The Supreme Court of Canada Friday ruled 5-4 that banning conditional sentences for some offenses is constitutional. The case was brought by 20-year-old Cheyenne Sharma, who was arrested in a Toronto ...

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 ...

Judge Amy Sakalauskas granted counsel’s joint recommendation of a conditional sentence order for a woman who defrauded two ...

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 ...

TORONTO — 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 ...

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 ...