Via Canadian Press

The Alberta Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that restricts where Métis people can hunt in the province of Alberta.

Garry Hirsekorn was convicted in 2010 of hunting out of season after he shot a mule deer in 2007 near the Cypress Hills area in southeast Alberta.

Hirsekorn's lawyers had argued that he was exercising his Aboriginal rights as a Métis. The province only recognizes those rights around several northern Alberta Métis settlements.