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 ...
The Supreme Court of Canada is pictured under fall coloured leaves in Ottawa, on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the ...
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 ...
Decision overturns an Ontario court ruling that found Criminal Code provisions violated Charter rights in case of Indigenous woman arguing to serve time in the community for drug trafficking Author of ...