Unpublished Newswire

U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term in office has borne witness to a dramatic and unprecedented escalation in tensions between the U.S. and President Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuela. The White House has deployed a naval task force towards Venezuela and destroyed over 20 boats with the purported aim of preventing the flow of narcotics to American shores. However, many view the buildup as a pretext for regime change; Trump has repeatedly suggested that Maduro’s days in power are numbered and has authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations on Venezuelan soil. But as the Trump...

Alberta’s top court has quashed the contempt conviction for a Crown attorney who ran afoul of a justice of the peace who wouldn’t listen to him at a bail hearing. Justice of the Peace Diane T. Luttmer ejected prosecutor James D. Wilson from her courtroom and convicted him of contempt this past May. The Court of Appeal recently overturned Wilson’s conviction. “The right of a party to be heard … is a fundamental principle of natural justice,” said a recent decision out of Calgary from the three-judge panel. “Breach of that right leads to a denial of natural justice, harms the...