Canada, Canada, we stand guardedly with an eye on you. First up (at left) is Balfour Der, one of several Alberta lawyers, who objects to federal government plans to eliminate peremptory challenges at jury selection to ensure more Indigenous jurors. It is quite hard to recruit them. Der and colleagues say this will just mean the first 12 candidates to show up will form the jury. At centre is Kayla Hounsell of the CBC in the Maritimes. She takes a run with a local cop to see how new legislation permitting arbitrary breath tests will work. Finally, Nick Troller of Winnipeg is still trying to get the Manitoba highway authority to return his personalized license plates ASIMIL8 (assimilate). He says it’s just a play on a Star Trek series but the NDP Indigenous complainant says he’s expunging her culture.
