During sentencing submissions, the Crown had asked for an eight month sentence followed by probation for the former principal. Friesen’s lawyer had asked for a conditional discharge that would have ...

A Prince County motorcyclist has avoided jail time for dangerous driving causing bodily harm. Taylor Edward Cooke, 24, appeared in P.E.I. Supreme Court in Slemon Park Thursday for sentencing. Justice ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an aggravated assault case, the British Columbia Court of Appeal replaced the custodial sentence with a conditional sentence upon ruling the Gladue principles required it to sentence the Indigenous ...

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 ...

KAMLOOPS — A 43-year-old Kamloops woman who admitted to setting two fires has been sentenced. Cornish pleaded guilty to two arsons near the southern Interior community of Lac Le Jeune and records show ...