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The significance of this ruling was enormous," said Col. Dwight Sullivan, the chief military defence lawyer for Guantanamo detainees. "What we have seen today is the latest demonstration that the military commissions system does not work ... The commission is an experiment that failed and we don't need any more evidence that it is a failure. Khadr, accused of throwing a grenade that killed U.S. Army Sgt. Christopher Speer in 2002, had been classified by a combatant status review tribunal only as an "enemy combatant." But that ruling left open the technical possibility Khadr may have been legally fighting American forces under the laws of war, [Peter Brownback] said. "A person has a right to be tried by a court he knows has jurisdiction over him," Brownback said. Otherwise, he said, "a...
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[Garry Hirsekorn]'s charges stem from an incident in 2007 where he killed a mule deer near Elkwater in the Cypress Hills area of southern Alberta. Hirsekorn's case, and a number of others yet to be resolved, were all part of planned action by the Métis to bring attention to harvesting rights that the Alberta government said were limited to areas around established Métis settlements, which are located north of Edmonton. [Clem Chartier] said the Hirsekorn case added one more element to the fight that shows that Métis people were mobile and that the entire northwest was part of the Métis nation homeland. He said harvesting victories in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario were "pieces of the puzzle. Eventually we'll be able to put all the pieces together. Here in Alberta are all the pieces o...
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OTTAWA - A federal government directive preventing the Canadian Wheat Board from pushing a pro-monopoly stance will stand after the Supreme Court of Canada denied the board leave to appeal on Thursday. [...] a federal appeals court subsequently overturned the ruling, saying the board was the creation of a federal statute and therefore it had no rights or freedoms beyond those laid out in the statute.
