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 ...

The parliamentary budget officer is estimating that changing the rules for conditional sentences could cost taxpayers an extra $145 million because of increased parole reviews and prosecutions ...

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 ...

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James Morton, a once successful lawyer, professor, author and mentor, received a six-month conditional sentence Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to bigamy and fraud. The judge cited Morton’s ...

Tamara Lich is not going to jail. Nor is her Freedom Convoy sidekick Chris Barber. But they will be under house arrest. And not just for a couple of weeks but a whole year. Ontario Court Justice ...