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 ...

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 Cape Breton man who stole a municipal generator has received a six-month conditional sentence order to be served in the ...

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 ...

The first time he was convicted of child porn-related offences, the punishment was a conditional sentence. The second time, he was sent to jail for two years less a day with intensive mental health ...