Tag Archives: Justice

OTTAWA - Women who enrolled in the RCMP's job-sharing program while raising young children were unfairly denied the chance to bolster their pensions, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. In a 6-3 de...

TORONTO - A man who died five years ago was the likely killer of a nine-year-old girl in a 1984 murder that sparked widespread revulsion and led to a notorious wrongful conviction, Toronto police said...

OTTAWA - Combating online hate is one of the main efforts getting a financial boost from Ottawa's anti-racism strategy, with more than a dozen projects receiving federal funding Thursday. Diversity Mi...

OTTAWA - A court martial involving a Canadian Armed Forces officer accused of sexual assault is one of several trials in limbo over another challenge to the constitutionality of the military justice s...

MONTREAL - Evidence at the rape trial of Gilbert Rozon concluded Thursday as the former entertainment mogul once again denied under cross-examination that he ever assaulted the complainant.  "It ...

FREDERICTON - Jurors in the trial of accused mass murderer Matthew Raymond have been shown more images and messages from the suspect's computer hard drives that focused on demons and conspiracy theori...

TORONTO - A retired Appeal Court justice has won rare permission to appear in court as a lawyer after he was able to show exceptional circumstances were in play. In allowing Harry LaForme to act in la...

First Nations leaders and the family of an Indigenous teen who was found dead in a group home in British Columbia last month are calling for a public inquiry into his death.  An aunt of the 17-ye...

OTTAWA - The Chinese ambassador to Canada is warning the Trudeau government not to grant asylum to Hong Kong residents fleeing a widely criticized national security law imposed by Beijing. Ambassador ...

DIGBY, N.S. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to do more than send tweets to settle an increasingly violent dispute over an Indigenous-led lobster fishery in Nova Scotia, a First Nations chief sai...