Unpublished Newswire

The Supreme Court of Canada has restored a Toronto nurse’s attempted-murder conviction while saying it need not clarify when murder charges can be laid against people who provoke apparent suicides. “The question of the legal relationship between attempted murder and aiding suicide has no bearing” on the case at hand, wrote Supreme Court Justice Michelle O’Bonsawin for the majority decision.

Air Canada has prevailed in the Federal Court against a recent Canadian Transportation Agency decision that the judge said lacked “common sense.”   The case involves two passengers travelling on an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Vancouver on May 25, 2022, planning to return three days later. However, a bag didn’t arrive in Vancouver when they did. Instead, Air Canada delivered it to their hotel the following morning, on May 26. (The name of the case indicates that the respondent-passenger involved was Alaa Badia Tannous, but no other details about “the passengers” are provided...