Tag Archives: justice

BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - A former police chief in Nova Scotia has been sentenced to 15 months in jail and one year of probation after being convicted last October of sexually exploiting a teen wi...

TORONTO - A group of Canadian women who suffered ill-effects from implantation of a medical device called transvaginal mesh will receive a total of $21.5 million in compensation, recent court records ...

ST-JEROME, Que. - The suspect charged with first-degree murder in the violent death of a 13-year-old Quebec girl will return to court today. Francois Senecal, 51, is ...

OTTAWA - RCMP Staff Sgt. Hugh Stewart did not mince words. "You have one opportunity to move up that road and clear it off or you will be arrested," he told protesters at the 1997 Asia-Pacific Economi...

TORONTO - The trial of a teen accused of sexually assaulting two students at a prestigious Toronto high school is expected to get underway today. The former student of St. Michael's College Schoo...

CALGARY - A Calgary judge has acquitted a former university student on charges connected to a drug-fuelled attack on a professor. Queen's Bench Justice Michele Hollins determined that the man, who had...

OTTAWA - The case against Canada's chief military judge is back in limbo after a civilian judge refused to order one military judge to appoint another military judge to preside over the court martial ...

OTTAWA - Veterans Affairs Canada is opening a new office intended to better serve women and those with specific needs stemming from their sexual orientation or gender identity. The office is aime...

EDMONTON - An Alberta MP says 13 Canadians detained in Ethiopia have received bail. Heather McPherson, the NDP's international development critic and a former executive director of the Alber...

TORONTO - A jailhouse informant with a "huge criminal record" spanning decades testified Tuesday that Kalen Schlatter confessed to strangling a young woman with a scarf when she refused...