
OTTAWA – A British Columbia judge is warning that what he calls a “tsunami” of Indigenous identity fraud cases is coming to Canadian courts.
Provincial Court Judge David Patterson says that’s driven by the “desire” of non-Indigenous people to access what they deem to be benefits of identifying as Indigenous.
He says judges must be “alive to the issue” and require proof that ensures an offender is entitled to be sentenced as an Indigenous person.










A double murderer does not need to develop insight into what makes him a risk to others before being released on full parole, the Parole Board of Canada says in a written explanation of its decision last Friday in the case of 
