Criminal Code News Archive

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: historic Provincial Law Courts - pediment : blind justice and cornucopias in the tympanum - photo by M.Torres

Faculty of Law

Globe and Mail: Indigenous traditions in trials can restore trust in justice system, Manitoba chief judge says

January 31, 2025 —
Glenn Joyal points to trial in killings of four Indigenous women as a template for how justice can overlap with reconciliation

advancing reconciliation, Canadian law courts, Chief Justice Glenn Joyal, Criminal Code, Jeremy Skibicki

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Faculty of Law

Winnipeg Free Press: Man, 19, charged in antisemitic graffiti incidents

January 15, 2025 —
Dozens of Charleswood walls, fences defaced; doesn’t meet criteria for hate crime, police say

antisemitism, Criminal Code, Manitoba courts, Winnipeg Police

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Photo credit: JESSICA LEE / FREE PRESS FILES Brandon Trask is an associate law professor at the University of Manitoba and a former prosecutor.

Faculty of Law

Winnipeg Free Press: Police, prosecutors disagree on Criminal Code release ‘mandate’

December 5, 2024 —
Police, prosecutors disagree on Criminal Code release ‘mandate’

Criminal Code, criminal law, Winnipeg Police

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