January 23, 2019 | 6 min read
INNOCENCE CANADA PRESS RELEASE – January 23, 2019 WADE SKIFFINGTON – BAIL GRANTED DURING MINISTER OF JUSTICE’S INVESTIGATION OF HIS MURDER CONVICTION Vancouver, BC: In a dramatic breakthrough in one of Canada’s most notorious wrongful...
December 3, 2018 | 2 min read
On November 27, 2018 the Manitoba Court of Appeal released its decision quashing Frank Ostrowski’s 1987 first-degree murder conviction. The court found that it would be unfair to order a second trial after so long...
October 16, 2018 | 3 min read
On October 2, 2018, O’Neil Blackett joined the Innocence Canada family as the 22nd person to be exonerated with the support of Innocence Canada. O’Neil’s day in court fell on another important day for the wrongly...
July 10, 2018 | 3 min read
Author: Win Wahrer A ceremony was held on June 21, 2018 to open a superior court on the Wagmatcook Reserve. The court is located inside the Wagmatcook Cultural and Heritage Centre in Wagmatcook, Nova Scotia....
December 21, 2017 | 1 min read
Innocence Canada (formerly The Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted or AIDWYC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to identifying, advocating for, and exonerating individuals convicted of a crime that they did not commit and...