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The conservative backlash is growing to Friday’s Supreme Court of Canada ruling throwing out mandatory minimum sentences for child pornography crimes.
“This ruling raises serious questions about whether the punishments will truly reflect the severity of these offences and the pain they inflict,” Nova Scotia Justice Minister Scott Armstrong said in a statement on Saturday.
“Child pornography offences are not abstract or victimless. As a former school principal, I have seen first-hand the devastating harm that sexual exploitation of children can cause,’ he said. “Mandatory minimum...
November 2, 2025 - 09:24 | National Post Staff | National Post
The conservative backlash is growing to Friday’s Supreme Court of Canada ruling throwing out mandatory minimum sentences for child pornography crimes.
“This ruling raises serious questions about whether the punishments will truly reflect the severity of these offences and the pain they inflict,” Nova Scotia Justice Minister Scott Armstrong said in a statement on Saturday.
“Child pornography offences are not abstract or victimless. As a former school principal, I have seen first-hand the devastating harm that sexual exploitation of children can cause,’ he said. “Mandatory minimum...
November 2, 2025 - 09:24 | National Post Staff | National Post
Calgarians like their mayors young and trail-blazing.
Jeromy Farkas, 39, was officially sworn in as Calgary’s 38th mayor this week, alongside 14 city councillors, 10 of whom are rookies. Former mayor Dave Bronconnier assumed the mantle at age 39; Naheed Nenshi was 38.
In 2010, Nenshi was widely hailed as the first Muslim mayor of a big North American city. In 2021, Jyoti Gondek was elected as the city’s first female mayor. Farkas identifies as bisexual, making him Calgary’s first openly LGBTQ mayor.
His worship is still beaming when we talk; he’s been mayor for less than 24...
November 2, 2025 - 09:00 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
Environmental groups are calling on the B.C. government to raise industrial water rates as drought deepens and demand for freshwater rises in some areas of the province.
November 2, 2025 - 09:00 | | CBC News - Canada
November 2, 2025 - 08:48 | | CBC News - Canada
If he was American there would be a movie because Matthew Begbie had hero written all over him. He stood six-five, and when on a horse with his handlebar moustache and van dyke, he looked even bigger. Cutting a commanding figure, he tamed the Old West.
A circuit judge who brought bandits and outlaws to justice, he travelled the highways, biways and rivers of British Columbia before it joined Confederation. He went on horse, on foot, or by canoe, carriage or steamship, and carried out the law in a log cabin, under an oak tree, or in the open wilderness.
Begbie befriended the Native...
November 2, 2025 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
