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.
A temporary resident named Karandeep Singh was convicted of sexual assault in Prince George, B.C., last month, but — after the judge heard that Singh faced potential deportation — he was exempt from the national sex offender registry.
There was a time when this would have been impossible, as the written law requires all sexual assault convicts to be placed on the registry. In 2022, however, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled this to be unconstitutional and downgraded the registration of sex offenders from mandatory to optional. Whether to put someone on the list was left up to individual judges, who were much more merciful than Parliament.
A judge has ordered that the public pick up a convicted sex offender’s $50,000 legal tab due to delayed disclosure of records by Toronto police and the “deliberately uncooperative” detective in charge of the case.
Superior Court Justice Gillian Roberts took the rare step of ordering costs against the Crown — the provincial government — last month, in the case of a man who, after accusing his partner of cheating, ripped off her pants, attempted to penetrate her digitally and tried to shove her tampon in her mouth while threatening to kill her.
VANCOUVER — On a summer 2024 morning in Montreal, a 32-year-old crypto entrepreneur found himself bound with zip ties and screaming in pain on the floor of his Verdun apartment, pleading with a group of masked attackers to stop torturing him.
Among the attackers was Omar Abdul Singateh, 23, a “Brampton man” who had only been in Montreal for about a day.
Sounds like one of those moderate Muslims our elites imported for our benefit. https://t.co/BtKJFI0i0h
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) July 13, 2026
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Last week, Alberta’s top court ruled that a deaf man who never learned to communicate can’t be tried for sex crimes, or even assessed for mental fitness to stand trial, because it would violate his Charter rights. This means the man is functionally exempt from the Criminal Code, and is thus free to rape and even murder if he so wishes.
In April, Alberta prosecutors announced that sexual assault charges against a prominent spiritual leader and his wife would be stayed due to a combination of trial delays and prosecutorial misconduct. After years of waiting, one complainant told The Globe and Mail that those who had come forward felt “betrayed,” that there was “no accountability,” and that they had become “victims of the system.”
After years of criminal justice reform that included a lighter touch for some offenders, the federal Liberal government has done an about-face and enacted stricter policies to tamp down on crime rates that have become a political liability in some vote-rich parts of the country.
While much of the public’s attention has been focused on the U.S. trade dispute and persistent affordability concerns, the Liberal government’s legislative agenda in the most recent parliamentary sitting was heavily weighted toward a crime crackdown.
Justice Minister Sean Fraser restored some mandatory minimum sentences, mostly targeting firearms and child sex crimes, and tightened bail laws designed to keep more repeat, violent offenders locked up for longer.
Law and order? As in a surveillance state with two tiered justice.
A judge defended the one-day sentence he handed a carjacker who stole a Toronto driver’s Mercedes at gunpoint, blaming the man’s jailers for failing the community.
Jaiden Robinson, who spent 809 days (two years and 79 days) in pre-trial custody, pleaded guilty in the Ontario Court of Justice to robbery with a prohibited weapon for a March 2024, mid-afternoon carjacking at the Shops at Don Mills. Both the Crown and Robinson’s lawyer recommended he get the mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison.
h/t Mauser
A Nigerian woman has managed to stave off deportation from Canada by arguing that she feared a powerful businessman in her homeland who wanted to make her his mistress.
Amina E-Osmund Ekpo was slated to report for removal from Canada earlier this week. But a Federal Court judge granted her an urgent stay Tuesday while the 47-year-old waits to see if another judge will grant a review of an immigration officer’s refusal to give Ekpo a pre-removal risk assessment (PRRA) — her last-ditch bid to stay in Canada.
When Roy Romanow was premier of Saskatchewan, he had a saying that can be paraphrased: when observers or commentators offer political statements or opinions, they are in my bailiwick and I shall be free to respond as I see fit.
Romanow’s dictum came to mind in reading Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Wagner’s warning against “attacks” on the judicial system and portraying judges as “political actors” or “obstacles to the will of the people.”
