Criminal
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September 03, 2025
Legal experts & advocates push PM Carney for urgent action to secure Canada’s ‘digital sovereignty’
Legal experts, advocacy organizations and prominent Canadians are asking Ottawa to urgently legislate and implement measures to counter the digital risks to Canada’s autonomy and democracy posed by artificial intelligence (AI), foreign interference and U.S. tech giants’ dominance of domestic digital infrastructure.
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September 03, 2025
Crown unable to prove beyond reasonable doubt officer acted unlawfully
Off-duty Belleville police constable Paul Fyke was shopping at Lowe’s when he overheard staff discussing concerns about a group of three shoppers suspected of shoplifting. They observed a man in a white hat stealing an energy drink. Const. Fyke identified himself as a police officer and offered assistance.
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September 03, 2025
Geneviève Lamontagne appointed as judge of the Court of Quebec
Quebec Minister of Justice Simon Jolin-Barrette has announced the appointment of Geneviève Lamontagne as a judge of the Court of Quebec.
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September 03, 2025
SENTENCING - Aggravated assault - Mitigating factors - Aboriginal offenders – Gladue report
Leave to appeal by Izzard from sentence. Izzard, who has roots in both Indigenous and Black marginalized communities, was convicted, on a guilty plea, of aggravated assault and four other offences.
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September 02, 2025
Carney cabinet set to chart Ottawa’s way forward on crime, ‘major projects,’ defence & free trade
As MPs ready their Sept. 15 return to the House of Commons, Prime Minister Mark Carney and his cabinet are meeting for two days in Toronto to strategize how to move forward with the Liberal government’s fall priorities, which include combatting crime, fast-tracking major infrastructure projects including building affordable homes, and “advance the beginnings of Canada’s preparations” for the 2026 joint review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) on free trade.
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September 02, 2025
LSM annual report a ‘comprehensive’ look at fiscal year, road ahead: president
As Manitoba’s law society takes stock of its most recent fiscal year, the regulator’s new president aims to continue the work of minding lawyers’ well-being as part of a new strategic plan. Law Society of Manitoba (LSM) president Kyle Dear recently sat down with Law360 Canada to discuss the recent release of the law society’s 2025 annual report — a 31-page snapshot of the regulator’s latest fiscal year, which ran from April 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025.
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September 02, 2025
Decision suggests root causes of offending sometimes more insidious than offence itself
Kenneth Conrad Izzard’s name first appeared in the Vancouver Sun on Jan. 10, 2015. The news report concerned the 29-year-old’s arrest for manslaughter after the body of 49-year-old Jeffery Scott Nasa-Dyke was found in East Vancouver. Nasa-Dyke had been missing since mid-November 2014. Izzard was found guilty of using a hammer to fatally beat the drug dealer on the head over $30. Izzard was sentenced to five and a half years.
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August 29, 2025
‘Right to be forgotten’ privacy issues under PIPEDA and Charter heading to Federal Court
Does Parliament’s private-sector privacy law protect the “right to be forgotten”? That question, at least in part, is now headed to Federal Court, following a groundbreaking determination this week by Canada’s privacy commissioner that Canadians have a right under the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) — in some circumstances and when certain criteria are met — to have online material about them delinked from their names (“de-listed”) so that published material is not listed in search engine results when their name is searched.
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August 29, 2025
The significance of assistants in parole hearings
Individuals who are serving federal sentences of over two years have the right to apply for day parole and will be scheduled for full parole consideration at the appropriate time.
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August 29, 2025
Ontario Court of Appeal denies bail in gun trafficking case
It did not make the front page of the Cornwall Standard-Freeholder on Jan. 13, 2023, when it was reported that four people, including Brandon Laffin, then 38, were facing various charges following a police search of a residence on International Road.