A Canadian court has stayed all charges against an Indian-origin priest on the second day of his trial, after a nine-year-old girl testified against him in a Winnipeg courtroom, according to CBC News. Arul Savari was accused of sexually assaulting the girl in Little Grand Rapids First Nation last year. On the second day of his trial, Crown attorney Danielle …
Tehran accuses Ottawa of violating international obligations to uphold the ‘principle of sovereign immunity’. Iran has filed a complaint against Canada at the United Nations’s top court, accusing the North American country of violating its “international obligations” by allowing people to seek civil damages against Tehran. The same judge — Justice Edward Belobaba of Ontario’s Superior Court — had labelled …
A Canadian federal court has upheld a human rights tribunal decision ordering Ottawa to compensate Indigenous children and their families who faced discrimination in the provision of government services, the latest development in a years-long fight by Indigenous rights advocates. The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled in 2016 that the federal government had discriminated in the provision of child and …
Michael Spavor, a businessman, was jailed in December 2018 and tried for spying in March this year. A Chinese court is expected to rule as early as Wednesday in the case of imprisoned Canadian Michael Spavor, a Canadian source directly familiar with the matter told the Reuters news agency. Chinese authorities arrested Spavor, a businessman, in December 2018, days after …
