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The BC Prosecution Service says counsel for the Richmond Centre MLA entered the not-guilty plea last Thursday, choosing a jury trial.

Terry was found dead in her home on a First Nation reserve near Agassiz, B.C., in 2024, in a case of alleged intimate partner violence.

The study released Wednesday 'examines trends in firearm-related intimate partner violence, including characteristics of incidents, victims, and accused persons.'

The Conservative bill essentially leapfrogged the Liberal government's own intimate partner violence bill that includes many of the same measures as 'Bailey's Law.'

Bill C-225, known as Bailey's Law, received royal assent on Wednesday, one day after passing third reading in the Senate.

The chair of the monitoring committee said 30 recommendations still need to be addressed. Advocates say more needs to be done to deal with the culture of gender-based violence.

MacLeod, 37, said the recording was posted online 13 years ago and never generated any money.

Women's advocates say a public apology from Energy Minister Marco MacLeod does not go far enough after decade-old lyrics drew renewed scrutiny online.

Forty-nine per cent were 'victimized at least once by the same person later accused of their homicide, a proportion at least six times greater than other homicide victims.'

Mayor Tom Dyas has written to the federal health minister asking that the facility’s 2027 renewal be denied.

The independent committee released its third and final annual report Monday, monitoring the progress towards 130 recommendations released in a 2023 public inquiry.

The party's caucus has been thinned to 30, amid differences over its ideology, and questions about its direction under both its former leader and new leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay

The 37-year-old's bail was rescinded on Friday after he was arrested and charged with the murder. The accused remains in custody and will return to court on July 31.

A Nova Scotian woman says the justice system has failed after she was the victim of intimate partner violence. She's speaking out again on her abuser's sentence as well.

A 22-year-old man is accused of strangling 23-year-old Damanpreet Kaur to death in what the Edmonton Police Service said is an intimate partner homicide case. 

The police service said Tuesday that it had completed its investigation, concluding the two boys, age seven and 12, were killed by their father.

A Whitby man convicted of murdering his wife after she ended their relationship could spend up to 20 years behind bars before becoming eligible for parole.

Cameron Compton was charged Monday with the second-degree murder of Sherry Shelley near Lantzville and interfering with human remains in Nanaimo from Nov. 13 to Nov. 14, 2025.

The creation of the new role comes after years of calls by First Nations leaders for more Indigenous representation in police oversight work. 

Among 2025 homicide victims, 175 women and girls were killed, 67 fewer than in 2024, while the number of men and boys decreased by 53, equalling 494 victims.