A 65-year-old businessman with health issues and no prior criminal record has been sentenced to 21 months in jail for the illegal possession of a loaded handgun, stored in a dresser in the bedroom of ...

Conditional sentences look at possible situations and the most common types of conditional sentences involve the word ‘if’. In this lesson, we explain the four types of conditionals. We use the zero ...

A Cape Breton man who stole a municipal generator has received a six-month conditional sentence order to be served in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Conditional sentences express a connection between two actions or states. One thing happens because of another. These connections can be general, specific, likely, unlikely, real or imagined. Although ...