Monday, December 22, 2025
ADVT 
National

Judge To Rule On Bail Application Of Man Accused Of Murdering Halifax Student

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 23 Oct, 2015 08:00 PM
    HALIFAX — A judge in Halifax says he'll issue a ruling today in the bail hearing for a 23-year-old man charged in the death of a Dalhousie University student.
     
    William Sandeson is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Taylor Samson.
     
     
    Sandeson, who was enrolled in medical school at Dalhousie, was charged Aug. 20, four days after Samson was reported missing in Halifax.
     
    A publication ban has been placed on evidence presented during the hearing.
     
    Linda Boutilier, Samson's mother, has said outside court that police still haven't found her son's body.
     
    Samson, a 22-year-old former resident of Amherst, N.S., studied physics at Dalhousie.

    MORE National ARTICLES

    Richard Oland Crime Scene Was Among Bloodiest Officer Had Seen: Court Hears

    Richard Oland Crime Scene Was Among Bloodiest Officer Had Seen: Court Hears
    Sgt. Mark Smith is facing cross-examination today in the second-degree murder trial of Dennis Oland in New Brunswick's Court of Queen's Bench.

    Richard Oland Crime Scene Was Among Bloodiest Officer Had Seen: Court Hears

    Conservatives Dump Jagdish Grewal Who Supported Therapies To Turn Gay Youth Straight

    Conservatives Dump Jagdish Grewal Who Supported Therapies To Turn Gay Youth Straight
    Jagdish Grewal, who is running in Mississauga-Malton, wrote an editorial entitled "Is it wrong for a homosexual to become a normal person?" that referred to homosexuality as "unnatural behaviour" and heterosexuals as "normal."

    Conservatives Dump Jagdish Grewal Who Supported Therapies To Turn Gay Youth Straight

    CBC TV Show Gets Man New Crack At Lawsuit Against Job-promising Agency

    CBC TV Show Gets Man New Crack At Lawsuit Against Job-promising Agency
    In what the Appeal Court called "most unusual" circumstances, the justices said a lower court was wrong to deny Golam Mehedi a chance to reopen his case given the post-trial broadcast.

    CBC TV Show Gets Man New Crack At Lawsuit Against Job-promising Agency

    Crash Complicates Canadian Tour Of Country Singer Jason Aldean

    Crash Complicates Canadian Tour Of Country Singer Jason Aldean
    Aldean's 2015 Burn It Down tour played in Kamloops, B.C., on Monday night and was headed to a Tuesday performance in Prince George, when all those cliches about trucks, dirt roads and disaster played out.

    Crash Complicates Canadian Tour Of Country Singer Jason Aldean

    Underground Lab In Nickel Mine In Sudbury, Ont., Probes Mysterious Neutrinos

    Underground Lab In Nickel Mine In Sudbury, Ont., Probes Mysterious Neutrinos
    It's called SNOLAB, a cavernous "clean" lab that was able to detect minuscule particles known as neutrinos. 

    Underground Lab In Nickel Mine In Sudbury, Ont., Probes Mysterious Neutrinos

    Four Indo-Canadians In Top Civic Firm's Fellowship

    Four Indo-Canadians In Top Civic Firm's Fellowship
    The four Indians are Anita Abraham, Ritesh Kotak, Mrinalini Menon and Pam Sethi.

    Four Indo-Canadians In Top Civic Firm's Fellowship