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Manslaughter charge in death of chef stayed because conviction unlikely: Crown

A manslaughter charge has been stayed against a man arrested in the death of a Ste. Anne chef because prosecutors did not believe they could prove the accused wasn’t acting in self-defence, a court heard Wednesday.

Jeff Wyness, 46, was arrested May 12, 10 days after 49-year-old Cameron Huley was fatally assaulted outside a home in the RM of Ste. Anne.

“Following a thorough review of all the evidence, including witness statements, forensic evidence and the applicable law regarding the defence of another person, the Crown has concluded there is no longer a reasonable likelihood of conviction on the charge before the court,” prosecutor Keri Anderson told provincial court Judge Helen Krahn.

Steinbach RCMP were called to a home just after 11:30 p.m. and found Huley suffering from serious injuries. He died hours later in hospital.

Shoal Lake No. 40 First Nation, Ottawa reach $17.45-M treaty settlement

Shoal Lake No. 40 First Nation and the federal government have resolved a long-running treaty land entitlement claim and have agreed on a $17.45 million settlement.

The claim relates to seven islands in Indian Bay on Shoal Lake — known as the Garden Islands — which were promised to Shoal Lake No. 40 First Nation under Treaty 3 but were never set aside as reserve land, a Thursday news release said.

The First Nation filed the claim in 1991.

“This claim has been outstanding for many years, and we are very pleased to have reached settlement on this important matter,” Shoal Lake Chief Herb Green said in the release. “We continue to uphold our shared connections to these islands, and the settlement of this Claim is an important part of Shoal Lake No. 40 history and legacy.”

Cockerill’s already successful year keeps getting better

Life is pretty rich these days for Aaron Cockerill.

Resumé fib creates unnecessary distraction

Here’s the thing about closets: if they’re of the literal variety — in other words, those tiny rooms in your home in which clothing, linens and assorted household items are stored — they can usually be securely locked so the contents therein are protected.

But if they’re the figurative sort of “closet” in which the embarrassing secrets from your past are concealed, there is very little chance in the current era of cyber-snoop scrutiny that those skeletons will remain behind closed doors.

The discomfiting truth of this 21st-century reality was brought into focus — again — when it was revealed that Conservative party Leader Andrew Scheer was less than truthful in his career resumé’s description of private-sector work experience he accumulated before entering politics.

The profile posted on his party’s official website stated that “Before entering public life, Andrew worked in the private sector as an insurance broker.” The trouble is, he did not. When confronted with fact-checked inconsistencies between the resumé and reality, Mr. Scheer was forced to admit he was never actually a credentialed broker in Saskatchewan, but instead worked in a support role in an insurance office while “the licensed brokers finalized all the transactions.”