Equating time served in the community with time spent in jail opens up the door to absurd possibilities within immigration law, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday. In an unanimous decision, ...

The federal government doesn’t have to try to reduce the disproportionate incarceration rates of Indigenous peoples when it passes crime laws, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. The court split ...

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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 ...

Calling Duff Arthur Friesen’s moral culpability “high,” a Saskatoon judge ruled the former Christian school principal will serve a community sentence after being convicted of assault with a weapon.

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 ...

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two prominent figures in the 2022 convoy protests, have been given conditional sentences after they were found guilty of mischief in April. Addressing a packed courtroom ...

A former administrator of a controversial private Christian school in Saskatoon will serve another conditional sentence after pleading guilty to five counts of assault with a weapon. John Olubobokun, ...