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 — An on-the-ground police commander at the Toronto G20 protests in 2010 says he told command headquarters that not everyone boxed in by officers was a demonstrator.
OTTAWA — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie emerged today from a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper touting the Canada-U.S. relationship.
TORONTO — A 12-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy have been charged with abduction, robbery and other offences after a Toronto mother said two young people tried to snatch her baby.
MONTREAL — Dec. 6 marks the 25th anniversary of the shooting rampage at the Universite du Montreal's Ecole polytechnique in which 14 women were killed. In alphabetical order, they were:
Doctors in B.C. have signed a five-year agreement, which the government says will improve care in rural and remote communities.
OTTAWA — The push is on yet again to have Canada resettle refugees from the civil war in Syria, even though the Harper government is struggling to live up to the resettlement promises it has already made.