When someone touches another person, directly or indirectly, without that person’s consent it is an assault. It is also an assault when the person attempts or threatens to touch another person. This is a criminal offence, whether or not the victim has any physical injuries.

This is assault when the person carries, uses or threatens to use a weapon or an imitation of a weapon or causes physical harm that interferes with the health or comfort of the victim.

This is assault that involves wounding, maiming, disfiguring or endangering the life of the victim.

Using force to enter with intent to cause harm. This includes breaking into not only houses, but any building or structure.

This is the legal term for stalking. It is illegal for someone to repeatedly follow someone from place to place, repeatedly communicate with that person, spend time outside that person’s house or workplace, or make threats against the person, if it causes that other person to fear for her safety.

Forcing someone to remain somewhere or interfering with (blocking) the person from leaving a place is forcible confinement.

Any murder or homicide that does not meet the definition of 1st or 2nd degree murder is said to be manslaughter. Practically speaking, manslaughter is when someone is doing something wrong and someone else ends up dead as a result of it and the offender did not intend to kill or cause significant bodily harm. 

When someone willfully destroys or damages someone else’s property, or interferes with the regular use of property. This can include destroying or altering computer data, or denying access to computer data to a person who is entitled to access it.

Murder is not limited to crimes where the offender actually intends to kill the other person. Simply intending to cause significant bodily harm can meet the definition. Murder is classified as either 1st degree or 2nd degree. 1st Degree Murder is the most serious charge of murder. It includes acts that are planned and deliberate. 2nd Degree Murder is any murder that does not meet the definition of 1st degree murder is deemed to be 2nd degree murder.

Any unwanted touching of sexual nature is a sexual assault. This can range from touching of sexual parts of the body to vaginal or anal penetration. As with other assaults, if weapons are involved or there is serious physical injury, the charge can become either sexual assault with a weapon or aggravated sexual assault.

While trespassing is usually defined as the unlawful entry onto the private land of another, it also includes performing an unlawful activity on the land and refusing to leave when told to do so. The Criminal Code makes it an offence to loiter or prowl at night (9 pm – 6 am) on the property of another person near a dwelling situated on that property.

It is a criminal offence to utter a threat to kill or seriously harm another person, to destroy another person’s property or to injure or kill an animal or bird belonging to another person.