B.C.’s courts have brought us the Charter right to smoke drugs near playgrounds, the Charter right to erect a homeless encampment, and the Aboriginal right to claim title to someone else’s land. It’s a hard list to top, but on Tuesday, Justice Catherine Murray managed it by inventing a Charter right to deal drugs.
A Utah man who has spent more than four decades on death row was released from jail after newly analyzed DNA evidence showed that he was not connected to a 1985 homicide.
Douglas Stewart Carter, now 71, walked out of the Utah county jail late Monday night after a judge ordered his release on bail. He will have to wear a GPS monitoring device until a new trial begins.
First, when will we grasp that cashless bail is a terrible idea? It’s a woke soft-on-crime initiative peddled by those who think our justice system is akin to Nazi Germany, so they allow anyone- violent scum, rapists, and others to roam our streets, terrorizing the law-abiding populace.
In just a little more than a week, the Parole Board of Canada granted to two B.C. men jailed for murdering children temporary passes to leave prison.
Both men are pedophiles who committed their crimes in the early 2000s, and whose victims would now be in their 30s. Both men are believed to have been freed into the Victoria area, but their releases were not accompanied by public warnings.
It’s official: Canada’s race-based sentencing regime applies to Māori New Zealanders — and it’s so powerful that it can shave what should be a seven-year sentence down to one, and protect offenders from being publicly identified.
We learned this from a B.C. meth-trafficking case that was published Friday . It arose from a bust that happened at the Vancouver International Airport back in February 2025, in which a Māori-Tongan woman was intercepted in her attempt to fly 20 kilograms of methamphetamine back to Auckland in her suitcase. In Canada, if sold by the kilo, it was worth between $80,000 and $90,000; in New Zealand, it was worth at least four times that.
Forget the Lindsay Clancy trial itself for a moment. Near the conclusion of the trial, Clancy’s lawyer began targeting and threatening the holdout juror. This was already the stuff of mistrial and disbarment, but it set the stage for the harassment of the juror by online conspiracy theorists, for the eventual exposure of his name and location, and for the media joining in that same behavior.
The rape allegations that destroyed professor Steven Galloway’s career a decade ago were never actually tested. Indeed, the woman who made them isn’t planning to defend their accuracy in a defamation trial scheduled to start next month.
If it sounds like you’ve heard about this case before, you probably have. Galloway, an author and member of the University of British Columbia creative writing program, had an affair with a grad student older than he was, starting in 2011. Both of them were married at the time. It ended sometime in 2013 — and then, the student began telling people she’d been raped.
“Woke 1.0 was crazy,” according to Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. As she lays the groundwork for a 2028 U.S. Presidential run, her first priority is to distance herself from that recent political era.
At its peak, the Left’s woke platform covered the waterfront, and included “defunding the police,” having “a real conversation about … prison abolition,” “decriminalizing [illegal] border crossings,” and adopting the term “menstruating person” instead of “woman.”
We can’t know exactly why Ontario Superior Court Justice Heather McArthur decided on Thursday to uphold bail for a man accused of shooting up the U.S. Consulate in Toronto, but her reasons can’t make much sense. Perhaps she was compelled by some kind of sob story, or perhaps she convinced herself that whatever stern warning she gave against disobeying bail conditions would resonate with the alleged gun-for-hire. Who knows; that’s all covered by a publication ban.
A Superior Court judge has refused to enforce Ontario’s new cash bail system in a stunning rebuke just days after the controversial rules came into effect.
On Wednesday in Milton, Justice Scott Cowan released a woman charged with human trafficking without a cash deposit, in direct violation of the new law that demands payment in full within 48 hours.
An Ontario man who pimped out an 18-year-old and then later impregnated her was recently sentenced to one additional day in jail on top of what he’d already served.
The 47-year-old man pled guilty in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice to procuring her to offer sexual services between April 2015 and March 2018, and obtaining a material benefit knowing it was a crime. A ban has been placed on publication of information that would identify the victim.
A refugee who pleaded guilty to trafficking large amounts of methamphetamine and fentanyl and committing sexual assault has convinced an Alberta judge to give him more time to appeal his convictions by arguing he was misled into believing he would not get deported for serious criminality.
Mahir Yahya Shari, who has served three years for his drug and sex crimes, is facing deportation to Somalia after the Department of Immigration declared him a danger to Canada.
The Nova Scotia man who violently raped, murdered and later dismembered a 12-year-old girl in Ontario almost 40 years ago received another day parole extension this month.
And this time, the Parole Board of Canada (PBC) awarded 73-year-old Douglas Worth — a man still deemed to be an “above average risk” for sexual violence — leave privileges that will allow him to leave his Dartmouth halfway house for up to three nights at a time.
An armed robber who was involved in prison drone drops of drugs while behind bars and allegedly assaulted and choked his ex-girlfriend the day he got full parole is free again even though the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) recommended against releasing him.
Daniel Christian Anthony Johnson, who was sentenced in February 2024 to more than five years in prison for two March 1, 2022 jewelry store robberies in the Halifax area, was released on full parole this past April. But that was suspended after he allegedly attacked his ex.
Parole board members should be made to house their pets.
Sharmake Beyle Omar, the Somali man behind the viral video that sent Shiloh Hendrix to court, had charges of raping a 16-year-old girl dismissed by the Olmsted County District Court — the same district court that just ruled against Hendrix.
District court judge Christa Daily ordered Hendrix to pay a fine and place her on strict probation, despite letting off convicted sex offenders with no jail time.
