Against assisted suicide
A few days ago the Canadian House of Commons rejected an assisted suicide bill. The proposed legislation would allow doctors to help terminally ill patients or people in unrelenting pain to end their lives. Currently,…
murder
Access to justice or abuse of legal aid?
Killer cop seeks funds for appeal Peter Edwards writes: A Toronto police officer who ran up a $1.2-million legal aid bill while on trial for his mistress’s murder is now seeking taxpayer funding to appeal…
Mental illness and crime
Father suffocated sons, stabbed daughter, murder trial told Another case where mental illness is at issue. Perhaps, if we as a society spent more money on diagnosis, treatment and care of the mentally ill, we…
Into the minds of the condemned: statements from Death Row
What’s it like to live on Death Row? What’s it like to die there? I wonder how a person can  stand to wait in a small cell, watching the second hand of a clock tick…
Crown liability for negligent release from jail
Father seeks compensation for son killed by pedophile Bastien was out on an extended pass from a detention centre where he was serving time for several unrelated offences. Three weeks after the slaying, then-public security…
Hypnosis evidence and murder
Man admits committing 1992 murder AÂ former Canada Post supervisor admitted today to the 1992 killing of his girlfriend, two years after the Supreme Court of Canada threw out his conviction in a landmark decision because…
Update on Tori Stafford case
Accused in Tori Stafford murder in court Her lawyer, Jeanine Leroy, says there is a “substantial amount of evidence” to review before the case goes any further.
Too harsh or too soft?
Life for teen in Rengel murder