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 ...

A law that bars a judge from imposing a conditional sentence for certain offences was struck down as unconstitutional on Friday in a decision likely to find its way to the country’s top court. In a ...

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 ...

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 ...

“To do so fairly, Nunavut judges must apply Gladue,” she said. “Yet our court’s ability to do this is often undermined by limits to the conditional sentencing regime that are on issue of this appeal.

A “stash” woman who allowed her home to become a flophouse and storage space for more than $10,000 in cocaine has received a break in the form of a conditional sentence. As we navigate through ...