sexual assault

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has awarded author Steven Galloway access to emails between a woman who accused him of sexual assault and staff at the University of British Columbia in a test of a provincial law intended to protect freedom of expression.

A Crown prosecutor says testimony about former hostage Joshua Boyle's controlling, abusive nature should be admitted into evidence at his assault trial because it depicts a relevant pattern of behaviour.

Military members accused of serious offences under military law do not have a constitutional right to a jury trial, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday, July 26, 2019.

The rate and severity of crime both ticked up in 2018, for a fourth year in a row, according to Statistics Canada.

Former Afghanistan hostage Caitlan Coleman lied this week when she testified in her estranged husband's criminal trial she got approval from her lawyers to talk the media, defence lawyer Lawrence Greenspon said in court on Thursday, July 4, 2019.

Lynda Coleman says her daughter, Caitlan, was an unemotional automaton who was afraid of her husband in the weeks after she and Joshua Boyle were released from captivity.

The sexual-assault trial of former Afghanistan hostage Joshua Boyle will proceed today, July 3, 2019, after the judge decided evidence given earlier in the trial is still admissible.

The sexual-assault trial of former Afghanistan hostage Joshua Boyle is dealing with more concerns about admitting evidence of the alleged victim's past sexual history.

Statistics Canada has offered a sobering assessment of the Canadian Forces' four-year war on sexual misconduct, suggesting in a new report on Wednesday, May 22, 2019, that the military has made only minimal progress on several fronts.

A lawyer for Joshua Boyle suggested on Wednesday, April 3, 2019, his wife made up a story that he struck her in the face at their Ottawa apartment in the months after the couple were freed from captivity in Afghanistan.

The estranged wife of Joshua Boyle told a harrowing tale of alleged confinement, abuse and non-consensual sex on Friday, March 29, 2019, as she described how he struck her, tied her ankles and wrists with rope and forced himself on her during an incident after the couple returned to Canada from a five-year ordeal as hostages in Afghanistan.

The mayor of Port Moody, B.C., says he is taking a leave of absence to clear his name after being charged with sexual assault.

Caitlan Coleman, who was backpacking in Afghanistan with husband Joshua Boyle when the pair were seized by extremists in 2012, told a judge Wednesday her spouse regularly punished her with spankings for arguing with him or disobeying his wishes.

Former Afghanistan hostage Joshua Boyle made a frantic, late-night 911 call in December 2017 to say his wife Caitlan Coleman had run screaming from their Ottawa apartment, threatening to kill herself.