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| <div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">December 15, 2022</div>
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| Two new offences relating to [[Miscellaneous_Offences_Against_the_Person#Trafficking_in_Human_Organs|trafficking in human organs]] came into force.
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| <div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">November 17, 2022</div>
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| [[List_of_Criminal_Code_Amendments_(2020_to_present)#2022,_c._15|Amendments come into force]] that removes minimum jail sentences for various firearms, weapons and drug trafficking-related offences and expands [[Conditional Sentences|conditional sentence]] eligibility to include most previously ineligible offences. It also introduced Part I.1 to the CDSA, which directs police and Crown to consider non-criminal options for all drug possession offences.
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| <div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">October 28, 2022</div>
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| Supreme Court of Canada in {{CanLIIR|Ndhlovu|jsnhh|2022 SCC 38 (CanLII)}}{{perSCC|Karakatsanis and Martin JJ}} strikes down the provisions requiring offenders convicted of multiple sexual offences to be put on the sexual offender registry for life. The law violated s. 7 of the ''Charter'' for being "overbroad".
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| <div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">June 30, 2022</div>
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| Supreme Court of Canada in {{CanLIIR|JJ|jq1d8|2022 SCC 28 (CanLII)}}{{perSCC|Wagner CJ and Moldaver J}} upholds the constitutionality of the statutory protections to [[Admission of Records for Sexual Offences|complainants' personal information]] found in s. 278.92 to 278.94 of the Code.
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| <div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">June 23, 2022</div>
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| Amendments coming into force rewriting s. 33.1 of the Code concerning the [[Prohibition on Intoxication Defences (Unconstitutional)|extreme intoxication defence for certain violent offences]].
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| <div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">May 27, 2022</div>
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| Supreme Court of Canada in {{CanLIIR|Bissonnette|jpf5d|2022 SCC 23 (CanLII)}}{{perSCC|Wagner CJ}} declares s. 745.51 of the Code unconstitutional, removing the statutory requirement that the periods of parole ineligibility for multiple murders be served consecutively.
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| <div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">May 13, 2022</div>
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| Supreme Court of Canada in {{CanLIIR|Sullivan|jp64b|2022 SCC 19}}{{perSCC|Kasirer J}} declares s. 33.1 of the Code unconstitutional, removing the statutory prohibition against [[Prohibition on Intoxication Defences (Unconstitutional)|self-induced intoxication defences]] for certain offences.
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| <div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">January 16, 2022</div>
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| Amendments creating a new offences relating to [[Intimidation Impeding Health Services (Offence)|impeding health care services]] came into force.
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| <div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">January 7, 2022</div>
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| Amendments creating new offences relating to [[Conversion Therapy (Offence)|conversion therapy]] came into force.
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| <div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">May 6, 2021</div>
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| An amendment, [[Sexual_Offences#Reasons_for_Judgement|adding s. 278.98 to the ''Criminal Code'']], came into force.
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| <div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">April 8, 2021</div>
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| ''Feature Update'': Look up offences quickly using the "Quick Access" link on the Navigation sidebar.
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| <div style="font-size:120%; font-weight:bold;">May 8, 2020</div>
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| ''Feature Update'': Quotations from most legislation now include an option to note up the provision on CanLII.
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