Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Jana G. Pruden, Carrie Tait
Publication Date: January 9, 2025 - 21:31
Coutts border blockade members await sentencing, Crown seeks prison time
January 9, 2025
An Alberta judge is considering whether two men should serve time in jail for their involvement in a two-week highway blockade at the Canada-U.S. border near Coutts, Alta., in early 2022.Marco Van Huigenbos, George Janzen and Alex Van Herk were convicted of mischief over $5,000 by a jury in Lethbridge last April. On Thursday, the Crown argued Mr. Van Huigenbos should be sentenced to nine months in jail, and Mr. Janzen to a term of six months.
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