GeneralAll eyes on Canada: legal community awaits sentence for navy officer guilty of espionageHALIFAX - Intelligence and justice officials around the world will be watching Thursday as a navy officer convicted of selling...
OttawaThe Conservatives and the crime rateVic Toews acknowledges that the crime rate is going down, this time in a speech on increasing policing costs. The crime rate has...
OttawaBeneath the mask billLast week, Blake Richards’ bill on wearing a mask in an unlawful assembly passed the House. Irwin Cotler explains why it’s...
OttawaEquality before the lawIrwin Cotler criticizes the Harper government’s decision to cut prison chaplains .
OttawaPicking and choosing religionsPrison inmates will now only be served by Christian chaplains. The CBC says the prison chaplain program costs $6.4 million and...
Ottawa’A breach of an individual’s rights’An Ontario judge has declared a Harper government measure on dangerous offenders to be unconstitutional. As Colby Cosh detailed...
OttawaTough on prison guardsPrison guards are planning to protest outside the Prime Minister’s constituency office. See previously: What’s going on in...
OttawaA record number of inmatesCorrectional investigator Howard Sapers reviews the state of Canada’s prisons. See previously: What’s going on in Canada’s...
OttawaOnce a criminal, always a criminalEdward Greenspan and Anthony Doob get tough on the Harper government’s "tough on crime" approach to justice policy.
Ottawa’This is not a theoretical problem’After meeting with Rob Ford, Stephen Harper challenges the courts. Here again is Colby Cosh’s look at the details of the two cases...