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Offenders in British Columbia convicted of serious Criminal Code offences will no longer be permitted to legally change their names under legislation introduced today. Health Minister Adrian Dix says the ...

Commentary Our federal government, like a mother seeking to protect her very young and vulnerable children, has announced ...

Commentary The federal government's awkward and at times ham-fisted efforts to regulate how Canadian citizens communicate on the ...

Surrey protestors have filed a complaint with the RCMP accusing Education Minister Rachna Singh of violating the Criminal ...

Legislation making changes to Canada's bail system has received Royal Assent and will come into effect on Jan. ...

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet has tabled a bill to remove the provision in the Criminal Code that ...

Justice Minister David Lametti and the federal government are expected to bring forward legislation to enact bail reform ...

U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy holds a ceremony at 11:30 a.m. ET on March 10, for signing the 'H.J. Res. ...

The Trudeau government is expected to introduce legislation today to alter terrorism provisions of the Criminal Code that ...

Chiefs of police are expressing support for a private Senate bill that will see the expansion of DNA ...

Commentary Provincial justice ministers of Manitoba and Saskatchewan are urgently calling on the federal government to “convene a ...

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) clarifies his budget plan, saying he never wanted to cut Social Security, after taking ...

The federal government has introduced proposed amendments to the Criminal Code that would establish an independent commission to ...

Indonesia has approved a new criminal code that includes a provision to ban communist and Marxist-Leninist propaganda, a ...

A Canada Post employee in Alberta was arrested after a search warrant found that the employee had over ...

News Analysis Proposed federal legislation could put someone in jail for 10 years for protesting outside a hospital, ...

BELGRADE—Bosnia's outgoing international peace overseer decreed amendments to its criminal code on Friday to allow jail terms for ...

There’s no law against sex-selective abortion in Canada, and a Conservative MP is hoping to change that. “Sex ...

Commentary The Liberal government introduced Bill C-21 in Parliament this week claiming that it would combat gun violence and ...

QUEBEC—The man who murdered six people in a Quebec City mosque in 2017 will be eligible to apply ...

OTTAWA—The Liberal government says it will bring in a bill on one-game sports betting, five years after a ...

The Liberal government has reintroduced legislation to ban conversion therapy across Canada—a move that concerns some Conservatives as ...