Conditional sentences help weave together hypothetical scenarios, probabilities, and cause-and-effect relationships. Understanding conditionals isn’t only important in mastering the subtleties of ...

In a case involving an Indigenous woman convicted of drug trafficking, the Ontario Court of Appeal has struck down two criminal code provisions which denied her a conditional sentence. The Criminal ...

A majority of the Supreme Court of Canada has found that Criminal Code provisions prohibiting conditional sentences for certain offences did not infringe an Indigenous woman’s equality rights, because ...

According to the tenth edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, a conditional is a clause or sentence which begins with ‘if’ or ‘unless’, and expresses a condition. However, this week’s ...