2 h. ago Girl who pleaded guilty to assault in fatal swarming gets 9 months probation

A teen girl who pleaded guilty to assault in the fatal swarming of a homeless Toronto man was sentenced Tuesday to nine months of probation, with the judge taking into account the time she has already spent in custody and under house arrest. The girl was set to face trial for manslaughter in the death […]

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7 h. ago Russian journalist who escaped house arrest in Moscow arrives in Paris

Reporters Without Borders said it helped Ekaterina Barabash, who tore off her electronic monitoring tag and travelled over 2,800 kilometres

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36 h. ago Russian journalist who escaped house arrest in Moscow reappears in Paris after a brutal journey

PARIS — Russian journalist Ekaterina Barabash resurfaced in Paris Monday following a daring escape from Moscow last month after being put under house arrest and facing a 10-year prison sentence for posts condemning Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Reporters Without Borders, also known by its French acronym RSF, said it helped Barabash orchestrate her adrenaline-packed […]

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2 w. ago Vancouver police arrest sex offender missing from halfway house

Hayden McCorriston, 30, absconded on the first day of his release from prison on sex charges

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3 w. ago Indigenous man who fractured victim’s skull gets house arrest instead of jail after appeal

Appeal court rules that the judge who sentenced the man to jail failed to give due consideration to the role of his Indigenous background

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3 w. ago Jail for attack reduced to house arrest for B.C. Indigenous offender

In case where offender knocked out man who was helping, not harming, his mother, leaving him with lifelong injury, B.C. Appeal Court ruled offender shouldn't be jailed because goal is to reduce disproportionate number of Indigenous in Canada's jails.

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