A majority of the Supreme Court of Canada has found that Criminal Code provisions prohibiting conditional sentences for certain offences did not infringe an Indigenous woman’s equality rights, because ...

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that sentencing an Indigenous person to a jail term instead of a conditional sentence does not violate the Constitution in cases of crimes involving maximum ...

During sentencing submissions, the Crown had asked for an eight month sentence followed by probation for the former principal. Friesen’s lawyer had asked for a conditional discharge that would have ...

A Calgary man has received a two-year conditional sentence from an Ontario judge, after admitting to fraud. The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) announced on Tuesday that Michael Hughes has pled ...

Decision overturns an Ontario court ruling that found Criminal Code provisions violated Charter rights in case of Indigenous woman arguing to serve time in the community for drug trafficking Author of ...

One of the things we should avoid as a communicator is to get an unsavory reputation for declaring everything we say as absolute truth. To be a credible, we need a well-developed capacity to ...

Const. Haoyin Zheng is seen here walking out of the Edmonton courthouse in June. ((Janice Johnston/CBC News)) An Edmonton police officer convicted of assault should be given an 18-month conditional ...

In an aggravated assault case, the British Columbia Court of Appeal replaced the custodial sentence with a conditional sentence upon ruling the Gladue principles required it to sentence the Indigenous ...