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A Calgary organization that offers free legal services to people who don’t qualify for legal aid in Alberta is calling on candidates in the provincial election to remove barriers to accessing justice. “We have political parties talking specifically about crime in our downtown area and on our trains, and there …
Read More »Why Ontario is expanding rehabilitation-first courts
Ontario’s justice system is set to get a cash infusion from the Federal government to dramatically expand new community-based courts in the province – a move that could help cut down on pandemic-induced court backlogs, while adding a more progressive approach to criminal cases. Global News has confirmed, through an …
Read More »Police look for suspect after assault outside Law Courts Building – Winnipeg
Winnipeg police are looking for a suspect after a woman was assaulted outside the Law Courts Building early Friday morning. Police say the 20-year-old woman was walking from St. Mary Avenue and Kennedy Street to the courthouse at around 5:45 a.m. when an unknown man began to follow her. As …
Read More »Courts, government bills are unravelling Harper-era crime laws
The list of criminal laws passed by the Stephen Harper government that have since been struck down by Canadian courts is growing steadily. The trend’s latest casualty came Friday, when the Supreme Court of Canada overturned a 2011 change to the Criminal Code that required sex offenders to be automatically added to the National Sex …
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