2025 Annual Impact Report
We are pleased to share our 2025 impact report! This report highlights our progress and the impact of our work over the past year. These reports are produced annually to keep our supporters informed and...
March 9, 2026 | 3 min read
Innocence Canada Launches New Website
INNOCENCE CANADA LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE TO STRENGTHEN SUPPORT FOR THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED Innocence Canada announces the launch of its newly enhanced website, designed to better support individuals who have been wrongfully convicted and their families,...
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Tim Rees second-degree murder charges withdrawn after 37 years
On Thursday, December 18, 2025, Tim Rees’s charge of second-degree murder in the 1989 murder of 10-year-old Darla Thurrott was withdrawn in the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto. Darla was strangled in her bed...
Ontario Court of Appeal Quashes Tim Rees’ Murder Conviction After 36 Years
On Thursday, November 27, 2025, the Ontario Court of Appeal quashed Tim Rees’s conviction for the 1989 murder of 10-year-old Darla Thurott and ordered a new trial. Darla was strangled in her bed at her...
11th International Wrongful Conviction Day
After nearly five decades of wrongful conviction, Clarence Woodhouse has finally been exonerated. Woodhouse, a member of the Pinaymootang First Nation, was convicted in 1974 for a murder he did not commit. His conviction was...
Robert Sanderson’s Convictions For First Degree Murder Quashed After 29 Years
ROBERT SANDERSON’S CONVICTIONS FOR FIRST DEGREE MURDER QUASHED 29 YEARS AFTER THREE HOMICIDES THAT OCCURRED IN 1996 Robert Sanderson’s convictions for three counts of First-Degree Murder were quashed by the Manitoba Court of Appeal, who...
2024 Annual Impact Report
We are pleased to share our first Impact Report! This report highlights our progress and the impact of our work over the past year. We plan to produce these reports annually to keep our supporters...
UPDATE: Wrongly Convicted Man Granted Bail After Spending 36 Years in Prison
On May 23, 2025, Roy Sobotiak, who has been in prison for more than three decades, was granted bail months after his conviction was quashed by the federal justice minister. PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE...
Sad Passing of Billy Wine a respected friend
It is with great sadness that I must share the passing of Billy Wine, not only a long-time personal friend, but a friend to the wrongly convicted and the organization. Billy was one of a...
Government of Canada moves closer to establishing the Miscarriage of Justice Review Commission
From: Department of Justice Canada News release March 7, 2025 – Ottawa, Ontario – Department of Justice Canada Today, the Honourable Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, announced that important measures to establish...
Justice Minister Virani Quashes Roy Sobotiak’s Second Degree Murder Conviction
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 JUSTICE MINISTER ARIF VIRANI ANNOUNCES THAT HE HAS QUASHED THE SECOND DEGREE MURDER CONVICTION OF ROY ALLAN SOBOTIAK AFTER 35 YEARS. Today, at noon, Minister of Justice Arif Virani announced that...
Two New Brunswick Men Acquitted of a Murder They Were Wrongly Convicted of 40 Years Ago
This afternoon Robert (Bobby) Mailman and Walter (Wally) Gillespie were acquitted by Chief Justice Tracey DeWare of the King’s Bench Court in Saint John, New Brunswick, 40 years after they were wrongly convicted in the...
Indigenous Man Returns to the Court in Winnipeg where He was Convicted 50 Years Ago
More than 49 years ago on March 5, 1974, Clarence Woodhouse, a young Indigenous man, and a member of the Pinaymootang First Nation on the Fairford Indian Reserve in Manitoba, was convicted of the murder...