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Equality under the law is the cornerstone of liberal democracy. But judges across the country are now factoring race into sentencing.

Inside the decades-long East Coast battle between fishers and the federal government over Mi'kmaw treaty rights

Bry’n Ross (left) funnelled contracts to four companies associated with Harold Dawson (right). (CBC) Two Nova Scotia men who swindled the Department of National Defence out of millions of dollars are being sent to prison. But given that they've already been serving conditional sentences it's not clear how much time, if any, Harold Dawson and Bry'n Ross will actually spend behind bars. The two men were convicted in September 2019 of fraud over $5,000. They were sentenced on Feb. 25, 2020, to conditional sentences of two years, less a day. The Crown appealed those sentences and in a decisi...

Posted: Jan 07, 2021 2:20 PM AT | Last Updated: January 8 Bassam Al-Rawi was granted bail on Thursday. He will be allowed to return to Germany until his appeal hearing in June.(Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press) A former Halifax taxi driver sentenced to two years in prison last month for sexually assaulting a woman eight years ago has been granted bail and will be allowed to return to Germany while he awaits his appeal hearing in June. Bassam Al-Rawi filed a notice of appeal through his lawyer on Dec. 30. In August, he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in his Bedford, N.S., a...