Unpublished Newswire

A Yellowknife judge has insisted a man who claimed to be Caucasian get a report meant for Indigenous offenders before he sentences him for breaking into a hotel. Jeremy Kuneyuna — who already has 90 convictions — appeared in the Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories recently to be sentenced for breaking into a hotel. “Mr. Kuneyuna states that he is ‘Caucasian’ and on that basis has provided no information relating to case specific factors relating to his background as an indigenous offender,” Judge Robert David Gorin wrote in an April 22 decision. “When I asked him about why...

On March 17, 2021, Parliament passed Bill C-7, which repealed the “reasonable foreseeability of natural death” criterion to allow medical assistance in dying (MAID) for people who might otherwise live naturally, if intolerably, for decades. The bill also excluded from eligibility people with mental illness as their sole underlying medical condition. The exclusion was to be repealed automatically two years later but was deferred by Parliament to 2024 and subsequently deferred again to March 17, 2027. Mohamad Elfakhani is the chief of psychiatry at the London Health Sciences Centre,...