receives royal assent after clearing the Senate Rona Ambrose is shown during an interview with The Canadian Press in Ottawa, Thursday, May 18, 2017. New judges will have to commit to take training in sexual assault law, thanks to a new law that received royal assent last night. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand May 07, 2021 - 2:15 PM OTTAWA - Rona Ambrose says she had no idea it would take so long and require such determination to see that new judges are properly trained in sexual assault law. Four years and three attempts l...

Winnipeg Free Press Thomas Berger a visionary who advanced Indigenous rights By: Niigaan Sinclair | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Friday, Apr. 30, 2021 Thomas Berger gave Indigenous people a voice. In 1974, when Canada held an inquiry into the construction of a gas pipeline through the Mackenzie River Valley in the Yukon and Northwest Territories — through Dene, Inuit, and Métis land — commissioner Berger did something unheard of. He went to the people. In what became known as the "Berger Inquiry," he held hearings in all 35 communitie...

Murray Sinclair, who served as a senator until January 2021, will begin his role as chancellor of Queen’s University on July 1

Beth Leighton B.C. Justice Thomas Berger, chairman of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Commission ,is photographed in May, 1977. Berger, a British Columbia politician, lawyer, judge and commissioner whose work led Canada to recognize Aboriginal title to land, has died at the age of 88. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand April 29, 2021 - 5:13 PM VANCOUVER - Thomas Berger, a British Columbia politician, lawyer, judge and commissioner whose work led Canada to recognize Aboriginal title to land, has died of cancer at the age of 88. Berger's daughter, Erin Berger, said her ...

Brandon Sun By: Beth Leighton, The Canadian Press Posted: Last Modified: 5:32 PM CDT Thursday, Apr. 29, 2021 Save to Read Later VANCOUVER - Thomas Berger, a British Columbia politician, lawyer, judge and commissioner whose work led Canada to recognize Aboriginal title to land, has died of cancer at the age of 88. B.C. Justice Thomas Berger, chairman of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Commission ,is photographed in May, 1977. Berger, a British Columbia politician, lawyer, judge and com...