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 ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two major figures of the 2022 "Freedom Convoy," have been handed ...

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 man who fired a shotgun out his bedroom window during an argument with his wife was handed a one-year conditional sentence Thursday afternoon after a judge warned him of the dangerous turn the day ...

RICHMOND, BC, Dec. 23, 2024 /CNW/ - The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) announced today that Balkar Bhullar of Richmond, British Columbia, was sentenced on December 19, 2024, in the Provincial Court of ...

A Grand Manan fisherman has been given the province’s first conditional sentence for aggravated assault since federal rules were loosened two years ago, according to a judge. Jordan Michael Kevin ...