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B.C. Court of Appeal orders new aggravated assault trial over CT scans that were used by mistake

A CT scan showing he'd broken an eye socket and his nose was crucial to Kenneth Paul Burgar's defence against a charge of aggravated assault.

Those injuries, the Metro Vancouver man argued, were proof that he'd been sucker punched, and was acting in self-defence when he retaliated.

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'There's enough people that are strongly committed to this movement,' says professor

Protest organizers against the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project say they believe the number of people arrested for civil disobedience will rise or even surpass the number arrested fighting to stop logging in Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island more than two decades ago.

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