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 ...

The federal government doesn’t have to try to reduce the disproportionate incarceration rates of Indigenous peoples when it passes crime laws, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. The court split ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...