The parliamentary budget officer is estimating that changing the rules for conditional sentences could cost taxpayers an extra $145 million because of increased parole reviews and prosecutions ...

The federal government has stepped up its assault on conditional sentencing laws, saying that people who commit serious crimes like arson or kidnapping must not be permitted to serve sentences from ...

People convicted of arson, kidnapping and other serious crimes will not be able to serve conditional sentences if legislation introduced by the justice minister on Monday is passed. "These amendments ...

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 ...

Lennerbrant said that Jafari was struck in the back of the head with a bottle but "it could not be established by whom," adding that "this has affected the assessment of the seriousness of the crime." ...

As police closed in on human trafficking and drug-dealing suspect Deion ‘D’ Cuvilie in December 2017, they snared Kristos Shepherd with possessing one of the guns used to intimidate Cuvilie’s teenaged ...

A 65-year-old businessman with health issues and no prior criminal record has been sentenced to 21 months in jail for the illegal possession of a loaded handgun, stored in a dresser in the bedroom of ...

Alberta is moving ahead with plans to monitor people serving conditional sentences with electronic ankle bracelets, says a spokesman for the Solicitor General's Department. The program is expected to ...

A 19-year-old Melfort, Sask. man has been sentenced after he bludgeoned a dog with a hammer in December. Calyb Hoffman was handed a conditional sentence of six months to be served in the community on ...