The federal government doesn’t have to try to reduce the disproportionate incarceration rates of Indigenous peoples when it passes crime laws, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. The court split ...

A Winnipeg mother convicted of failing to provide the necessaries of life after her 13-month-old son died with drugs in his system has been given a roughly two-year conditional sentence order.

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 ...