Criminal
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October 09, 2025
Manitoba premier digs in on legislature remarks on bail system
Despite a scolding from two prominent lawyers’ groups, Manitoba’s premier is standing by remarks he made in the legislature about an ongoing court case as part of his criticism of the bail system.
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October 10, 2025
Self-represented litigant loses bid to include trial transcripts
It is common knowledge that when a person testifies, the witness promises to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That is because the judge, the decision-maker, needs the whole truth to render a just decision. What happens when an appeals court faces a situation where the “whole” truth is not put before it?
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October 10, 2025
Marineland belugas deserve legal protection, not posturing and politics
In 2019, Canada enacted groundbreaking federal law banning the capture and breeding of whales, dolphins and porpoises for entertainment, the Ending the Captivity of Whales and Dolphins Act, also known as the “Free Willy” bill, whereby Canadian facilities are not allowed to hold, breed or import whales and dolphins.
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October 10, 2025
APPEALS - Misapprehension of or failure to consider evidence - Miscarriage of justice - Unreasonable verdict
Appeal by appellant from his convictions. The appellant was convicted of robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery, assault causing bodily harm, and disguise with intent to commit an indictable offence.
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October 09, 2025
New federal Bill C-12 features immigration reforms carved out from contentious ‘strong borders’ bill
The federal government has removed about half of its controversial 140-page omnibus “strong borders” bill (C-2) and inserted excised measures into a newly introduced 70-page “immigration and borders” bill (C-12), which proposes many of the same immigration changes that critics had called on Ottawa to scrap.
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October 09, 2025
B.C. to modernize consumer protection laws on credit fraud
British Columbia is introducing amendments to improve consumer protection laws, allowing consumers to benefit from stronger tools for protection against credit-related fraud and to “support confident financial decision-making.”
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October 08, 2025
Saskatchewan’s top court examines ‘causation’ in manslaughter case
A Saskatchewan man acquitted of manslaughter after he allegedly killed a friend by hitting him on the head with a “metal object” now faces a new trial.
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October 09, 2025
The case for human-centred elder justice
On a good day, 83-year-old Beatrice can still make a cup of tea and find her way to the park. But when she tries to fill out a digital form, the steps feel endless and confusing. For many people with dementia, even small hurdles can make it hard to get the help they need.
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October 09, 2025
Theme of World Day Against Death Penalty 2025: Use of death penalty as tool to oppress
This Friday marks the 23rd World Day Against the Death Penalty. On this day, abolitionists around the world call on governments that retain the practice to abolish capital punishment. We also use the day to draw attention to individual cases of those facing execution and plead for clemency, commutation or a reconsideration of the case altogether. A theme this year in the cases we are highlighting is the use of the death penalty as a tool to oppress.
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October 08, 2025
Fraser calls provinces’ demand to scrap Ottawa’s SCC arguments on notwithstanding clause ‘untenable’
Attorney General of Canada Sean Fraser has pushed back against the demands of five premiers that Ottawa should drop its novel arguments at the Supreme Court that there are substantive constraints on governments’ powers to invoke the Charter’s s. 33 “notwithstanding” clause — arguments that those five provinces contend “represent a complete disavowal of the constitutional bargain that brought the Charter into being” in 1982.