6 d. ago Ontario court rejects Frank Stronach’s challenge ahead of Toronto sex assault trial

An Ontario judge has dismissed billionaire businessman Frank Stronach’s bid to quash his committal to stand trial on one of the dozen charges he faces in his Toronto sexual assault case. Stronach, 93, was committed to stand trial on 12 charges following a preliminary hearing in April. The charges stem from alleged incidents dating back […]

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7 d. ago Trailer Park Boys actor Mike Smith arraigned on sex assault charge

Incident in December 2017 in Dartmouth, N.S., led to Canadian actor's arrest on Oct. 2

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7 d. ago Ontario judge dismisses Frank Stronach’s challenge ahead of sex assault trial

Frank Stronach's lawyers challenged the decision of his committal to stand trial regarding one charge, but the motion was rejected on Monday.

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8 d. ago Man gets maximum house arrest for indecent acts, sex assault

Jeremy Broumpton was not in a sound state of mind when he repeatedly took his clothes off and committed indecent acts, his lawyer said.

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9 d. ago Trailer Park Boys star Mike Smith charged with sex assault in Halifax

Fifty-three-year-old actor who plays the character Bubbles was charged by Halifax Regional Police on Oct. 2.

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1 week ago ‘Most horrific thing’: Freed Gaza hostage says he was sexually assaulted, captors worse than Nazis

'The goal was to crush my dignity,' says 21-year-old Rom Braslavski, who was working as a security guard at the Nova festival when he was abducted. He was held in Gaza for two years

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1 week ago Edmonton police seek witnesses in August sex assault on Whyte Avenue

Edmonton police are hoping to find the people who intervened after a woman was sexually assaulted near Whyte Avenue in August. On Aug. 22, a woman was walking near Whyte Avenue and 107 Street between 11:15 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. when she was attacked from behind and sexually assaulted, police said in a Tuesday news […]

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1 week ago Indian immigrants get house arrest for running fraudulent truck driving schools in Ontario

The Ontario judge described their crimes as 'an elaborate scheme' that robbed almost 100 truck driver students 'of the proper training they had paid for'

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1 week ago Misconduct by Ontario lawyers and paralegals to be made public: ‘No brainer’

Ontario Law Society is set to drop its decades-long practice of withholding such information, even in cases involving sex assault by legal professionals

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2 w. ago This Ontario ruling may be the most compelling judicial decision you’ll ever read

A bucolic Ontario village. A midnight shooting. And a wise judge who knows how to tell a story

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2 w. ago Toronto man found NCR after stabbing friend 22 times in December 2023

Jared Shokoff was actively psychotic when he stabbed his friend Nathan Samuel 22 times two years ago, an Ontario judge ruled Friday.

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2 w. ago $510M in lawyers’ fees in treaty case unreasonable, judge says

The Ontario judge ruled the $510 million in lawyer fees for the treaty case was unreasonable and ordered it scaled back to $23 million.

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2 w. ago N.S. man charged in sex assault dating back almost 22 years: RCMP

RCMP said a Nova Scotia man has been arrested and charged for a sexual assault that police allege took place almost 22 years ago when the victim was a child.

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3 w. ago Charges against three accused killers stayed over inmate rights violations

An Ontario judge has stayed first-degree murder charges against three men in an alleged “execution-style” killing after concluding that their Charter rights were violated at a Milton incarceration facility. Superior Court Justice Clayton Conlan says in his ruling that Joseph Richard Whitlock, Kulvir Singh Bhatia and Karn Veer Sandhu were subjected to “torturous state actions” […]

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3 w. ago Judge tosses murder charges over ‘torturous’ treatment at Ontario jail

An Ontario judge has ordered the end to a first-degree murder case over the “torturous” treatment the accused experienced while incarcerated.

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3 w. ago 'There are more victims': Leduc man facing 113 charges in child luring and sex assault investigation: ALERT

"This is believed to be one of the largest investigations of its kind in Alberta, and we're not done investigating it"

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