Canada

Indigenous women who were forcibly sterilised under Canada's eugenics programme have been granted permission to bring a first-of-its-kind class-action lawsuit in the province of Quebec. Justice Lukasz Granosik, of the Superior Court of Quebec, this week ruled that litigants UT and MX can bring the s

A judge in Canada has ruled that the "thumbs-up" emoji is as legally binding as a traditional signature in a judgment that ordered a farmer to pay damages for breach of contract. A court in Saskatchewan heard that a grain buyer had broadcast a text message to clients in 2021, expressing his interest

Justice Michelle O'Bonsawin has become the first indigenous person to be nominated for appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada in its 147-year history. The judge, who has served on the Ontario Superior Court of Justice bench since 2017, is an Abenaki member of the Odanak First Nation.

Canada should ban the buying and selling of all handguns, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said. Under a proposed law, private ownership of of all short-barrelled firearms would be prohibited.

A judge in British Columbia has refused to ask members of a jury about their vaccination status. “I do not think the participation of unvaccinated jurors risks public confidence in the administration of justice,” Justice Geoffrey Gomery said in a ruling.

Canada's top court has ruled that the US-based Sinixt nation's ancestral land rights survived the migration of their members south in the 19th century, the National Post reports. The court found for Rick Desautel, a descendent of the Sinixt who lives in Washington state. He was charged in 2010 with

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau violated the country's ethics laws when he told his Attorney General not to prosecute a company in a conflict of interest case, a watchdog has ruled. The country's ethics commissioner said that Mr Trudeau engaged in “flagrant attempts to influence&rd