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Winnipeg Free Press: Former prosecutor says trucker could have been arrested, RCMP disagree

November 22, 2024 —

A former Crown prosecutor says Manitoba RCMP likely could have arrested a semi-truck driver now wanted on Canada-wide warrant, but police argue it wouldn’t have stopped the man from leaving before they pressed charges.

Mounties continued the search Friday for 25-year-old Navjeet Singh, who was charged Wednesday in a fatal collision that killed Sara Unger, 35, and her eight-year-old Alexa Unger.

“I think anybody looking back on this turn of events on this case might say, ‘Well, wasn’t it foreseeable, wasn’t it predictable that this could have happened?’” said former prosecutor and assistant law professor at the University of Manitoba, Brandon Trask.

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Learning with Chief Wilton Littlechild

On Friday, December 6, 2024, members of the Manitoba Indigenous Law Students’ Association assembled for their monthly meeting with Indigenous faculty members but this time they were joined by a very special guest: Chief Wilton Littlechild, CC; KC; IPC; FP; BA, MA, LLB(Alta); LLD(Alta)(Leth)(Man). The renowned Treaty 6 lawyer, politician, athlete, Cree chief, and advocate for Indigenous rights had come to speak at the law school’s Indigenous Legal Methodologies and Perspectives class and also spend some quality time with MILSA members.

Articulating postdoctoral legal research – in three minutes

With a research paper in the works for publication in the latest issue of The Manitoba Law Journal, Dr. Illia Roskoshnyi, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law, took a chance on entering the University of Manitoba’s second annual Three Minute Postdoctoral (3MP) Competition this past September.