N.S. Man Who Challenged Woods Ban Says Court Ruling Is a Win for Rights and Freedoms

Jamie Sarkonak: Don't celebrate Nova Scotia court's takedown of the forest ban

Months after Premier Tim Houston of Nova Scotia locked down the province’s forests, instituting a $25,000 fine on anyone who dared to enter a wooded or boggy area that they did not personally own, he’s received his first review from the courts. It’s poor: the ban on human travel through the “woods,” the Nova Scotia Supreme Court said last Friday, was unreasonable and therefore illegal.

N.S. man who challenged woods ban says court ruling is a win for rights and freedoms

The Nova Scotia man at the centre of a Canadian Charter challenge is calling a judge’s ruling against the province’s 2025 woods ban a major win for individual rights and freedoms.

Nova Scotia's provincewide ban on entering the woods was unreasonable, court rules

A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge says the provincial government made an unreasonable decision last year when it banned most people from entering the woods to prevent wildfires during an extreme drought.

Court finds Nova Scotians have charter right to walk in the woods, government's $25,000 fines 'unreasonable'

A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has found the provincial government infringed upon charter rights with its woods travel ban last summer.