Unpublished Newswire

A man accused of aggravated assault for stabbing three people at a Vancouver Chinatown festival, in an attack that prompted debate over the handling of some psychiatric patients, has been found not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder.B.C. Supreme Court Justice Eric Gottardi said Friday that the court doesn’t convict people of crimes for being sick.

The lawyer representing the Cowichan Tribes says he is “frustrated and disappointed” with what he calls “misinformation” about his clients’ ground-breaking Aboriginal title case in Richmond, B.C.David Rosenberg says his clients are not targeting privately held land in the title area on the Fraser River and that if the province negotiates in good faith, the “likely outcome” is a treaty recognizing Aboriginal title while allowing private owners to continue to hold fee-simple title.