June 12, 2026
In a novel and potentially far-reaching constitutional judgment, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled 6-3 that the 2019 appointment of a unilingual lieutenant-governor in Canada’s only officially bilingual province infringed the Charter’s s. 16(2) linguistic protections for New Brunswick’s francophone minority.
June 12, 2026
When a survivor of sexual violence steps forward to engage with the criminal justice system, they do so under the comforting myth of state neutrality — the belief that the law exists to heal a breach, discover the truth and deliver accountability. Yet, for decades, feminist legal scholarship and the lived realities of survivors have told a radically different story.
June 12, 2026
There was a late-night gunfight outside Karma Nightclub in St. Catharines, Ont., on Sept. 29, 2019. The Crown had to prove that Jamar Stephens was one of the shooters. It did. A jury convicted Stephens on a multi-count indictment charging him with various offences arising from the shooting.
June 11, 2026
The Supreme Court of Canada says it will continue to provide the bar, litigants and the public with all its usual services from its historic courthouse in Ottawa while its judges and registry staff undertake a phased move to the court’s temporary facilities across the street during the months of July and August.
June 11, 2026
Elon Musk’s xAI and social media platform X violated federal privacy law by launching Grok’s image-generation tool without adequate safeguards, which allowed users to create and share non-consensual sexualized deepfakes, Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne said on June 11.
June 11, 2026
The Federal Court has set aside a decision of an independent chairperson at Stony Mountain Institution in Manitoba that found an inmate guilty of a disciplinary offence.
June 11, 2026
Restitution orders are often imposed to require a convicted offender to compensate a victim for the victim’s direct, quantifiable loss caused by the crime. Restitution is often considered a rehabilitative sentencing tool, providing the victim with a swifter, more direct path to compensation rather than relying on a civil judgment.
June 11, 2026
A recent judicial ruling recognizing homelessness as an analogous ground of discrimination under s. 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has come under fire as “judicial activism.” (Waterloo (Regional Municipality) v. Dugas, 2026 ONSC 2971.)
June 11, 2026
Appeal by Stark against his convictions for unlawful confinement and sexual assault. Stark confined the complainant in his residence and sexually assaulted her. She testified that he forced her to consume drugs, which rendered her unconscious. The complainant said she escaped from the suite Stark was renting because he left the door unlocked.
June 10, 2026
The Supreme Court’s controversial Jordan decision, which has sparked the dismissal of thousands of cases due to unconstitutional trial delay, is still good law, but stays of proceedings are not a cure for undue systemic trial delay, Canada’s top judge says. “One stay of proceedings is too many,” Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Richard Wagner stressed at his annual press conference in Ottawa June 9.