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Canada's national police force is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) which is the main police force in Canada's north, and in rural areas except in Quebec, Ontario, and Newfoundland. Those three provinces have their own provincial police forces, although the RCMP still operate throughout rural Newfoundland and also provide specific ...
This is a chronological list of notable cases decided by the Supreme Court of Canada from the formation of the Court in 1875 to the retirement of Gérald Fauteux in 1973. Note that the Privy Council heard appeals for criminal cases until 1933 and for civil cases until 1949. Also between 1888 and 1926, no criminal appeals were allowed to the ...
Case name Citation Date Subject January 7, 2000 - Appointment of Beverley McLachlin as Chief Justice of Canada: Arsenault-Cameron v Prince Edward Island [2000] 1 S.C.R. 3, 2000 SCC 1 January 13, 2000 language rights Reference re Firearms Act [2000] 1 S.C.R. 783, 2000 SCC 31 June 15, 2000 Criminal law power Lovelace v Ontario
The following is a list of unsolved murders in Canada. Hundreds of homicides occur across Canada each year, many of which end up as cold cases . [ 1 ] In 2021, the country's intentional homicide rate stood at around 2.06 per 100,000 individuals, [ 2 ] increasing for the third consecutive year. [ 3 ]
Incarceration in Canada is one of the main forms of punishment, rehabilitation, or both, for the commission of an indictable offense and other offenses.. According to Statistics Canada, as of 2018/2019 there were a total of 37,854 adult offenders incarcerated in Canadian federal and provincial prisons on an average day for an incarceration rate of 127 per 100,000 population.
Full case name: Her Majesty The Queen and Attorney General of Quebec v Alexandre Bissonnette: Citations: 2022 SCC 23: Docket No. 39544 [1] Prior history: Judgment for defendant in the Court of Appeal for Quebec: Holding; Section 745.51 of the Criminal Code violates Section 12 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and is of no force or ...
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R v Zora, 2020 SCC 14 is a case in which the Supreme Court of Canada held unanimously that the offence of breaching bail conditions under the Criminal Code requires subjective mens rea. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Background, facts, and procedural history