Supreme Court of British Columbia

It says, this is not the first time, this is a Black Press story, it says, this is not the first time a Lankford chief building inspector has been accused of wrongdoing.

It says a 2016 decision by the city's chief building inspector to issue a building permit to a residential complex in the 600 block of Hoffman Avenue, it says, without input from a licensed architect was declared, quote, unreasonable, close quote, and not in compliance with the Architects Act by the BC Supreme Court.

It says the city was approached for an interview.

This is Black Press reporting as of November.

We're just gonna cover off one more item from yesterday.

Uh, a major court ruling by the BC Supreme Court reported first by the Vancouver Sun in which the court found the BC government has been illegally compelling Canadian doctors who went to medical school abroad to temporarily work in rural and remote communities of the province.

The court finding that BC lacks the authority to force internationally trained doctors who are graduating from school to work in specific communities for two to three years in order to get a residency here.

It's called a Return of Service Obligation.

Thanks, Anne.

A BC Supreme Court judge has certified a proposed class action lawsuit against Air Canada over its treatment of passengers who use wheelchairs.

Lead plaintiff Rodney Hodgins, who has spastic cerebral palsy, claims he had to physically drag himself down an aisle after staff didn't help him off a flight in 2023.

The suit alleges Air Canada breached contractual obligations to help passengers who rely on mobility aids.

Gitsela Nation and another challenged that system.

In 2023, the BC Supreme Court condu- concluded that registering mineral claims triggered that constitutional duty to consult, and that the automated system breached that duty.

But the judge rejected the broader argument that DRIPA independently empowered courts to decide whether provincial laws were consistent with UNDRIP.

That point is really important.

The Cowichan title case began in 2014, five years before DRIPA.

The claim was grounded in Section 35 and decades of Aboriginal title law.

In 2025, the BC Supreme Court recognized Aboriginal title over lands connected to the historic village of Tlohtaness in Richmond and found certain government-held fee simple interests defective and invalid.

DRIPA did not create the title claim, the legal test, or the remedy.

He was pulled over on the highway in British Columbia.

And then a year later, he was sued by the British Columbia Supreme Court in the British...

Columbia Supreme Court by Noah Christian Morse, who alleged that Kroger punched him in the mouth outside a nightclub in a fight that occurred two years before the lawsuit.

So it took him two years to be like, I'm going to sue that Chad Kroger.

Now, the Peterson case is not a one-off, by the way.

Still with the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, the organization also recently announced that the Supreme Court of British Columbia has granted four organizations permission to intervene in Nurse Amy Ham's appeal of disciplinary findings against her over Ham's off-duty expression about sex and gender.

As interveners, the organizations can make arguments to the court without being parties to the case, bringing competing perspectives to an appeal that could help determine when professional regulators may punish Canadians for expression outside the workplace.

In a decision released on September 8th, 2026, Justice Jay Hughes granted intervener status to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia, West Coast Leaf, Egale Canada, and the Association for Reformed Political Action Canada.

Yeah, I know, what a concept.

The Justice Centre notes the outcome could have implications well beyond Amy Hamm and the nursing profession.

It should be noted that Hamm's appeal is scheduled to be heard in the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Vancouver this November.

Keep your fingers crossed that the BC Supremes will weigh in on the side of common sense versus wokeism.