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 decision, ...

A P.E.I. man who breached a conditional sentence in a sexual assault matter has been ordered to serve the remaining time in jail. Livingstone pleaded guilty to the charge of indictable sexual assault.

A Prince Edward Island resident has been handed an 18-month conditional sentence, followed by three years of probation, for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...