Months before the February 10, 2026, Tumbler Ridge mass shooting, a warning surfaced inside OpenAI. According to B.C.’s lawsuit, the company’s monitoring system flagged the future shooter’s ChatGPT account, and safety reviewers recommended notifying police. The account was banned, but no warning reached the RCMP before the attack that killed eight victims. OpenAI has acknowledged banning the account in June 2025. Its explanation, reported by CBC News, was that the activity di

Most explanations of wrongful convictions point to failures of evidence: a mistaken eyewitness, a false confession, faulty forensic science, a false accusation, an overstretched defence lawyer, or investigators who lock onto a theory and never let go. Each of these matters. But beneath many of them sits something more basic: the way the justice system approaches conflict itself. The criminal justice system is adversarial by design. Two sides compete, challenge one another’s a

On June 18, 2026, Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, received Royal Assent and came into force one month later. The legislation significantly expands the Criminal Code’s response to hate at a time when police-reported hate crimes have risen sharply across Canada. The urgency is understandable. But while the Combatting Hate Act strengthens the criminal law’s response to hate, Canada risks relying too heavily on punishment while investing too little in preventing hate from esca

In a single month this spring, Surrey lost three teenagers to gun violence. Two young men, aged just 16 and 18, were shot and killed in an underground parking garage in the Newton neighbourhood on May 10th in what police describe as a targeted shooting tied to B.C.’s gang conflict. Three weeks later, another 18-year-old was killed in a suspected gang shooting, the city’s 13th homicide of 2026. The instinctive response, more officers, more enforcement, more money for policing,

The Trump administration’s recent Department of Justice (DOJ) report, Restoring and Strengthening the Federal Death Penalty, presents itself as an effort to expand the federal government’s use of capital punishment, advocating broader execution methods, fewer procedural barriers and faster prosecutions. But the report proposes something more consequential than the executions themselves: reshaping the relationship between federal executions and state law. That distinction matt