Charges Dropped for 14 Truckers Involved in Coutts Demonstration

Charges Dropped for 14 Truckers Involved in Coutts Demonstration

In the winter of 2022, while the Freedom Convoy demonstrations were happening in Ottawa, truckers also blocked the border crossing between Coutts, Alberta and Sweetgrass, Montana.
14 truckers were charged with parking violations which have been recently withdrawn in court, after it was found that they had been charged using a law not applicable to their alleged conduct.

Sentenced Reduced for Man Who Killed RCMP Officers

Sentenced Reduced for Man Who Killed RCMP Officers

The Supreme Court of Canada has made a decision to strike down a 2011 federal law that made it possible to extend parole ineligibility for those convicted of multiple murders. This decision is binding and must now be applied to all sentences, as in the case of Justin Bourque.
Bourque plead guilty to 3 counts of first-degree murder and 2 counts of attempted murder for targeting RCMP officers in June of 2014 and was subsequently handed a sentence of life in prison.