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 ...

A Calgary man has received a two-year conditional sentence from an Ontario judge, after admitting to fraud. The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) announced on Tuesday that Michael Hughes has pled ...

Friesen, 68, was sentenced Thursday to a six-month jail term that he will serve in the community after a jury found him ...

A Salvadoran court on Wednesday sentenced an environmental lawyer and a community leader to three years in prison for ...

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 ...

Family and friends of Jody Rolleman and Marvin Elgersma called the conditional sentence Balwinder Biring was given for causing the crash that killed the two men “a holiday.” “The loss is just so great ...

Decision overturns an Ontario court ruling that found Criminal Code provisions violated Charter rights in case of Indigenous woman arguing to serve time in the community for drug trafficking Author of ...

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 ...