Politics Insider: Canada’s Supreme Court tightens rules for youth offender sentencing

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Hello and welcome to Politics Insider. Let’s take a look at what happened this week. Canada’s Supreme Court has made it more difficult for judges to sentence youth offenders convicted of serious crimes, such as first-degree murder, as adults for their actions. David Ebner reports that, in two related decisions today, the top court provided added detail on how the law should be interpreted by the lower courts. In Canada, few young people are convicted of such serious crimes, and thereafter sentenced as adults, but the decisions are still likely to represent important precedents in how lower courts decide these...