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OTTAWA — Canada’s top court has struck down the one-year mandatory minimum sentence for the possession and access of child pornography.
The Supreme Court of Canada delivered its decision on Friday.
The case, which was heard by a nine-judge panel, involved a challenge to the sentencing rules brought forward by two men in Quebec who pleaded guilty to the offences.
They challenged the mandatory minimum sentences in the lower courts on the basis that they violated the Charter-protected right that guards against cruel and unusual punishment.
The Crown then appealed to the Supreme...
October 31, 2025 - 10:12 | Stephanie Taylor | National Post
Gusty winds and rain were lashing parts of the Maritimes this morning as a large low-pressure system moved into the northeastern United States and Hurricane Melissa accelerated towards eastern Newfoundland.The Category 1 hurricane was heading in a northeasterly direction, about 800 kilometres south of Nova Scotia, feeding some of its moisture into the low-pressure system.
October 31, 2025 - 09:50 | | The Globe and Mail
Canada's gross domestic product contracted slightly in August after an increase of 0.2 per cent in July, according to Statistics Canada.
October 31, 2025 - 09:47 | Ari Rabinovitch | Global News - Canada
Holsag Canada's furniture manufacturing faciliy in Lindsay, Ont., will close in March 2026 and relocate to the United States. Up to 130 jobs are expected to be lost.
October 31, 2025 - 09:43 | Greg Davis | Global News - Ottawa
I recognize that, as Canadians, we are used to paying a lot of money in taxes. But there are limits to how much we can tolerate being dinged each time we pay them, especially when nobody really told us about the surcharge on the tax. Read More
October 31, 2025 - 09:20 | Aaron Hutchins | Ottawa Citizen
There is arguably one problem with Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s TV ads using the words of Republican icon Ronald Reagan against Donald Trump: It didn’t quote the Gipper enough.
Reagan offered enough quotes about the dangers of tariffs and protectionism to fill an hour or more on Fox News. Some of them are even more devastating to Trump’s cause than those chosen by Ford.
For example: “Protectionism has no future; It’s a dead and discredited idea.” Reagan said that in a speech in 1988.
Here’s another: “(The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement) will send a number of messages. First and...
October 31, 2025 - 09:14 | Special to National Post | National Post
