The trial of the alleged murderer of a 13-year-old Burnaby teen began on Wednesday, six years after the accused was arrested. Ibrahim Ali, who is a refugee from Syria, was charged with first-degree murder.
Plus, will Canada ban Fox News? That’s what the government-funded trans rights organization Egale Canada is hoping for.
And most Albertans don’t want a provincial police force, according to a new poll – even while one Alberta city just voted to take advantage of a new government program to replace the RCMP with a local service.
These stories and more on The Daily Brief with Rachel Emmanuel and Lindsay Shepherd!
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Rachel is a seasoned political reporter who’s covered government institutions from a variety of levels. A Carleton University journalism graduate, she was a multimedia reporter for three local Niagara newspapers. Her work has been published in the Toronto Star. Rachel was the inaugural recipient of the Political Matters internship, placing her at The Globe and Mail’s parliamentary bureau. She spent three years covering the federal government for iPolitics. Rachel is the Alberta correspondent for True North based in Edmonton.
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Lindsay holds an M.A. in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory from Wilfrid Laurier University. She has been published in The Post Millennial, Maclean’s, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, and Quillette.
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