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 ...

Decision overturns an Ontario court ruling that found Criminal Code provisions violated Charter rights in case of Indigenous woman arguing to serve time in the community for drug trafficking Author 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 ...

Conditional sentences look at possible situations and the most common types of conditional sentences involve the word ‘if’. In this lesson, we explain the four types of conditionals. We use the zero ...

In an aggravated assault case, the British Columbia Court of Appeal replaced the custodial sentence with a conditional sentence upon ruling the Gladue principles required it to sentence the Indigenous ...