OTTAWA — 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 ...

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 ...

Const. Haoyin Zheng is seen here walking out of the Edmonton courthouse in June. ((Janice Johnston/CBC News)) An Edmonton police officer convicted of assault should be given an 18-month conditional ...

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 ...

As police closed in on human trafficking and drug-dealing suspect Deion ‘D’ Cuvilie in December 2017, they snared Kristos Shepherd with possessing one of the guns used to intimidate Cuvilie’s teenaged ...

A Saskatchewan judge drew accusations of racism Thursday when he said a 12-year-old aboriginal girl may have been a willing participant or even the aggressor in sexual activity with the 26-year-old ...

Two students from Leo Hayes High School in Fredericton have received conditional sentencesfor possessing an explosive substance in a May bomb scare. The device in the incident was a pipebomb about the ...

Lennerbrant said that Jafari was struck in the back of the head with a bottle but "it could not be established by whom," adding that "this has affected the assessment of the seriousness of the crime." ...

CRANBROOK, B.C. — Two men convicted of polygamy in British Columbia will not be serving time in jail after a B.C. Supreme Court judge gave them conditional sentences on Tuesday. Winston Blackmore was ...