Tag Archives: Justice

CALGARY - The union representing Canadian correctional officers says a program making clean needles available to inmates at a number of prisons across the country won't be expanding to new instit...

MONTREAL - After a week of strong urging from governments that people should keep apart to prevent the spread of COVID-19, provincial leaders - and their police forces - have stopped as...

EDMONTON - An Alberta woman has pleaded guilty in the death of her husband, who had been missing for six years before police found his body in a slough. Helen Naslund, who is 58, pleade...

OTTAWA - A Manitoba man's right to a speedy trial was not breached when the trial judge took nine months to deliberate and issue his verdict, the Supreme Court of Canada said Friday. The judges were u...

TORONTO - Jurors began their deliberations Friday in the trial of a man accused of sexually assaulting and strangling a young woman just hours after they met. The jury deciding the fate of Kalen ...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal in a long-running case over whether the billionaire founder of Apotex deprived his cousins of their rightful share of the generic pharmac...

TORONTO - The COVID-19 outbreak coupled with fears about more restrictive gun legislation has fuelled a spike in firearm and ammunition sales, several dealers said this week. Buyers, they sa...

INNISFAIL, Alta. - A federal prison in central Alberta has been locked down as a precaution as some inmates who showed flu-like symptoms await test results for COVID-19. Correctional Service...

EDMONTON - A judge has delivered a legal victory to a mother who fled to Alberta from France with her two children over allegations her ex-husband sexually abused the youngsters. The Cr...

TORONTO - A Toronto man set on having sex "stalked and isolated" a young woman he met outside a club and lured her to a dark alley, sexually assaulting and strangling her when she spurned his adv...