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LONDON, ON, Feb. 22, 2024 /CNW/ - Today, in the Ontario Superior Court in London, Justice Pomerance found that the crimes of 23-year-old Nathaniel Veltman constitute terrorist activity. This is an...
TORONTO, Feb. 7, 2024 /CNW/ - Today, the Public Prosecution Service of Canada filed a Notice of Appeal in the Court of Appeal for Ontario to initiate an appeal on the sentence imposed on Cameron Jay...
OTTAWA, ON, Jan. 2, 2024 /CNW/ - The Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) has expanded the eligibility for participation in a Drug Treatment Court (DTC). This change is intended to eliminate...
TORONTO, Nov. 28, 2023 /CNW/ - Today, the Ontario Superior Court, sitting as a youth justice court, imposed an adult sentence on a young person. The young person, Oguzhan Sert, was sentenced to life...
OTTAWA, ON, Nov. 22, 2023 /CNW/ - Today, in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, a jury found Cameron Ortis guilty of four offences under the Security of Information Act for intentionally and...
OTTAWA, ON, Nov. 2, 2023 /CNW/ - The outstanding accomplishments of Canadian prosecutors were recognized by the Federal-Provincial-Territorial (FPT) Heads of Prosecutions Committee at an awards...
TORONTO, July 27, 2023 /CNW/ - On June 6, 2023, the Ontario Superior Court, sitting as a Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) court released its decision in a youth matter. The court found that the...
BRAMPTON, ON, July 25, 2023 /CNW/ - Today, in the Ontario Superior Court, Mohammed Omar was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty last week to three criminal offences that also...
BRAMPTON, ON, July 19, 2023 /CNW/ - Today, in the Ontario Superior Court, Mohammed Omar pleaded guilty to the following three criminal offences that also constitute terrorist activity: Administering...
TORONTO, June 21, 2023 /CNW/ - Today, in the Ontario Superior Court, Canada Bread Company Limited (CBCL) was sentenced to fines totaling $50 million after the company pleaded guilty to four counts of ...
MONTREAL, May 17, 2023 /CNW/ - On May 16, 2023, the Superior Court of Quebec published the details of the remediation agreement between the Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) and Ultra...
OTTAWA, ON, March 7, 2023 /CNW/ - The Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) announced changes to the "Decision to Prosecute" guideline of the PPSC Deskbook. The PPSC Deskbook sets standards of...
MONTREAL, March 6, 2023 /CNW/ - Due to a lack of sufficient evidence, the Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) has today stayed the proceedings initiated on January 5, 2023, in response to a...
OTTAWA, ON, Feb. 23, 2023 /CNW/ - Today, in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Awso Peshdary received the equivalent of a 14-year custodial sentence after pleading guilty to four terrorism...
IQALUIT, NU, Jan. 6, 2023 /CNW/ - On July 13, 2022, prosecutor Emma Baasch was advised that an accused allegedly interfered with a witness that was scheduled to testify at a trial held at the Nunavut ...
IQALUIT, NU, Jan. 5, 2023 /CNW/ - The Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) has concluded its review of an RCMP Investigation Report about a non-fatal shooting by two RCMP officers, which...
OTTAWA, ON, Nov. 3, 2022 /CNW/ - The outstanding accomplishments of Canadian prosecutors were recognized by the Federal-Provincial-Territorial (FPT) Heads of Prosecutions Committee at an awards...
OTTAWA, ON, Oct. 26, 2022 /CNW/ - In the matter of Johannes Rivoire, French authorities have advised that they are declining the extradition request made by Justice Canada on behalf of the Public...
CALGARY, AB, May 26, 2022 /CNW/ - Today, in the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, Hussein Borhot was sentenced to a total of 12 years in prison for travelling to Syria and partaking in ISIS...
YELLOWKNIFE, NT, May 18, 2022 /CNW/ - The Public Prosecution Service (PPSC) has created a team in the Northwest Territories (NWT) office to develop approaches to sexual assault prosecutions to...
CALGARY, AB, April 28, 2022 /CNW/ - Today, in the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, Hussein Borhot pleaded guilty to travelling to Syria and participating in the activities of a terrorist group...
OTTAWA, ON, March 31, 2022 /CNW/ - The Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) wishes to respond to the media coverage of the Designated Person case by the following: The PPSC does not initiate...
BELLEVILLE, ON, Feb. 9, 2022 /CNW/ - Today, in the Ontario Court of Justice sitting as a youth justice court, a young person was sentenced to two years in custody followed by one year of community...
IQALUIT, NU, Dec. 20, 2021 /CNW/ - The Public Prosecution Service of Canada is responsible for prosecuting criminal matters in the Territory of Nunavut. On November 10, 2021, a young person was...
OTTAWA, ON, Dec. 3, 2021 /CNW/ - Today, Kathleen Roussel, Director of Public Prosecutions, announced the tabling in Parliament of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada Annual Report 2020-2021. The ...
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