A Grand Manan fisherman has been given the province’s first conditional sentence for aggravated assault since federal rules were loosened two years ago, according to a judge. Jordan Michael Kevin ...

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 ...

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 ...