The mother of a young man who was beheaded on a Greyhound Bus in 2008 says fighting to keep the man who killed her son off the streets has put her family in financial hardship.
Vince Li was found not criminally responsible for killing Carol de Delley's son, Tim McLean, and ended up in a mental institution, though officials have announced he would be released to a high-security group home in Winnipeg.
De Delley has objected to that and told a rally two weeks ago that she's concerned about walking downtown with Li being free.
De Delley now says her fight to keep Li locked up has meant she missed out on income and career growth and incurred more debt.
Some members of her extended family have set up a GoFundMe page to help her make some money.
At first officials on the Garden Hill First Nation thought Teresa Robinson had been the victim of a bear attack, but RCMP later determined her death was a homicide.
Last night, the Calvary Temple in Winnipeg was filled with gospel music and prayer as friends, relatives and aboriginal leaders remembered the young girl.
Perry Bellegarde, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, told her family to always remember her, saying she had touched their hearts, minds, spirits and souls.
Saskatchewan RCMP say James is facing criminal charges of repeated sexual assault that is alleged to have occurred when he was coaching the Swift Current Broncos of the Western Hockey League in the early 1990s.
The Mounties say they began an investigation after the detachment in Swift Current received a complaint from a former Broncos player in September 2013.
The case has been put over to June 19th and the judge has issued a publication ban on details that might identify the complainant.
James is currently serving out the final weeks of a sentence for sexually abusing retired NHL star Theoren Fleury and Fleury's younger cousin, Todd Holt, when they played for him with the WHL Moose Jaw Warriors.
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Thousands Evacuated Due To Alberta Wildfires
Wildfires have forced about two-thousand people from their homes in northern Alberta.
A state of emergency is in place in the Municipal District of Opportunity -- and so far, one-thousand residents from Wabasca and another thousand from the surrounding Bigstone Cree Nation have checked into reception centres.
Another blaze near Cold Lake caused Cenovus Energy and Canadian Natural Resources to pull two-thousand workers and shut down their oilsands operations on the weekend.
The closures have resulted in lost production of about 233,000 barrels of oil a day -- 10 per cent of Alberta's daily production of oilsands crude.
