Tag Archives: Justice

OTTAWA - A leading gun-control group is urging MPs to vote against the Liberal government's new firearms bill, saying it is too weak to salvage. The bill would implement a program to buy back recently...

MONTREAL - The Crown has laid a second-degree murder charge against a Montreal man whose girlfriend died following an alleged assault last weekend.The upgraded charges against Brandon McIntyre came du...

FERNIE, B.C. - A Canadian coal-mining company faces the largest fine imposed under the Fisheries Act after pleading guilty to contaminating waterways in southeastern British Columbia. Teck Coal, a sub...

The race and age of jurors has a noticeable effect on trial verdicts, American studies indicate, but Canada has no data allowing similar research here. Experts in Canada said it's imperative to gather...

A lack of data on race, gender or age makes it impossible to know whether systemic jury bias plays a role in who ends up behind bars in Canada - and who doesn't. Experts say the information gap is cru...

Undocumented workers in Canada fear that getting vaccinated could mean being arrested if someone reports them to police or immigration authorities because of their lack of proper identification, say a...

HALIFAX - A police watchdog in British Columbia will investigate whether RCMP in Nova Scotia broke the law when evidence was destroyed in the case of Glen Assoun, who was wrongfully convicted of murde...

Montreal police say a suspect is to appear in court Friday in connection with a January attack on one of their officers that saw a wrongfully accused Black man arrested and held for six days. Ali Ngar...

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for Canada's attorney general says there's no evidence that the RCMP shared the serial numbers with U.S. investigators of the devices of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. John Gibb-C...

OTTAWA - Military ombudsman Greg Lick issued a strong rebuke of Canada's defence minister on Thursday, after Harjit Sajjan suggested Lick's predecessor could have done more with an allegation of sexua...