Justice Minister Rob Nicholson has ended the discretionary practice of giving criminals double credit on time served awaiting trial. Previously, for example, a convict who had waited two years for trial could take four years…
White-collar criminals face new sentences Campbell Clark writes for the Globe and Mail: The federal government will legislate two-year minimum sentences for big-money frauds of more than $1-million, seeking to assuage an outcry over a…
Ottawa to seek top court ruling on single securities regulator Unlike the US, Canada doesn’t have a national securities regulator. Canadian constitution is somewhat equivocal in its division of powers between provinces and Ottawa. It…
Reported by Canwest News Service, the Canadian Department of Justice is proposing a new law that would allow police officers to randomly demand breath samples in an effort to curtail drunk driving, without respect to…
Watchdog failed to show 2008 vote illegal: Federal Court Sue Bailey writes: Harper asked the Governor General to dissolve Parliament last September despite his own fixed-date election law. That law set the next federal vote…
