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 ...

OTTAWA — 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 ...

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Mandatory minimums do not allow for conditional sentences. The nine justices heard arguments from legal counsels for the federal government and provinces of British Columbia and Saskatchewan about why ...

Stephen Harper does not like conditional sentencing. "Unlike the Opposition parties," the prime minister declared at a 2008 election rally in Saskatoon, "we don't believe house arrest is a suitable ...

CRANBROOK, B.C. — Two men convicted of polygamy in British Columbia will not be serving time in jail after a B.C. Supreme Court judge gave them conditional sentences on Tuesday. Winston Blackmore was ...

OTTAWA – The number of offenders who were permitted to serve their time at home rather than in prisons and jails climbed five per cent last year, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday. The increase in ...