A London police officer convicted of failing to provide the necessaries of life in the 2016 custody death of an Indigenous woman has avoided jail time. Const. Nicholas Doering on Friday was given an ...

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 ...

The judge said four months incarcerated would be appropriate, but went with a conditional sentence due to COVID-19. (David Bell/CBC) A man who threw mucus at a police officer will serve a four-month ...

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 ...

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 ...

A former pastor has been handed a three-month conditional sentence followed by 18 months of probation after being convicted of sexually assaulting a member of his congregation almost eight years ago.

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 ...