August 13, 2026
A foreign national from India being held in immigration detention due to allegations of murder in his homeland and suspected ties to a terrorist group is considering a claim of habeas corpus in his ongoing fight for release.
August 13, 2026
Speed has dominated how we talk about artificial intelligence. AI can generate an image in seconds, draft a song before lunch or produce a dozen variations of a story without getting tired. AI can make artistic production faster and more accessible, but the arts have never been valuable simply because they are difficult to produce. We value them because someone chose to make them, because a human being noticed something, felt something and found a way to share it. With AI becoming more capable, human skills behind art do not disappear. They become easier to see, and, increasingly, easier to defend, since copyright itself now turns on identifying the human contribution in a work.
August 13, 2026
I’ve made the case regularly in these columns that imprisonment, even for a short time, has long-term negative effects on people and makes it harder for people to live positive, pro-social lives. Yet most people who get imprisoned in Canada do not return to prison; high recidivism rates are mainly a result of a relatively small number of people who are imprisoned over and over again.
August 13, 2026
When does consensual intimacy cross the line into criminal assault?
August 12, 2026
Quebec Court of Appeal Justice Geneviève Cotnam, who once recalled “my career as a lawyer didn’t always provide a smooth sailing to the bench,” is Quebec's new top judge, succeeding Quebec Court of Appeal Chief Justice Manon Savard who became a part-time (supernumerary) judge on Aug. 10.
August 12, 2026
The Ontario government has announced a $32.5 million investment in tools aimed at helping police fight illicit drugs, guns and cross-border crime.
August 12, 2026
According to an announcement from the office of Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Sean Fraser, Linda A. Maj, K.C., general counsel at the Department of Justice Canada in Edmonton, has been named a justice of the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta.
August 12, 2026
The Federal Court has rejected the Crown’s bid to summarily dismiss an action brought by a retired three-star general of the Canadian Armed Forces, finding that the record did not establish that his veterans’ benefits compensated him for the same injuries and losses claimed in the lawsuit.
August 12, 2026
As time went by and I got used to the realities of the parole board job, decisions came easier. But whenever we were seeing someone who had committed very violent offences, I could not help but be aware of the impact on others that a positive decision would have. My colleagues may have had different backgrounds but were equally concerned about possible ramifications from their decisions.
August 12, 2026
Parole. Not a weightless word, is it?