Category Archives: Justice

Updated: Missing man found

May 9, 2022 Roy Hales

Update 8:30 AM, Monday, May 9: Quadra Island RCMP say Leyland David Dowling-Ryerson has been found alive and well. They cannot give any more details due to privacy reasons.

Quadra Island RCMP no longer need the public’s assistance in locating Leyland David Dowling-Ryerson. He has been found.

Prior to that he was last seen on Cortes Island a week ago. He was last heard from early yesterday morning (May 7) and may have driven to North Vancouver in a black 2002 Volkswagen Golf with BC license plate JN803G.

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Justice

RCMP reports from Cortes and Quadra during the week ending Sunday April 24

April 28, 2022 Roy Hales

There was one Cortes and four Quadra Island reports in this week’s email from the Quadra RCMP detachment.

None of these involved an arrest, fine or any police action beyond a warning. In one case, a group of youth were commended as ‘good citizens.’

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Justice, Rivers & Oceans

Federal court rules DFO breached salmon farmers rights to procedural fairness

April 26, 2022 Roy Hales

On Friday, April 22, a federal court ruled that Former Federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Bernadette Jordan breached the rights of B.C. salmon farmers to procedural fairness when she ordered them to phase out operations in the Discovery Islands by June 2022.

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Health, Justice

Is Canada’s Charter of Rights in Jeopardy? Folk U Radio @89.5

April 18, 2022 Manda Aufochs Gillespie

In this Folk U Radio show Former Newfoundland Premier, the Honourable Brian Peckford, gives part history lesson and part current update on the state of Canadian civic life on Folk U Radio. Friday April 15th at 1 p.m.

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