Bill Graveland
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Alberta’s top court upholds convictions of leaders of the COVID-19 blockade (opens the original)
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Alberta’s top court has upheld the convictions of two leaders of the COVID-19 border blockade at Coutts, Alta. Chris Carbert and Anthony Olienick were charged in 2022 and convicted by a jury in 2024. They were sentenced to six-and-a-half years for mischief and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. Jurors found them not guilty on a charge of conspiring to kill RCMP officers. Lawyers for the two men appealed both the convictions and sentence, saying the trial judge made irreconcilable er
Trial begins for Alberta RCMP officer accused of helping Rwanda (opens the original)
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A Mountie accused of misusing the police database to help a foreign country did nothing of the sort and is, in fact, a “Canadian success story,” his lawyer told court Monday. RCMP Const. Eli Ndatuje faces charges under the Criminal Code and the Security of Information Act for alleged illegal use of the police database. But his lawyer, Robb Beeman, told the court in his opening statement his client was simply trying to help out a friend on a missing person’s case in Canada. Beeman said the 39-yea
Alberta man gets 12-year sentence for sexual assaults on vulnerable women (opens the original)
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A judge sentenced a man to 12 years in prison Thursday for sexually assaulting three vulnerable women at a rural home near Calgary. Richard Robert Mantha, 62, was convicted of six offences, including drugging one of his victims, that happened between 2019 and 2023. He was also found guilty of uttering threats against a fourth woman. Court heard most of the victims worked in the sex trade. Provincial court Justice Judith Shriar said Mantha showed disrespect by laughing as one of the women fled th
Zelensky arrives in Calgary ahead of Carney meeting (opens the original)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky landed in Calgary on Wednesday night ahead of a scheduled meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney. They are set to meet in the city Thursday morning, and Zelensky is to later address a cabinet meeting in the nearby mountain resort town of Banff, Alta. Carney said the visit will focus on the countries’ shared priorities, including deepening defence, economic and energy co-operation. “It will also address the human cost of Russia’s war of aggression against U
Woman dead after officer-involved shooting in Calgary (opens the original)
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A woman was shot and killed by police Wednesday in Calgary when officers responded to a welfare check. Police were called to a home in the southeastern Legacy neighbourhood just before 1:30 a.m. for a mental health call from a woman. Chief Katie McLellan said officers had encountered the woman several times in recent months. About an hour later, police said the woman came out of the house with a weapon. Police have not said what the weapon was. The situation then escalated, police said, and an o
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