For the first time, Canada has officially acknowledged that banned extremist groups such as Babbar Khalsa International and the International Sikh Youth Federation remain active in promoting separatism and violence.
This follows a raft of reports of unsafe practices in the early childhood sector, including a grandparent taking the wrong child home at pickup, and a child running onto a busy road while in care.
The politics of division misses what makes Australia genuinely exceptional: our capacity to unite diverse peoples around shared values while maintaining our distinctive national culture and character.
In sentencing, Justice Beale said he had no hesitation in finding Patterson’s offending falls into the “worst category” of murder and attempted murder.
The 18-month investigation, known as Project Bay, uncovered an alleged cross-border trafficking operation that used commercial trucking routes to move massive quantities of cocaine, methamphetamine and opium between the United States and Canada.