Weir, however, said the move is in retaliation for his own claim that the harassment complaint levelled against him in January was not only unfounded, but a politically motivated attempt to punish him.
The felling of a favoured peacock perch in a Surrey, B.C., neighbourhood has exposed a divide between locals who like the beautiful birds and those frustrated with the noise, mess and property damage.
"The media hasn't been kind to me. I receive a lot of death threats, rape threats regularly. There are a lot of consequences to being someone that speaks publicly about sexual assault.
A local pathologist determined that the 52-year-old Matus, who lived part of the year in the Central American country, and Drew DeVoursney, 36, a former marine from Georgia, had died of strangulation.
Police in Ontario say a 16-year-old girl who was taken to Mexico and hadn't been seen since last July has been reunited with her family.
Mounties in southwestern Manitoba have laid animal cruelty charges against the owners of a horse that was so emaciated it had to be killed.