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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former Christian Centre Academy principal Duff Friesen is to serve a six-month conditional sentence in the community and cannot be in a position of power to those under 16.

John Olubobokun has received an 18-month conditional sentence for hitting students with a paddle while he was the director of a private Christian school in Saskatoon’s north end. A 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 ...

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 ...

A packed courtroom gathered Thursday to hear a former Saskatoon Christian school director receive a conditional sentence after he was found guilty this past summer on nine counts of assault. John ...

Family and friends of Jody Rolleman and Marvin Elgersma called the conditional sentence Balwinder Biring was given for causing the crash that killed the two men “a holiday.” “The loss is just so great ...

John Olubobokun has received an 18-month conditional sentence for hitting students with a paddle while he was the director of a private Christian school in Saskatoon’s north end. Judge Lisa Watson ...