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
TORONTO - Paul Gully wanted to make a contribution. Eilish Cleary had worked before in West Africa and knew what it takes to work effectively there. And as West Africa's Ebola epidemic continues to evade control, other Canadian health-care workers are assessing the overwhelming need and thinking about whether they too should step forward.
WINNIPEG - A member of Parliament who received a severance package when he left provincial politics says he has decided to donate it all to charity.
TORONTO - Experimental Ebola vaccine that Canada has donated to the World Health Organization will be shipped to Geneva next week, the global health agency said Thursday.
"Mr. Hockey: My Story," a new book by Gordie Howe, hits the shelves Oct. 14. The 86-year-old Howe, who has a form of dementia, is not doing media interviews to promote the book. However, publisher Viking has provided exclusively to The Canadian Press the text of a Q and A between Howe and Wayne Gretzky, which was conducted by email in September.
HALIFAX - Former residents of the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children who allege they were abused at the Halifax orphanage for years are set to receive an apology today from Premier Stephen McNeil.
VANCOUVER - Fifteen years as leader of the B.C. Federation of Labour is enough for Jim Sinclair, who will not be seeking re-election of the organization that speaks for 500,000 union members.