A London police officer convicted of failing to provide the necessaries of life in the 2016 custody death of an Indigenous woman has avoided jail time. Const. Nicholas Doering on Friday was given an ...
The Supreme Court of Canada is pictured under fall coloured leaves in Ottawa, on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the ...
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 ...
Stephen Harper does not like conditional sentencing. "Unlike the Opposition parties," the prime minister declared at a 2008 election rally in Saskatoon, "we don't believe house arrest is a suitable ...
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 ...