September 14, 2026
Justice Mary Lou Benotto’s recent review of Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) contains disturbing accounts of antisemitism. Jewish students, faculty and staff describe harassment, concealing their identity and feeling unsafe. Those accounts should be taken seriously, and TMU has an obligation to address them.
September 14, 2026
When I first realized I was likely to be incarcerated, I started looking for information about prisons in Canada. It turned out to be surprisingly hard to find.
September 14, 2026
Richard Deveau has been appointed director of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Serious Incident Response Team for a five-year term, effective Sept. 9.
September 11, 2026
Ruling 9-0 in favour of the Ontario Crown’s position, the Supreme Court of Canada has declined to impose a presumptive time cap on post-conviction sentencing delays or to make a stay of proceedings the mandatory Charter remedy for unreasonable post-verdict sentencing delay that breaches an offender’s s. 11(b) Charter right to trial within a reasonable time.
September 11, 2026
Nova Scotia has introduced new legislation in the name of greater public safety — including laws supporting those who have been misrepresented by intimate images created or altered by AI.
September 11, 2026
Nicholas Burke has joined McInnes Cooper as a partner in its Sydney, N.S., office.
September 11, 2026
Appeal by appellant from a judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal which reduced his 24-month conditional sentence to 20 months. The appellant was convicted of sexual assault in October 2021.
September 08, 2026
Ottawa has agreed that the federal judiciary reasonably incurred more than $1 million in legal fees and disbursements to participate in the independent quadrennial process that is meant to depoliticize determinations of federal judicial remuneration and avoid pay disputes.
September 08, 2026
The Court of Appeal of Alberta has announced that Chief Justice of Alberta Ritu Khullar died on Sept. 3, surrounded by family. She also served as chief justice of the Courts of Appeal of Alberta, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.
September 04, 2026
Appeal by appellant from his convictions and sentence for second degree murder and attempted murder, and application for leave to appeal sentence. The convictions arose from an incident in which three men were shot, two fatally.