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 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 ...

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 ...

A 51-year-old man who triggered a lockdown at three eastern P.E.I. health-care facilities has been handed a six-month ...

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two major figures of the 2022 "Freedom Convoy," have been handed conditional sentences and spared further jail time. Barber was found guilty of mischief and counselling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The office of Quebec's Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions (DPCP) has said it will appeal a Quebec court ruling that ...

A group of bills standardizing mandatory minimum prison terms and repealing conditional release provisions was debated by a Missouri Senate committee on Wednesday.

A woman was given a conditional sentence on Monday after pleading guilty to her role in a series of mail thefts. As we navigate through unprecedented times, our journalists are working harder than ...