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During his tenure as judge, Ramsay on multiple occasions picked up aboriginal girls as young as twelve and sexually assaulted them. He insisted on not using a condom, and on one occasion, when the girl resisted, he became enraged and smashed her head against the dashboard of his car. Several of these
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275:"Former judge David Ramsay dies in jail"
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211:R. V. Ramsay, 13 BCAC 176.
111:"David William Ramsay, BC"
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26:, in 1943 and moved to
935:Caledonia land dispute
789:Women's Memorial March
549:Healthcare inequality
437:High Arctic relocation
36:University of Victoria
634:Jean Virginia Sampare
619:Tammy Lamondin-Gagnon
89:on January 19, 2008.
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24:Halifax, Nova Scotia
17:David William Ramsay
930:Burnt Church Crisis
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629:Helen Betty Osborne
528:Criminal sentencing
502:Structural violence
349:Settler colonialism
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460:Stereotypes
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1118:Categories
1066:This River
950:Oka Crisis
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370:Indian Act
341:Background
285:2015-03-08
231:2018-04-07
198:2018-04-07
167:Canlii.org
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93:References
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905:Land Back
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1029:Pig Girl
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