bountiful

Prosecutors in British Columbia are taking another go at prosecuting Bountiful leaders for polygamy.

The Canada Revenue Agency succeeds where the police and province failed against Winston Blackmore

Court orders embattled leader to pay $150,000 in penalties

Carolyn Jessop in conversation with Luiza Ch. Savage

Will it be the end of marriage as we know it?

“If you are married and minding your own business, looking after your family and the two of you are virtuous people, should some other virtuous woman(I will add who is old enough to make her own choices in life)want to join your family, and all are agreed, then whose business is that.  No one is hurt, no society is hurt,no family is broken, no vows are violated. Celestial implies virtuous.”

Is British Columbia finally ready to take on the polygamists of Bountiful?

Ooh. So BC’s Attorney General Wally Oppal may have finally mustered up the courage to give Canada’s anti-polygamy law a  long overdue road test:
Followers say Winston Blackmore, the leader of the controversial polygamous sect in Bountiful, B.C., has been arrested.

Details were not immediately available but B.C. Attorney General Wally Oppal and the RCMP have scheduled a news conference this afternoon in Vancouver.

WEEKEND ROUNDUP

No, British Columbians, you haven’t gone back in time. Your attorney-general, Wally Oppal, is indeed appointing a third special prosecutor to examine the Bountiful/polygamy file in hopes he’ll finally get the opinion he  wants—which is (a) that Section 293 of the Criminal Code, which prohibits polygamy, would withstand a Charter challenge and (b) that charges should be laid against one, some or all of the polygamists in Bountiful.

Must-reads: Daphne Bramham on polygamy; Jeffrey Simpson on the refugee system; Susan Riley and Chantal Hébert on l’affaire Bernier-Couillard; Rosie DiManno on the Afghan food shortage; Colby Cosh on uniting the Alberta left.

Never let it be said that this is not a blog of its word.