Environmental activist Betty Krawczyk has lost her last chance to appeal her conviction and sentence for blocking construction of a B.C. highway.
The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear the case brought by the nearly 82-year-old B.C. great-grandmother.
The court does not release its reasons for dismissal.
Krawczyk was hoping to appeal both her criminal contempt conviction and 10 month sentence for standing in the way of logging crews in West Vancouver as they began work on the Sea-to-Sky Highway expansion in 2006.
She wanted Canada's highest court to consider what she believed was an abuse of process when her case was raised from civil to criminal contempt.
Her conviction for blocking the highway, which was being upgraded in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics, was the latest in a string of convictions and jail terms that began with her arrest for blockading logging trucks in Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island in the early 1990s.
