Crime and Punishment
The Latimer case underlines hard truths about Canada’s legal system. March 2011
On October 24, 1993, Robert Latimer’s life as a private individual, a farmer, husband and family man quietly living in a rural home near the small town of Wilkie, Saskatchewan, came to an end. He began a new existence that included two trips through the Saskatchewan judicial system, both winding up at the Supreme Court of…