The parliamentary budget officer is estimating that changing the rules for conditional sentences could cost taxpayers an extra $145 million because of increased parole reviews and prosecutions ...

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that sentencing an Indigenous person to a jail term instead of a conditional sentence does not violate the Constitution in cases of crimes involving maximum ...

Alberta is moving ahead with plans to monitor people serving conditional sentences with electronic ankle bracelets, says a spokesman for the Solicitor General's Department. The program is expected to ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. OTTAWA — The Supreme Court says conditional sentences don’t count as jail time when it comes to deciding ...

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 ...

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, key organizers of the 2022 trucker convoy demonstrations in Ottawa, have both received 18-month conditional sentences on mischief charges, bringing an end to a legal saga ...

OTTAWA — "Freedom Convoy" leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were both given 18-month conditional sentences Tuesday for their roles in the protest that blockaded downtown Ottawa for several weeks.

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two major figures of the 2022 "Freedom Convoy," have been handed conditional sentences and spared further jail time. Barber was found guilty of mischief and counselling ...

A Vancouver man who sold cannabis from a tent in Vancouver’s Robson Square has been given a nine-month conditional sentence with exceptions to allow him to operate his business. Chol Garang Majur, 25, ...

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, two prominent figures in the 2022 convoy protests, have been given conditional sentences after they were found guilty of mischief in April. Addressing a packed courtroom ...