By Paul Everest, Osoyoos Times
With more than 5,000 kilometres separating them, Anarchist Mountain and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are two places that are unlikely to share a connection.
But with the lawyer of Omar Khadr building a house on the mountain, a new link between the mountain and the bay has been established.
Dennis Edney bought property in the Falcon Place area of the mountain’s Regal Ridge development four years ago and is currently building a home there.
The Scottish-born lawyer lives in Edmonton and for seven years has represented Khadr, a 24-year-old Canadian who pleaded guilty in October to the murder of an American soldier as well as four other terrorism-related charges.
Edney plans to move here once the home is completed by the end of next year.
“Our intention is to have this as essentially a full-time home but we’ll always have a home in Edmonton because that’s where our children are,” he said. “We love the area and we’re excited about moving there.”
Edney said he bought the property “by chance” while vacationing in the area four years ago.
“I had come down to Osoyoos with my wife and my youngest boy because we decided to take some time out. I’d been away from home for a number of months at trial,” he said.
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