Coming Up Next Week

Malkiat Shoker's criminal trial from his Anti SOGI tractor ride on Nov 25th, 2023

February 23rd, 9:00AM , February 24th to February 26th, 9:30 AM 


Case: 258554 , Surrey Provincial Court Room 101


Charges:

CCC - 320.13(1) Dangerous operation of a Conveyance

CCC - 270.01(1)(a) Assault Peace Officer with a weapon

CCC - 320.17 Flight from Police Commit


February 19th, 2026

Full Episode Download - rebroadcasting some pieces due to technical issues on the Feb 12th

Korey Muskett's 3rd Appearance in the murder trial was on Feb 10th, 2026


Defense counsel Sandra Mandanici only received disclosures on Monday, Feb 9th, so this was a very short hearing. 


A Crown Counsel (a prosecutor) has not been assigned yet. 


Is this a cause for concern? Maybe a little. 

In the past, prosecutors for murder trials were appointed usually within a month as these cases were prioritized.


Muskett was arrested and charged on Dec 7th, 2025,  2 months, 12 days ago.


Why does this delay matter? The Supreme Court of Canada's 2016 Jordan decision stated that The Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees an accused's right to a speedy trial. 

The Jordan decision sets a firm time limit of 18 months between the laying of the charges and "the actual or anticipated end of a trial" in provincial courts 


As of December 2025, about 10,000 Jordan cases thrown out annually in Canada. [Paywall Bypass]


Mandachini (who previously defended Muskett in another case) has used "Jordan Applications" to get charges dismissed such as in December 2025, when she told the court in a manslaughter case that she would file an application under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in relation to “undue delay”.  Some charges were dismissed at that time. 


One point of potential concern is that Mandachini is the 2025 President of l’Association des juristes d’expression française de la Colombie-Britannique (The Association of French-Speaking Jurists of British Columbia) and has moved for bilingual trials in the past, such as the trial of Felix Emond Moro in 2024. 


While Mandachini has not suggested she will ask for a bilingual trial, if she does, there are very limited bilingual judges, court staff, etc,


According to the Government of Canada, in British Columbia "There are only three bilingual judges on the Provincial Court who are available to provide judicial and legal services throughout the province. The limited number of judges leads to adjournments and delays in the delivery of services when an accused asks to be heard in French. Some court officers are bilingual, but others, such as sheriffs, are not. The courthouses do not have bilingual staff, with the exception of the courthouse in New Westminster where there is a bilingual court clerk."


There has been growing national concern that because of bilingual staffing issues, provinces are unable to hold bilingual trials in a timely manner which leads to a higher percentage of dismissals or stayed charges as a result of a Jordan Application. 


Keep in mind there are several very legitimate reasons which could explain this delay such as the winter holiday break , but the combination of delays and Mandachini's history of bilingual trials and has us a little worried.


Gender Queeries reached out to the Attorney General’s office last week, asking about timelines for appointing prosecutors, but did not receive a response by broadcast. 


Muskett's next appearance will be March 11th, 9:30 AM Room 102, Vancouver Provincial Courthouse



Draft Hansard:

Tara Armstrong: I move that a bill intituled Gender Ideology and Child Protection Act, of which notice has been given in my name on the order paper, be introduced and read a first time now.


The purpose of this bill is to create protections for children from gender ideology in our courts, our schools and our health care.


Firstly, this bill will amend the Family Law Act and the Child, Family and Community Service Act to classify the promotion of gender ideology as a form of emotional harm. This bill will address that for too long, courts have failed to protect children from parents who prioritize ideology above the child’s well-being. In family law disputes, courts will now have to classify that gender transitions are in children’s best interests. This bill will modernize our family law to keep up with the emerging form of abuse that is child gender ideology.


Second, this bill will remove gender ideology from our education system and ban social transitions in schools. When our kids are confused and uncomfortable in their own bodies, this bill will prohibit schools from dangerously affirming identity crises rather than treating them with care and compassion. It will prohibit schools from hiding identity changes from parents, placing students in opposite-sex bathrooms, and it will remove gender ideology materials out of our libraries and classrooms.


Third, the bill will prohibit medical gender transitions of minors altogether. It will stop doctors from prescribing cross-sex hormones and performing irreversible gender surgeries.


Together we can protect British Columbia’s precious children.


Today's bill failed, 38 to 49. Video of the Hansard appears to show that the vote was on party lines. Votes will be added to our BC Trans Legislative Tracker spreadsheet once the Hansard updates their website.

On Twitter, 11:44 AM · Feb 19, 2026, Armstrong wrote "I'm elated that so many Conservative MLAs voted in favour of this bill to end child transitions." 

These votes show that eliminating trans people's access to medical care is a view held by mainstream Conservatives in BC.


Armstrong's previous attempt at a similar bill in October 2025 when she was a OneBC MLA failed 40-48.


Because the bill failed first reading, the text is not entered into the official record so we can't see what it specifically proposed, but Armstrong posted the text of her Oct 2025 bill on twitter -  it is archived here.  Celeste Trianon examined the previous bill, stating Armstrong 's bill at that time was "modeled directly off of U.S. hate group "Do No Harm"'s model legislation"


Unlike in October 2025, no MLAs spoke in objection to this bill.  As a comparison, Hansard excerpts from October can be found here. 


While Armstrong's bill appears to cover minors (under 19 in BC) her Twitter post about the Tumbler Ridge Shooting did not appear to be limited to youth, naming adults while speaking about how people "are a danger to themselves and others" this week we also saw Kevin Roberts, President of the Heritage Foundation in the USA talk publicly about how they were planning on banning all adult transition and their strategy to do it.


"One of the reasons is that we not only work in coalitions, but we often work toward an ultimate goal via incremental steps — sometimes people will call us radical incrementalists. We're willing to take a quarter of the enchilada if we can keep working there. So if that's the kind of thing that policymakers can agree on left and right, Heritage would be fully supportive of that, knowing that ultimately we have an ideal position that would be much stronger than that."


In 2024, Roberts stated on a podcast “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless — if the left allows it to be” 



February 12th, 2026

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