An Edmonton teacher has been handed a conditional discharge after admitting to assaulting a Grade 3 student. Matthew Mercer-Deadman, 31, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a single count of assault related ...
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 ...
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 ...