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A jury of whose peers?

The jury chose door number three — acquittal. From 4,000 kilometres and six provinces away, I find that incomprehensible. But that, at the end of the day, is not the key issue here.

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Let’s start with this. Any jury might have acquitted Gerald Stanley, the 56-year-old white Saskatchewan farmer who shot and killed Colten Boushie, a 22-year-old Indigenous man, on Stanley’s farm in August 2016. There are two competing narratives about what happened, and even more about the meaning of what happened. The Crown charged Stanley with second-degree…

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