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Polygamy: It’s personal
While Canadians wait to see whether the B.C. government will ever press charges against the polygamous men in Bountiful for taking child brides and giving their daughters away as plural wives, here’s...
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Bountiful Update: A year later and still nothing to report
The B.C. attorney general’s ministry has just released a two-page press release updating the Bountiful file. Bottomline is that more than a year after appointing lawyer Peter Wilson as a special...
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Polygamous Prophet spreads the word
Warren Jeffs, the jailed pedophile prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, has published a 854-page tome (not including the pages left blank for notes). Far from...
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A new prophet in the polygamous Mormon town?
There’s a new sheriff — if not a prophet — in FLDS twin towns of Hildale/Colorado City that straddle the Utah/Arizona border, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. It’s none other than Willie Jessop, the...
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RCMP’s report on polygamous community of Bountiful goes to special prosecutor
The RCMP has completed its investigation and it’s now up to special prosecutor Peter Wilson to decide whether to lay charges in the fundamentalist Mormon community of Bountiful. My colleague Tiffany...
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Blackmore loses tax appeal
Polygamous leader Winston Blackmore has lost his appeal in Federal Tax Court and has been assessed $150,000 in penalties. Judge Diane Campbell ruled that the fundamentalist Mormon community of...
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: Polygamy hearing wraps up with no decision
CRANBROOK, B.C. — For two decades, B.C. attorneys-general and prosecutors refused to lay polygamy charges and believed, based on legal opinions, that the Criminal Code sanctions against the practice...
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: Convicted polygamist Winston Blackmore unrepentant even as he...
CRANBROOK — Expect to hear more, not less, from Winston Blackmore now that his conviction for polygamy has been officially registered in the B.C. Supreme Court. Read More
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: A call for an amnesty on future prosecutions as two...
As two convicted polygamists — 61-year-old Winston Blackmore and James Oler, 53 — prepare for their sentencing hearing Tuesday in B.C. Supreme Court in Cranbrook, there are growing concerns within the...
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: How Winston Blackmore squandered his family's inheritance
There is a good reason some of the 149 children of convicted polygamist Winston Blackmore took to online fundraising and t-shirt sales to raise money for his legal fees. Read More
View ArticleTwo men guilty in B.C. polygamy case given conditional sentences
CRANBROOK — Two men who took multiple wives — some as young as 15 — will serve no time in jail after a B.C. Supreme Court judge gave them conditional sentences on Tuesday. Read More
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: A peek into lives of two convicted polygamists
If it weren’t enough having 149 children ranging in age from one to 41, Winston Blackmore, Canada’s most prolific polygamist, has considered adopting a child to “make the number 150, which he notes is...
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: It's back to court for convicted polygamist charged with...
A convicted polygamist and former bishop of Bountiful will return to B.C. Supreme Court on April 1 to be tried for a second time for the unlawful removal of a child from Canada. Read More
View ArticleB.C. court hears religious doctrine emphasized obedience to men in...
CRANBROOK, B.C. — A British Columbia court heard evidence from three former members of a polygamous religious group in the trial of a man charged with removing a 15-year-old girl from Canada to marry a...
View ArticleChild-bride trial: Woman testifies about life in B.C. polygamist community
CRANBROOK, B.C. — A former member of a fundamentalist sect testified Friday about growing up in a British Columbia community that practises polygamy at the trial of a man charged with the alleged...
View ArticleChild-bride case: Judge reserves decision as B.C. polygamist sect trial wraps up
CRANBROOK, B.C. — A four-day gap in the whereabouts of a 15-year-old girl is enough to dispute whether she was removed from Canada in 2004 to marry a member of a fundamentalist sect in the United...
View ArticleDaphne Bramham: Mourning the death of an incorrigible advocate for equality...
Jancis Andrews first burst into my life when I was The Vancouver Sun’s editorial page editor. She demanded to know why there was a one-a-month limit for prolific letter-writers like her. Read More
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