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Gordeyville and Area Community Members Group v Alberta (Environment and Parks), 2026 ABCA 85

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March 24, 2026

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[1] These appeals, brought by the Director of the Industrial Charges Unit, Public Land Disposition Management Section, Alberta Environment and Parks (the “Director”) and the Gordeyville and Area Community Members Group (the “Community Members Group”), are moot. While a court may depart from the usual practice and exercise its discretion to hear a case despite its mootness, we decline to do so. We advised counsel of this decision at the conclusion of the hearing. These are our reasons for that decision.

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R v Walker, 2026 ABCA 84

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March 24, 2026

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[1] The appellant Cody Walker was charged with sexually assaulting the complainant. The trial judge rejected the appellant’s pre-trial application to adduce evidence of his alleged prior sexual activity with the complainant. The appellant and complainant agreed there was sexual contact between them on the offence date, but gave differing evidence on whether the complainant consented. The trial judge found the complainant credible and the appellant not credible. The appellant was convicted. He appeals on three grounds.

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Carter v Edmonton (Police Service), 2026 ABCA 86

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March 23, 2026

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[1] The Chief of the Edmonton Police Service relieved the appellant Scott Carter from his duties as a police officer without pay. He did so on the basis that he had reasonable grounds to suspect the appellant had violated section 5 of the Police Service Regulation, Alta Reg 356 / 1990 [Regulation] and had committed criminal offences, and because exceptional circumstances existed in relation to that conduct. The Edmonton Police Commission confirmed the Chief’s decision as reasonable, and the appellant’s application for judicial review of the Commission’s decision was dismissed: Abbott v Chief of Police, 2025 ABKB 2 [Abbott]. The appellant appeals the dismissal of his application for judicial review.

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Bowyer v Bowyer, 2026 ABCA 83

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March 20, 2026

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[1] The parties have been engaged in divorce and family property proceedings in the Court of King’s Bench since February 2025. In June 2025, a chambers judge issued an interim without prejudice order, granting exclusive possession of the family home and spousal support to the respondent, pending a special application scheduled for December 2025. The appellant appeals the interim without prejudice order. As we advised the parties at the hearing, the appeal is dismissed.

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R. v. Singer, 2026 SCC 8

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March 20, 2026

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Date: March 20, 2026

On Appeal from the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan

Constitutional law — Charter of Rights — Search and seizure — Reasonable expectation of privacy — Implied licence doctrine — Ancillary powers doctrine — Remedy — Exclusion of evidence — Police discovering truck matching description given in impaired driving complaint running in residential driveway — Police entering driveway, observing accused asleep or unconscious in driver’s seat, and receiving no response after knocking on truck window — Police opening truck door, smelling alcohol and arresting accused — Accused arguing at trial that right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure violated — Whether police conducted search — If so, whether search was unreasonable — If so, whether evidence obtained should be excluded — Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, ss. 8, 24(2).

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