News Items tag as: Sydney Leer

Judge decries role as 'mental health worker' in sentencing teen arsonist
August 14, 2017 - 5:22 PM

PENTICTON - Judges routinely cite the need to denounce crime and criminals, but today a Penticton provincial court judge reserved his denunciation for a criminal justice system that forces him to be a mental health worker.
New mental health assessment ordered for Penticton woman accused of arson
June 12, 2017 - 5:30 PM

PENTICTON - Delays continue to mount in the sentencing of a woman charged with setting fire to a Penticton townhouse complex last year.
Concerns about federal prison program prompts delay in Penticton arsonist's sentencing
June 07, 2017 - 8:00 PM

PENTICTON - The sentencing of a Penticton teenager on two counts of arson was adjourned this morning.
Defence lawyer removes himself from Penticton arson case
May 05, 2017 - 5:16 PM

PENTICTON - The sentencing hearing for a woman accused of setting fire to a four-unit townhouse complex in Penticton took a big step backward today.
Lack of report delays sentencing hearing for woman accused of arson
February 06, 2017 - 11:03 AM

'TO SAY IT'S A MATTER OF A LACK OF RESOURCES IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE'
Woman accused of arson in Penticton townhouse fire to undergo psychiatric evaluation
October 17, 2016 - 12:17 PM

PENTICTON - The woman accused of arson in connection with a townhouse complex fire in Penticton last week appeared in court today for a bail hearing and was remanded for a psychiatric examination.
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THOMPSON: Junk drawers: No method to my indefensible organizational madness
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Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Advocacy group calls on Vancouver to 'embrace' cannabis tourism after 4-20 'debacle'
VANCOUVER - The head of a B.C. cannabis growers group says the City of Vancouver's choice to discourage instead of sanction a marijuana celebration over the weekend was a costly "missed opportunity." The BC Craft Farmers Co-Op

Tranquille developer blames province after multiple ALC denials
The province's Agricultural Land Commission has heard multiple pleas from the owner of a historic Kamloops property who wants to build an agricultural suburb on the massive site. Each time Ignition Developments goes to the commission, i

Judge decries role as 'mental health worker' in sentencing teen arsonist