OK, these are probably the biggest non-pandemic-related stories in Canadian news right now.
Earlier this week, 29-year-old Regis Korchinski-Paquet died under suspicious circumstances. She had epilepsy, and her family called police for help in getting her to CAMH. While the police were talking to her, her mother, and her brother in the hallway of their apartment building, she said she had to use the washroom. Police officers accompanied her into their 24th-floor apartment, but would not allow other family members to enter. Shortly thereafter, her mother claimed she heard Regis call for help, then silence. She died after falling from the apartment's balcony. The family accused the police, and the police told local news channel CP24 not to come to the scene because it was a suicide.
SIU is now investigating, and police say they cannot comment further while the investigation is underway. There were protests and marches in her name held in Toronto, and other cities, over the weekend.
Meng Wanzhou, CFO of Huawei, was arrested in British Columbia at the end of 2018 on a request from the U.S. She is charged in the U.S. for fraud, for her role in Huawei lying to a bank about their ownership of a company that violated U.S. sanctions against Iran. The case is now working its way through the extradition process. The court heard arguments recently where her lawyers asked for the extradition case to be dismissed due to the concept of double criminality, which means that in order for extradiction to proceed, the offence has to be considered a crime in both countries. The argument was that, since Canada has no sanctions against Iran, then the bank could not have suffered any loss here due to the misrepresentation, and therefore there would be no fraud. However, this week, the court ruled that since "Canada's law of fraud looks beyond international boundaries to encompass all the relevant details that make up the factual matrix, including foreign laws that may give meaning to some of the facts", then the fraud would still be considered a crime in Canada, and the extradition trial can proceed. (The picture used for the av was taken when Meng posed for "celebratory" pictures outside the courthouse... the weekend *before* the decision was handed down.)
