Const. Haoyin Zheng is seen here walking out of the Edmonton courthouse in June. ((Janice Johnston/CBC News)) An Edmonton police officer convicted of assault should be given an 18-month conditional ...

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 ...

OTTAWA – The number of offenders who were permitted to serve their time at home rather than in prisons and jails climbed five per cent last year, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday. The increase in ...

A man who admitted to setting a fire that caused millions of dollars in damage and displaced dozens of people in White Rock, B.C., will not serve any jail time. James Adrian Dyer was given a ...

A Saskatchewan judge drew accusations of racism Thursday when he said a 12-year-old aboriginal girl may have been a willing participant or even the aggressor in sexual activity with the 26-year-old ...

B.C.'s highest court has overturned a sentencing decision that allowed a caregiver to avoid jail time for her role in the death of a developmentally disabled woman. On Tuesday, the B.C. Court of ...

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 ...

The former principal of a school for children with special needs has received a 21-month conditional sentence after pleading guilty to defrauding her employer. Linda LaRocque, 64, a former ...

Matthew Rushin pleaded guilty to his involvement in two car crashes. Matthew Rushin will soon be a free man thanks to a conditional pardon granted to him by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam last week. The ...