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 Friday ruled 5-4 that banning conditional sentences for some offenses is constitutional. The case was brought by 20-year-old Cheyenne Sharma, who was arrested in a Toronto ...

A Grand Manan fisherman has been given the province’s first conditional sentence for aggravated assault since federal rules were loosened two years ago, according to a judge. Jordan Michael Kevin ...

RICHMOND, BC, Dec. 23, 2024 /CNW/ - The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) announced today that Balkar Bhullar of Richmond, British Columbia, was sentenced on December 19, 2024, in the Provincial Court of ...

The Supreme Court of Canada will examine the constitutionality of a law that prevented a judge from allowing an offender to avoid jail by imposing a conditional sentence for certain crimes. The top ...