It was originally deemed a suicide, but a police investigation led detectives to a different conclusion. Delisle was arrested and charged in June 2010.

The issue of dual citizenship has generated controversy in the past with former Liberal leader Stephane Dion and with Michaelle Jean, who gave up her French citizenship to become governor general.

“The day serves as a reminder that violations of press freedom occur in countries around the world where journalists, editors, publishers are harassed, detained, attacked and killed,” said Mayor Ford, who has himself been embroiled in a public dispute

His 19-year-old son was suspended last week after he refused to abide by a principal's request to stop wearing a bright yellow shirt bearing the message, "Life is wasted without Jesus." The South Shore Regional School Board decided Friday he would be allo

McClintic testified that Rafferty urged her to kidnap a young girl for him, that he made several stops before driving to a rural location and raping the girl, and that pent-up rage from her own childhood traumas caused McClintic to snap and murder Tori.

The budget bill — which includes reforms to environmental regulations, fisheries management and immigration law, among other things — has been widely condemned by opposition parties, environmentalists and other advocacy groups.

UPDATE: 11:03 After years of investigation more than two months of testimony, Crown Attorney Kevin Gowdey began his final argument Tuesday for convicting Michael Rafferty for the 2009 murder of eight-year-old Victoria (Tori) Stafford.

McClintic, who is already serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to first-degree murder, testified that Rafferty urged her to kidnap a young girl for him, that he raped the girl, and that pent-up rage from her own childhood traumas caused McClintic

OTTAWA -- The Conservative government has hired a private-sector lawyer -- at taxpayers' expense -- to represent Prime Minister Stephen Harper and three others who are among those being sued for defamation by former Tory cabinet minister Helena Guergis, P

MONTREAL - The RCMP says it has dismantled a criminal organization that was allegedly involved in an international payment-card scam.

"Such slurs against the Jewish community violate the values that Canadians hold dear, such as goodwill and mutual respect," Sheldon Goodman, the centre's Greater Toronto co-chairman, said in a statement. "Instead of promoting such values, this curriculum

The New Democrats said earlier today they believe the bill centralizes too much power in the hands of the minister and does nothing to stop the problem of human smuggling.

Ford said he gave police incriminating video of the reporter but Dale said he was on public property, looking at parkland the mayor is trying to buy.

Rafferty and Terri-Lynne McClintic were "a terrible team, a murderous duo," but Rafferty was the mastermind and must be convicted of the murder of Tori Stafford, Crown attorney Kevin Gowdey said Wednesday as he wrapped up his final argument.

In a statement issued late Wednesday, MacKay says he intends to inform the families of Williams' victims "of this terrible mistake" and offer his sincere apologies "on behalf of the entire military family."

Earlier, during the Air India investigation, she said she was dragged along on pointless trips to Eastern Canada to meet with victims' families. She said there was no news to impart, but her superior used the road trips as an opportunity to try to have se

Rae noted even under the Conservatives' plan, eventually people leave prison, and it's better if they leave prepared. The "bizarre" measures will discourage inmates from taking those steps, he said.

A proposed private members' bill would make it a crime for protesters to wear a mask or disguise while participating in a riot or unlawful assembly, and this week the Harper government put its weight behind the legislation.

"Then we have a very small portion that is from individual citizens who just happen to live outside of Canada. For example, sometimes we have people who sponsor a child through World Vision Canada, then they move to another country but want to continue sp

Toews sent a letter Tuesday to all provincial chief firearms officers, saying the collection of point-of-sale data is no longer authorized under the Firearms Act.

TORONTO - The Globe and Mail will soon move to an online pay-per-view model, the newspaper told employees Thursday as ...

"I want to thank my daughter's birthmother for giving me the opportunity to raise Kristen," Sorenson told the crowd, speaking of his now adult child. "It's an honour to stand for life and if you think that I'm making a vocal stand, you should meet my daug

The findings are among a number of troubling details about Rafferty's character that the court deemed inadmissible. The evidence has been made public now that the jury is sequestered.

Dozens of students obtained similar injunctions earlier this year but schools have usually stayed closed, officially to avoid confrontations with picketers.

Such fears have been intensifying now that the summer festival season is approaching. Montreal's famous comedy and jazz festivals, and Formula One parties, tend to be concentrated near the streets and public squares that have been awash in frequent protes

"You listened attentively to the evidence, to the submissions and to the charge. And when you deliberated on your verdict, you did not rush to judgment, but you took the time that was needed to carefully consider the evidence before arriving at a decision

Ontario Provincial Police Supt. Chris Wyatt said Friday that, while he's not looking to pick a fight with Ottawa, the maintenance of point-of-sale ledgers is critical because they help ensure firearms are not acquired by criminals, unlicensed people or th

It has been a long road for Tori's family filled not with ups and downs but rather plummets and plateaus. The first hours and days after Tori vanished at 3:32 p.m. on April 8, 2009, were filled with panic. The days then turned into weeks with no real news

"I would have to go so far as to say I think that's really poor taste, especially with students struggling and the debate about tuition and the cost of post-secondary education that minister would take tickets on the back of students and go and enjoy them

The message warned Americans travelling to Montreal that although businesses remain open, traffic and public transportation may be disrupted. Tourists were told they could run into demonstrations and, while most of them have been peaceful, some can turn "

MONTREAL - Four suspects will be charged with committing a terrorism-related prank following smoke-bomb attacks that crippled the Montreal subway ...

