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Reports that British Columbia resident Norman Porter was sentenced to a year in prison after faking a building-location certificate. How Porter built a garage partially on a neighbor's property; Statement that Porter was found guilty of defrauding land, forging a surveyor's certificate and willfully removing a boundary marker; Plans of Porter's lawyer to appeal the conviction on the grounds that the encroachment was based on an old fenceline.

Reports that British Columbia resident Norman Porter was sentenced to a year in prison after faking a building-location certificate. How Porter built a garage partially on a neighbor's property; Statement that Porter was found guilty of defrauding land, forging a surveyor's certificate and willfully removing a boundary marker; Plans of Porter's lawyer to appeal the conviction on the grounds that the encroachment was based on an old fenceline.

Reports that British Columbia resident Norman Porter was sentenced to a year in prison after faking a building-location certificate. How Porter built a garage partially on a neighbor's property; Statement that Porter was found guilty of defrauding land, forging a surveyor's certificate and willfully removing a boundary marker; Plans of Porter's lawyer to appeal the conviction on the grounds that the encroachment was based on an old fenceline.

Describes the criminal activity and deportation to Scotland of Michael Holmes. Holmes' criminal record; Decision on October 8, 1997 by the Federal Court of Canada that declaring Holmes dangerous was perverse due to his being schizophrenic; Holmes' appeal of his deportation; Reaction from the Schizophrenia Society of Alberta; Holmes never attempting to become a Canadian citizen; Other Scots facing deportation.

Examines the case of Michael Holmes, a Scottish immigrant to Canada who was deported under the minister's opinion process, a provision in the federal Immigration Act which allows the deportation of immigrants deemed dangerous to the public. How Holmes came to Canada; His criminal record in Canada; His convictions of impaired driving causing death; His diagnosis of schizophrenia, which friends and family say caused his actions; How the minister's opinion process came about.