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.
July 22, 2026
“Coercive control” is rapidly becoming one of the defining concepts of modern Canadian family law. Courts must now expand their focus of family violence and must consider whether one party exerted coercive control over the other party during the relationship.
July 22, 2026
For decades, Canadian courts have struggled to find an effective remedy when police fail to meet their constitutional disclosure obligations. Adjournments reward delay. Excluding evidence may distort the truth-finding process. Allowing proceedings to remain entirely closed allows serious offenders to escape conviction. An overlooked alternative — a substantial costs award against the Crown — may ultimately prove to be the most effective means of encouraging proper police conduct while preserving the integrity of criminal trials.
July 22, 2026
Public service delivery strikes are routinely framed in popular discourse as localized, binary disputes between individual employers and their workforces. Yet, when these disruptions hit independent delivery networks, the stalled bargaining tables reflect a much broader systemic crisis.
July 21, 2026
Ontario’s top court has taken the unusual step of overturning an acquittal in the case of a man who was found not guilty of intimidation for his role in the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa.
July 21, 2026
When facing a criminal charge, the person representing us as a lawyer is fundamentally important. For most of us, our lawyer is our guide to the arcane processes and rules of the justice system. She or he tells us what our choices are and has a huge influence on what we decide to do — which in most cases is to plead guilty. More than that, lawyers are often a main source of emotional support for those facing the overwhelming power of the criminal justice system and the huge anxiety that comes with the destruction of our life that being arrested represents.
July 21, 2026
The results of a recent study by an Ontario university and a non-profit organization have been published, and the conclusions are startling: the use of AI in family law disputes could produce legally accurate and fair outcomes at a fraction of the cost usually incurred — in most cases, in less than three minutes.