Police say the first plane they found was submerged in a small body of water and their investigation has determined it collided with the second plane.

In the year leading up to Rafferty's arrest he dated Charity Spitzig while seeing all sorts of other women. She thought they were exclusive and to help him out financially she began working as an escort and gave him her earnings, to the tune of more than

The provincial government plans to prohibit cabinet ministers from accepting free tickets to Jets games from Crown corporations such as Manitoba Hydro and the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission. Some readers were outraged over the freebies, some took umbr

RCMP Cpl. Rob King says remains of some of the victims were still at the scene on Sunday, he said. Police have been securing the scene until TSB investigators arrive. It's a difficult job, King says, because the wreckage is scattered over such a large are

A spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board says the plane went down along Highway 97 near Peachland, southwest of Kelowna.

When news headlines trumpet gruesome details of violence against children, such as those that emerged from the London, Ont. courtroom where Rafferty was tried for murder, Schafer said it's easy to lose sight of the fact that most attacks are perpetrated b

OTTAWA - The ongoing economic woes in Europe will be no doubt a major topic of discussion when Prime Minister Harper sits down with his Polish counterpart today.

Initial reports said five people were aboard the de Havilland Beaver aircraft when it went down on Sunday evening near the community of Peachland, southwest of Kelowna.

ST. BRIEUX, Sask. - An official with the Transportation Safety Board says the bodies of five people killed in a mid-air collision over Saskatchewan have been recovered.

VANCOUVER - When hang glider pilot William Orders set out to take a young woman soaring through the skies over scenic British Columbia last month, his goal was to give her an "amazing adventure" and "lots of smiles."

The first proposal involves giving Li extended privileges within the Selkirk facility, based on the rapid progress he is making while receiving medical care. Since last summer, he has been allowed passes out of his locked forensic unit to walk on hospital

William (Jon) Orders told reporters in Vancouver Monday he was under "overwhelming stress" after Lenami Godinez-Avila plunged 300 metres from the tandem hang-glider he was flying.

About one-third of post-secondary students in Quebec are boycotting classes in a protest against tuition hikes that has lasted more than three months.

"You have snuffed out the life of a beautiful, talented, vivacious little girl, a 'tomboy diva' in the trustful innocence of childhood. And for what? So that you could gratify your twisted and deviant desire to have sex with a child. Only a monster c

"To initiate the investigation... basically it was a storm, it (came) from everywhere," said Fortin. "There were so many different members that heard about this on their time off because people were calling them."

A few hours later, after staff meetings, the college issued a statement: Lionel-Groulx would remain closed for two more days, on Wednesday and Thursday. The professors said they were too emotional to be able to teach classes regularly.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 21 people were killed on Tuesday in an attack in northern Syria, activists said, and members of a team of U.N. monitors caught in the incident said they were in rebel hands "for their own protection." When Reuters asked one of

But during the 10-minute standoff, most of the students eventually gave up and left the classroom, as did the teacher. Some of those who remained got into heated discussions with the protesters, as they yelled obscenities at each other.

OTTAWA - The UN's special rapporteur for food is irking the federal government by calling on Ottawa to do something about the 800,000 households in Canada that can't be sure of their next meal.

The program was introduced last year to replace the old food mail program. Nutrition North subsidizes the cost of certain foods between five cents a kilogram and $1.60 a kilogram in 14 Manitoba First Nations. The amount depends on the location of the rese

Indeed, Liberals defeated Harper's minority government last spring on a contempt-of-Parliament motion. During the subsequent election campaign, Ignatieff repeatedly exhorted Canadians to "rise up" against what he described as Harper's "ruthless, relentles

TDSB spokeswoman Shari Schwartz-Maltz says East End Madrassah will have to find a new meeting place until the police investigation is complete, adding the board has also requested a meeting with school officials to ensure their teachings are in line with

Polls suggest Charest's unpopular government, facing a longshot re-election bid, might actually have public support for its tuition hikes. But the premier has responded angrily in recent weeks when accused of encouraging a climate of confrontation for his

The members asked the B.C. Environment Ministry to require that a registered engineer always “supervise and approve” the design and construction of all aspects of composting facilities, and change regulations so facilities actively aerate their brown-

Thousands spilled into the streets of Montreal late Wednesday and it was a peaceful demonstration until some people began smashing bank windows and hurling objects at police. A scuffle broke out when an angry passerby reportedly started heckling the prote

The intrusions at the Université du Québec Montréal were orchestrated by protesters seeking to enforce their declared strikes. They resented the fact some students had used legal injunctions to return to school.

