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A man due to face a retrial in the meningitis death of his son later this year is scheduled as a speaker at a health event in Calgary this weekend.

David Stephan is listed as a speaker on brain and thyroid health and on brain injury and recovery at the Calgary Health Show, taking place at the BMO Centre.

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Stephan and his wife Collet were found guilty in 2016 of failing to provide the necessaries of life to their 19-month-old son Ezekiel. Last May, the Supreme Court of Canada overturned their convictions and ordered a new trial for the Stephans after lawyers argued contrary evidence from medical experts led the trial judge to issue a misleading charge and did not “give the jury the tools that they needed to decide this case properly.”

Their trial in Lethbridge heard evidence that the mother and father had treated Ezekiel with natural remedies and smoothies instead of taking him to a doctor. The child died in hospital in 2012.