Criminal

  • June 30, 2026

    P.E.I. schools adopt new sexual misconduct policy — as called for in report

    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.

  • June 30, 2026

    Annual defence report says federal agency issued 4K foreign intel briefs, issued 97K alerts

    The Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE) has released its 2025-2026 annual report, noting it produced nearly 4,000 foreign intelligence reports to alert the federal government to threats.

  • June 30, 2026

    Clare Jennings appointed provincial court judge in B.C.

    The Government of British Columbia has appointed Clare Jennings as a provincial court judge, effective July 17, 2026.

  • June 30, 2026

    Ontario names 27 new justices of the peace

    The Ontario government has appointed 27 new justices of the peace to the Ontario Court of Justice, effective July 8, 2026.

  • June 29, 2026

    G7 privacy chiefs push safer digital spaces for children

    Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne and his G7 Data Protection and Privacy Authorities Roundtable counterparts gathered last week for their sixth annual meeting, which focused on the protection of children’s privacy online.

  • June 29, 2026

    King Charles and the tax protesters: Why every argument fails in Canadian courts

    The voluntary nature of King Charles’s tax payments has already attracted misuse by tax protesters, who argue by analogy that if taxation is voluntary for the monarch, it must be voluntary for all. This argument has no validity under Canadian law. It is, however, only the latest iteration of a broader family of pseudolegal commercial arguments that Canadian courts have been rejecting for decades.

  • June 29, 2026

    U.S. birthright citizenship: The meaning of ‘and subject to the jurisdiction thereof’

    In July 1868, when the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment was adopted into the Constitution of the United States, it declared: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” While initially incorporated into the Constitution to overturn the Scott v. Sandford, 1856 U.S. LEXIS 472 decision and guarantee citizenship to formerly enslaved individuals, the Citizenship Clause has since become the foundation of birthright citizenship in the United States.

  • June 29, 2026

    Banishment from reserve not legal punishment for arson: B.C. Court of Appeal

    Many non-Indigenous Canadians are unaware that within the Indigenous community, many are dissatisfied with their leadership. Some are so jaded that they suspect their leaders are corrupt. This unacknowledged tension may be at the heart of a charge laid against Eddy Walter Cliffe, otherwise known as Hə' Yəł' Kən. He appealed a 21-month jail sentence imposed after he pleaded guilty to arson causing damage to property.

  • June 29, 2026

    Ontario Court of Appeal rejects DNA sample order for discharged offender

    Citing a “meaningful legislative difference” between the treatment and retention of DNA samples taken from convicted offenders and discharged offenders under the DNA Identification Act, the Court of Appeal for Ontario unanimously upheld a lower court appeal decision, rejecting arguments by the Crown to force a discharged offender to provide DNA samples.

  • June 29, 2026

    Need for trauma-informed intakes and the practice roadmap

    While the Ahluwalia decision solidified a groundbreaking civil framework for addressing coercive control, Parliament simultaneously built a parallel carceral one (Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia, 2026 SCC 16). The federal intention behind Bill C-16 is well-intentioned — aiming to intervene early, recognize psychological containment as violence, and treat coercive control as a precursor to lethal escalation.