A Grand Manan fisherman has been given the province’s first conditional sentence for aggravated assault since federal rules were loosened two years ago, according to a judge. Jordan Michael Kevin ...

Conditional sentences express a connection between two actions or states. One thing happens because of another. These connections can be general, specific, likely, unlikely, real or imagined. Although ...

In an aggravated assault case, the British Columbia Court of Appeal replaced the custodial sentence with a conditional sentence upon ruling the Gladue principles required it to sentence the Indigenous ...

A majority of the Supreme Court of Canada has found that Criminal Code provisions prohibiting conditional sentences for certain offences did not infringe an Indigenous woman’s equality rights, because ...

We use the zero conditional to talk about things which always happen if a particular action takes place. These can be scientific facts, or things we believe are always true. When you take exercise, ...