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Author: David Ebner
Publication Date: November 10, 2025 - 07:00
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Supreme Court under fire for ruling against mandatory-minimum sentences in child-porn case
November 10, 2025
The Supreme Court of Canada’s controversial ruling against mandatory-minimum jail sentences for some child-pornography crimes has shone a harsh spotlight on how the top court weighs the law in such cases.
The 5-4 decision on Oct. 31 – with Chief Justice Richard Wagner co-writing the dissent – led a range of political leaders across the country to lambaste the ruling.
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Ottawa police and their colleagues across Canada sent out alerts this week about the return of the “South American theft groups.” The thieves, also called “crime tourists,” legally enter the country alone or in small groups, then “commit coordinated residential and retail break-ins,” police said. In addition to Ottawa, investigations in the Greater Toronto Area, […]
December 6, 2025 - 14:22 | Norman Provencher | Ottawa Citizen
Polytechnique Montréal honoured the 14 women murdered in the 1989 anti-feminist attack, with ceremonies, tributes and calls from leaders to confront gender-based violence.
December 6, 2025 - 14:06 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Prime Minister Mark Carney rescinded Canada’s digital services tax (DST), a three per cent levy on digital services revenue from large domestic and foreign businesses, in June after President Donald Trump threatened to halt trade talks if the tax took effect. The repeal was a strategic move to restart stalled negotiations with the United States, which soon resumed after Carney’s announcement but were again disrupted later … by a Ronald Reagan ad. Despite removing the DST to ease tensions, Carney has little to show for it.
Still, the Cato Institute’s Adam Michel,...
December 6, 2025 - 12:40 | Tracy Moran | National Post
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