Former RCMP officer Mike Ferguson has been given a conditional sentence, meaning he will not spend any more time in jail for the shooting death of a prisoner. Court of Queen's Bench Justice Ged Hawco ...
An Edmonton police officer was given a conditional discharge and 12 months' probation Thursday for a Dec. 2008 assault on a handcuffed man in the back of a police car. "I'm satisfied a discharge would ...
A Swift Current man was sentenced last week on charges stemming from an incident last summer involving an assault and theft ...
Nathaniel White was sentenced to four years in prison for drug and weapon offences.
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 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 ...
Conditional sentences look at possible situations and the most common types of conditional sentences involve the word ‘if’. In this lesson, we explain the four types of conditionals. We use the zero ...