MONTREAL — Jurors at Luka Rocco Magnotta's first-degree murder trial were sequestered on Monday. Here are some numbers from the proceedings:
Days jury heard evidence: 40
Weeks taken to hear evidence: 10
Witnesses heard by jury in total: 66
Crown witnesses: 52
Defence witnesses: 14
Charges accused is facing: 5
Jurors initially selected: 16
Jurors who heard case: 14
Jurors who will decide case: 12
Seats set aside for media and public in main courtroom: 5 each
MONCTON, N.B. - Justin Bourque targeted police officers because of "the badge they wore" when he shot three RCMP officers dead and wounded two others in Moncton, N.B., the Crown said as a sentencing hearing got underway Monday.
EDMONTON - Voters in four Alberta ridings go to the polls today in what opposition politicians call a referendum on the Progressive Conservative government.
WINNIPEG - A lawyer for a senior Manitoba judge facing removal over nude photographs of her posted on the Internet says the case should be thrown out because it revictimizes the victim.
VANCOUVER - Don't be afraid of bats this Halloween. Be afraid for them, warn biologists tracking a disease that has nearly wiped out the airborne mammals in Eastern Canada.
OTTAWA - The Transportation Safety Board says the country's two largest railways and the regional carrier responsible for the Lac-Megantic fire failed to meet their obligations for filing accident information.
HAMILTON - Mourners wishing to pay tribute to the soldier killed at the National War Memorial in Ottawa will have a chance to express their grief today at a public visitation in his hometown.