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Winnipeg Kids Allegedly Robbed Stores Wielding Bear Spray

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.15.2011 | Canada

WINNIPEG - Police in Winnipeg say they've caught two children wanted in a string of robberies where one of the suspects held up businesses while armed...

Pass This Crime Bill Now: Conservatives

CBC | Posted 12.06.2011 | Canada Politics

The Conservatives are estimating the cost of their omnibus crime bill at $78.6 million over five years, a figure the opposition says is u...

Downtown Winnipeg Stays Too Risky For Air Canada Crews

CBC | Posted 12.01.2011 | Canada

Air Canada says its pilots and flight crews will no longer stay in downtown Winnipeg after a security review of the area prompted concern...

Water Polo Player Banned For Riot Role

CP | Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.27.2011 | Canada

OTTAWA - A Canadian water polo player who was shown in some notorious images from the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot has been banned from the national tea...

Drugs Number One Reason For Federal Prosecutions

CP | Bruce Cheadle, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.21.2011 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - Almost three quarters of all cases handled by federal prosecutors last year involved drugs, according to the annual report from the Public Pr...

Killer Clifford Olson Dying

CBC | Posted 11.21.2011 | Canada

Convicted serial killer Clifford Robert Olson is dying of cancer and has only days to live, according to the families of some of his vict...

Althia Raj

Tories To Debut Massive Crime Bill Despite Drop In Reported Incidents

HuffingtonPost.com | Althia Raj | Posted 11.18.2011 | Canada Politics

The Conservative government will introduce sweeping justice reforms Tuesday with a massive omnibus bill it hopes to pass early in the new year. Th...

Should We Pay for Crime Prevention or Make Crime Pay?

Ontario Election Debate Hub | Posted 11.14.2011 | Canada
Ontario Election Debate Hub

Jason Lietaer (PC): Liberals (and the NDP) ridicule our plans to put prisoners to work. They think GPS bracelets on sex offenders is a dumb idea. And a website that tracks sexual predators? Ridiculous. I ask, though: if not these ideas, what? Is Dalton McGuinty satisfied that he's doing enough?

Montreal Daycare Firebombed Twice

CBC | Posted 11.14.2011 | Canada

A Montreal daycare struck by arson three times in the past two weeks was raided two years ago during an international ID fraud probe. ...

Canada's Anti-Terrorism Laws: Better to Have and Not Need

Mubin Shaikh | Posted 11.08.2011 | Canada
Mubin Shaikh

In the Toronto 18 case in which I testified five times over four years, it was clear that had there been no such legislation, the offences that the Superior Court found to be criminal would probably not have been denounced as required.

Remains Found During Search For Missing Sask. Woman

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 10.28.2011 | Canada

HERSCHEL, Sask. - Mounties in Saskatchewan say remains they believe are human have been found near the search area for a woman who vanished while supp...

Althia Raj

Tories Ignoring Complaints About Pardon Fee Hike

HuffingtonPost.com | Althia Raj | Posted 10.19.2011 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA— The Conservative government is pressing ahead with a plan to quadruple pardon applications fees despite the fact that 99 per cent of the res...

Crown Seeks Life For Romeo Cormier

CP | Kevin Bissett, The Canadian Press | Posted 10.18.2011 | Canada

MONCTON, N.B. - A New Brunswick judge condemned Romeo Cormier's crimes as "horrendous" as he gave the man an 18-year prison sentence Thursday for hold...

More Charges For Accused In Vicious B.C. Sex Assault

CBC | Posted 10.12.2011 | Canada

David Wesley Bobbitt is now facing eight criminal charges in connection with the beating and sexual assault of a young Penticton, B.C., mother. The...

Quebecers To Protest Over Turcotte Child-Murder Case Verdict

CP | Posted 10.04.2011 | Canada

MONTREAL - The public outcry is still palpable in Quebec, one month later, over a jury's decision to find a man who stabbed to death his two children ...

B.C. Sex Assault Suspect Caught

CP | Posted 10.04.2011 | Canada

PENTICTON, B.C. - Mounties had launched a Canada-wide search for a man accused of a vicious assault on a young mother, but he was found just 50 kilome...

Tough on Crime Bill Is Tough on Us All

Joseph Neuberger | Posted 10.01.2011 | Canada
Joseph Neuberger

It is simply not a socially and economically healthy policy for society to say once a person is found guilty or pleads guilty, that we must, "throw the book at them." Also, we should also not lose sight of the benefit of a simple concept: mercy.

Decapitated Body Found On Manitoba First Nation

CP | Posted 10.01.2011 | Canada

AMARANTH, Man. - A family in Manitoba is struggling to come to terms with the gruesome details of the death of their daughter, saying police told them...

Woman Charged With Murder In Winnipeg Fire

The Canadian Press | Posted 09.16.2011 | Canada

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- WINNIPEG - Winnipeg police have arrested and charged a woman in their investigation of a rooming house fire that killed four peo...

Charges Dropped In Murder Of Three Prostitutes

The Canadian Press | Posted 09.15.2011 | Canada

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- TORONTO - The Crown has dropped first-degree murder charges against a convicted killer in the deaths of three Toronto prostitute...

Drug Dealing Cop A Narcissist, Psychiatrist Says

The Canadian Press | Posted 09.12.2011 | Canada

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- VANCOUVER - A sentencing hearing for a former Vancouver police officer who sold drugs on the job has heard he's a born narcissis...

Chief's Grandson Shot Dead On Alberta Reserve

The Canadian Press | Posted 09.10.2011 | Canada

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- HOBBEMA, Alta. - The five-year-old grandson of the chief of an Alberta reserve known for its gang violence has been killed in a ...

Crown To Seek Adult Sentence In Police Death

CP | Posted 09.06.2011 | Canada

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- NEWMARKET, Ont. - The prosecution served notice on Thursday that it wants a teenager accused in the death of a police officer cr...

Victim Disputes Romeo Cormier Testimony

CBC | Posted 08.29.2011 | Canada

CBC -- Prosecutors have recalled the woman who says Romeo Cormier kidnapped and sexually assaulted her after the Moncton, N.B., man spent two days in ...

Teen Driver Charged With Murder In Police Death

The Canadian Press | Posted 08.29.2011 | Canada

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- NEWMARKET, Ont. -- A 15-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of Constable Garrett...