July 28, 2026
Multiple criminal charges have been laid against a business owner and manager after a Competition Bureau investigation alleged they used “misleading representations to suggest that Canadians could quickly and easily obtain or renew Canadian passports online.”
July 28, 2026
Very recently, in my hometown of Cobourg, Ont., I witnessed police constables evicting several people who had established an encampment in our local dog park.
July 28, 2026
Appeal by appellant from sentence following his conviction for aggravated assault of a police officer. The appellant attacked a police officer with a knife during an unprovoked incident, causing serious physical and psychological injuries.
July 27, 2026
The federal government has invested more than $1 million to support gun and gang violence prevention in British Columbia.
July 27, 2026
Jurors are fallible. Seemingly minor judicial instructions can be misunderstood, leading to a wrongful conviction. Jurors are ill-equipped to weigh medical evidence and are untrained in evaluating evidence at trial.
July 24, 2026
The intersection of psychology and criminal law has seldom posed greater challenges than in cases involving recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse.
July 23, 2026
In response to chronic theft, vandalism and “street disorder” in Lower Mainland, B.C., the provincial government has launched the Chronic Property Offending Intervention Initiative (C-POII). The program will monitor repeat offenders and “disrupt street disorder and retail crime in communities” throughout the province.
July 23, 2026
The Northwest Territories has new legislation to better support victims of family violence, including laws that formally recognize stalking, give people greater ability to protect themselves and allow victims to sue perpetrators.
July 23, 2026
Manitoba’s Appeal Court has intervened in a sentencing judge’s decision to hand a convicted murderer an additional 33 months for drug and weapons offences in prison — on top of the life sentence he is already serving. The Appeal Court’s recent ruling in R. v Marjanovic, 2026 MBCA 61 involves Matthew Marjanovic, who in late 2019 was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 18 years.
July 23, 2026
The accelerating development of artificial intelligence, both domestically and internationally, provides important lessons for the responsible implementation of predictive policing systems within criminal justice frameworks. This is particularly evident in the governance challenges associated with algorithmic policing technologies, including regulatory lag, surveillance arbitration, symbolic compliance and weak oversight.