It may be time for the National Parole Board to take its Policy Manual off the bookshelf.  This month, the Federal Court ordered the Board to reconsider Robert Latimer’s request for more lenient parole conditions in Latimer v. Canada (AG), 2010 FC 806.  Latimer, the infamous mercy killer who euthanized his severely disabled daughter, was [...]

Although the recent pair of Supreme Court decisions regarding drug-sniffing dogs have (understandably) been attracting most of the attention, the Supreme Court last week handed down its decision in R. v. Mathieu, 2008 SCC 21, which is worth at least a brief note given its potential impact on sentencing. R. v. Mathieu is actually a [...]