Juno Jump Start | Crown seeks harsher sentences for Tamara Lich, Chris Barber
Prosecutors are seeking seven years for Lich and eight for Barber, Amelia Boultbee has officially crossed the floor to join the B.C. NDP government, and more.
Crown seeks harsher sentences for Tamara Lich, Chris Barber
After serving her sentence, Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich is expected back in court next Spring following a Crown appeal seeking additional jail time.
“My sentence will be served January 21, 2027 and then it’ll be back to court to start this process all over again,” Lich wrote on X Tuesday.
In R. v. Barber and R. v. Lich, the Crown appealed the acquittal and sentences of Chris Barber and Lich Tuesday over their roles in the 2022 Freedom Convoy.
Prosecutors are seeking seven years for Lich and eight for Barber, with critics calling the mischief penalties excessive. Keep Reading
Voters elected her as a Conservative. She just joined the NDP.
Originally elected as a B.C. Conservative, Independent MLA Amelia Boultbee has officially crossed the floor to join the B.C. NDP government, citing that the Conservative base wants to take the party who voted her in “further and further to the right.”
Boultbee resigned from the B.C. Conservative party last year while the party’s first leader John Rustad was still in office. She has also taken shots at the new party leader Kerry Lynne-Findlay accusing her of being elected by a base drawn to “Donald Trump-style populism.” Keep Reading
Corb Lund’s anti-mining petition rejected by Elections Alberta
Country music star Corb Lund’s citizen initiative petition to ban new coal mining in Alberta won’t be part of the provincial referendum in October after it failed to garner enough signatures to meet the threshold.
The petition had specifically targeted two proposed coal projects: Northback’s Grassy Mountain and Valory Resources’ Blackstone mine in Alberta’s eastern slopes. Keep Reading
RCMP purchased border patrol Black Hawk not legally permitted in Canada
The RCMP says it wasn’t responsible for ensuring its new border patrol Black Hawk could legally fly in Canada, even as it defends buying the helicopter after it was grounded over Transport Canada concerns. Keep Reading
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Man arrested for assaulting a female stranger with lumber, released
Carlos Caldera Duarte, a man who was arrested and charged after allegedly striking an unsuspecting woman in the head “with a piece of wood,” at Kits Beach in Vancouver, critically injuring the victim, was released by the courts despite police advising against it. Keep Reading
Foreign agents operating in Canada won’t have to disclose their pay
Liberal Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree has revealed that foreign agents aiming to influence public office holders in Canada will be compelled to register their dealings in Canada with the federal government, but that any cash transactions and pay they receive will not have to be disclosed. Keep Reading
Remind me what the sentence was for the government that invoked the emergency act illegally?
The Crown is now at harassment level..All because their Itty bitty ego got hurt. This is costing us tax payers millions of dollars and its intentional to harm two people who have not killed,maimed, raped anyone nor home invasion, vehicle theft. At th8s point the Crown is the oppressor!