July 03, 2026
The fatal stabbing of 20-year-old Justin Turnbull-Greenwood on a Windsor, Ont., sidewalk in October 2019 left a young family shattered and a community searching for answers. The Windsor Star reported that after hearing emotional victim impact statements describing lives “ruined forever,” Ontario Superior Court Justice Kirk Munroe sentenced Mustafa Al-Qaysi to the mandatory life sentence for second-degree murder and ordered that he serve 15 years before becoming eligible for parole.
July 03, 2026
The International Bar Association’s (IBA) recent report marks a meaningful demographic milestone: women now form a majority of the Canadian legal profession. Combined with the historic female majority on the Supreme Court of Canada, it signals progress that deserves recognition.
July 03, 2026
Appeal by the Crown against Herman’s acquittal of second-degree murder; appeal by Herman against his conviction and sentence for manslaughter. Herman was charged with the first-degree murder of the victim, who he was in an intimate relationship with. At trial, Herman put forward two defences: self-defence and provocation.
July 03, 2026
Eleven years ago, elder law scholar Israel Doron described the movement for a United Nations convention on the rights of older persons as a journey to Ithaka, borrowing from C.P. Cavafy’s famous poem. The destination matters, but so too does the path toward it — one marked by setbacks, detours and incremental progress. At the time, an international treaty remained largely aspirational. Yet this year, the United Nations took a historic step forward when a working group began the drafting process. After years of debate about whether older persons required a dedicated human rights instrument, the conversation has shifted to what it might contain.
July 02, 2026
Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette has appointed Eli Kano as a judge of the Court of Quebec and Amélie Roy as a justice of the peace magistrate, the province has announced.
July 02, 2026
The Supreme Court of Canada’s newest judge says his key areas of legal expertise are constitutional and criminal law, including the rules of evidence and procedure, though he has also presided over many civil and administrative law cases in his generalist trial court. Glenn Joyal, a former federal and Manitoba prosecutor and the longtime chief justice of the Manitoba Court of King’s Bench, was elevated by the prime minister to the top court on June 30, succeeding Supreme Court Justice Sheilah Martin of Alberta, the highly respected constitutional and criminal law litigator, academic and judge who retired from the bench May 30.
July 02, 2026
A recent case before the Manitoba Court of Appeal will likely infuriate those who expect our courts to be tough on crime. The facts of the original conviction are horrendous and are set out here to allow the reader to understand the emotional factors at play for appeal court judges.
July 02, 2026
There is no quick way to make a buck. Not even on the internet. Last year, some person at Canada’s financial market regulator must have registered for a social media account and blew a gasket watching one of the million videos on “How-to-make-a million-dollars-investing-in-the-market-without-breaking-a-sweat.”
June 30, 2026
The ranks of Canada’s bench and bar numbered slightly more women than men last year, yet many female jurists still reported gender-based and sexual harassment at work and don’t “feel seen as equals to their male colleagues,” according to a new report from the International Bar Association (IBA). The IBA’s investigation into the state of gender parity in Canada’s legal profession reported on June 30 that women make up 53 per cent of lawyers overall — with half of these working in senior positions as lawyers and partners, among the organizations surveyed.
June 30, 2026
Public schools in P.E.I. have adopted a new sexual misconduct policy in a bid to better protect students by focusing on prevention, early intervention and a uniform complaints process.