All mandatory minimum penalties should be repealed, not just a select few: Senators

Some Senators would like to see the government go much further to repeal all mandatory minimum penalties—including those for first-degree murder.

Senator Kim Pate, who has spent her life advocating for the rights of incarcerated people, pictured visiting a segregation unit and listening to a man being held there at the Millhaven Institute, a federal penitentiary, in Bath, Ont. Photograph courtesy of the Senate of Canada

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BY CHELSEA NASH

April 4, 2022

The weekend before Helen shot and killed her husband at their home in Beaver County, southeast of Edmonton, he got drunk and ordered her and their son around with a gun. On the following Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011, Miles Naslund threw a number of wrenches at Helen in an angry tirade. On Sunday, he tras...

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