Crown on hook over sentencing youths (The Globe and Mail)
Fri, 16 May 2008 14:31:09 GMT
Supreme Court rejects 'reverse onus' that would make young offenders prove why they should not be sentenced as adults
Top court rules Crown must prove convicted youth deserve adult punishment (CBC)
Fri, 16 May 2008 13:36:54 GMT
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that a provision in the Youth Criminal Justice Act is unconstitutional for forcing young offenders to prove why they should not be punished as adults for serious crimes.
Illegal Smokes Pose Challenge for Police (The Epoch Times)
Fri, 16 May 2008 01:13:31 GMT
A new policing strategy seeks to curb the illicit tobacco market in Canada, but a 200-year-old treaty may give the growing, highly lucrative trade a legal loophole.Announced last week by public ...
Sentencing violent youth as adults (Regina Leader-Post)
Thu, 15 May 2008 21:28:12 GMT
One hundred years after Parliament first created a separate justice system for “juvenile delinquents” of the time, the Supreme Court will hand down a decision Friday on whether Canada’s current youth-crime law is unconstitutional for presuming violent young people should be given adult sentences.
Quebec woman convicted for stealing $4 million from RBC (CBC Montreal)
Thu, 15 May 2008 19:28:46 GMT
A Quebec judge has found a former bank manager guilty of fraud for conning a Montreal branch of the Royal Bank out of $4.3 million.
Quebec robbery suspects stun man with cattle prod: police (CBC Montreal)
Thu, 15 May 2008 16:42:36 GMT
Police in Quebec are looking for three suspects after a condominium on Montreal's South Shore was broken into and one of the occupants was shocked with a cattle prod.
Former Royal Bank employee guilty of $4.3-million fraud (Canada.com)
Thu, 15 May 2008 16:02:44 GMT
A former bank employee has been found guilty of 46 counts of defrauding her employer, the Royal Bank of Canada, of a total of $4.3 million.
Quebec robbery suspects stun man with Taser: police (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News)
Thu, 15 May 2008 13:24:27 GMT
Police in Quebec are looking for three suspects after a condominium on Montreal's South Shore was broken into and one of the occupants was shot with a stun gun.
Canadian man arrested for child porn (Stafford County Sun)
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:29:57 GMT
STAFFORD — Richard John Doucet, of LaSalle, Quebec, Canada, has been charged with one count of attempted indecent liberties, one count of the use of an electronic communications device to solicit a juvenile and two counts of distribution of child pornography, reported the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office in a press release Monday.
Corrections Canada launches probe into serial killer's alleged MySpace (CNews)
Wed, 14 May 2008 23:13:57 GMT
VANCOUVER - Corrections Canada has launched an internal investigation to find out how prison pictures of serial killer Clifford Olson made their way on to MySpace.
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