A complaint over comments an Alberta judge made about a Nigerian-born medical examiner’s accent is now before a member of the Canadian Judicial Council’s conduct committee.
Day: March 11, 2021
Eugenie Bouchard has reached the quarter-finals at the Abierto De Guadalajara tennis tournament in Mexico, while fellow Canadian Leylah Annie Fernandez was ousted in the round of 16.
A judge has sentenced Corey Hurren, who stormed the gates of Rideau Hall last summer with loaded firearms and multiple rounds of ammunition, to six years in prison, minus a year served.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Merrick Garland to be the next U.S. attorney general with a strong bipartisan vote Wednesday, placing the widely-respected, veteran judge in the post after he was snubbed by Republicans for a spot on the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016.
Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin said today that vaccine supplies have stabilized and the “ramp up” phase of the inoculation campaign is in full swing, with some 36.4 million shots expected to arrive before the end of June.