Three-year pilot project will train people to write Gladue reports for Indigenous offenders
The dangerous offender designation represents a reasonable way for society to keep people safe
The cellblock is still being used by courthouse staff, including court sheriffs
Police should have power to issue tougher roadside punishment for buzzed drivers
CYFN hopes the training will be ongoing help build a reserve of Gladue writers in the Yukon
Suit alleges government violated the rights of hundreds of Indigenous children from 1950 to 1993
‘It wasn’t an upbringing. It was an existence he had’
‘It’s something that you carry inside you for a long time. It doesn’t go away’
‘Hope is not a method’
‘It is the system that is failing the individuals’
Yukon’s Legal Profession Act is slated to be updated in the fall