De Schutter called for a national food strategy that takes into account issues including an agricultural policy geared toward exports rather than domestic consumption and social assistance and minimum wage rates that are too low for families to afford hea

Zampino vacationed on Accurso's yacht before and after one of Accurso's companies was awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to install water meters as part of a consortium.

Misbahuddin Ahmed and Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh of Ottawa, and Khurram Syed Sher, of London, Ont., were arrested in August 2010 in the case known as Project Samossa.

The budget bill has prompted an outcry from opposition parties, who say the legislation is packed with so many poorly defined changes that it poses more questions than it answers — not just on the environment, but also on employment insurance and old ag

"That's interesting he would say that because this notion of a destination is really the basis of our rebranding to become a district, so we can offer a multitude of entertainment options on sight. We've got a little work to do to broaden that menu of ent

2009: In an unprovoked attack, 27-year-old Darryl Lawrence Monkman grabbed a knife and killed his cousin, 38-year-old Kelly Godfrey, as both of the men's spouses watched. At the time, Monkman was delusional, believing Godfrey had a microchip implanted in

It suggests some 2,712 refugees older than 65 cost the government $7.4 million in 2000-2010. Based on data collected between 1980 and 2010, Citizenship and Immigration estimates there were about 275,000 immigrant parents and grandparents over 65 living in

July 30, 2008 -- Vince Li boards a westbound Greyhound Canada bus and takes a seat next to Tim McLean, 22, one row in front of the bathroom. While McLean dozes, Li stabs him to death. At this point, the bus is just west of Portage la Prairie. Li beheads a

April 1975: Charles's naval career brings him into Canadian waters for three weeks during a stint aboard HMS Hermes. He also takes time to spend three days in Ottawa and make a week-long visit to the Northwest Territories.

Bill 78 also lays out strict regulations governing student demonstrations, including having to give eight hours notice for details such as the itinerary, the duration and the time at which they are being held.

Tommy Taylor, who was among 1,100 people detained, complained bitterly that despite the damning report — which noted most of the 19,000 officers on the streets conducted themselves appropriately — no one had been held accountable for the very real pro

Police reported an explosive device being launched. A Canadian Press photographer reported seeing at least two and there were other reports of multiple devices being tossed. Projectiles were also tossed at police — who responded with tear gas and noise

The legislation provides for fines of between $1,000 and $5,000 for any individual who prevents someone from entering an educational institution. Penalties climb to between $7,000 and $35,000 for a student leader and to between $25,000 and $125,000 for un

The judicial council is holding a hearing today to determine the parameters of the inquiry, which could lead to the judge being removed from the bench.

An Air Canada pilot heads to work as at Pearson International Airport in Toronto in this March 8, 2012 photo. The union representing Air Canada pilots says a last attempt to reach a negotiated settlement has failed and the dispute will be going to arbitra

MONTREAL – Two provincial government websites as well as the site for the governing Quebec Liberal Party went down early Saturday morning and remained inaccessible for most of the day.

There are also three winning tickets for the 20 MaxMillions prizes of $1 million each in Friday's draw.

The royal couple will arrive at Saint John International Airport in New Brunswick late this evening but their four-day tour will begin in earnest tomorrow - Victoria Day - with an official welcome ceremony at the Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, where the p

The two sides were to meet with federal arbitrator Doug Stanley, likely within days. He is to lay out the rules for the arbitration process. The two sides would both submit proposals to Stanley who is to pick one of them as the basis of a new contract.

The inquiry is the latest in the fallout from the 2010 public revelation that Douglas's husband, Winnipeg lawyer Jack King, had exhorted former client Alex Chapman to enter into a sexual relationship with his wife. Chapman claimed King had given him nude

There, Charles and Gov.-Gen. David Johnston will deliver speeches. The royal couple will also visit the Prince's Operation Entrepreneur program, which helps military personnel transition to civilian life by starting and growing their own businesses.

In an attempt to avoid hefty fines, one prominent student group took down its web page Saturday that listed all upcoming protests. Another anonymous web page with listings quickly popped up in its place -- with a note discouraging people from attending.

Still, the law says student associations that don't encourage their members to comply with the law could face punishment. Fines range between $7,000 and $35,000 for student leaders and between $25,000 and $125,000 for student unions or student federations

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Two British adventurers who were planning a record-setting row from St. John's, N.L., to Bristol, England, have called off their expedition after warnings from Canadian ice experts.