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
VICTORIA — Finance Minister Mike de Jong says he supports Advanced Education Minister Amrik Virk despite ordering a renewed investigation of new documents connected to the former Mountie.
MONTREAL — Shoppers will be losing another Canadian retail option after Reitmans announced Tuesday it is closing all of its Smart Set clothing stores.
TORONTO — After 175 years, Quebec-based Simons is primed to make a major expansion push beyond the province with stores in five new cities across Canada.
TORONTO — Scandal-plagued former radio host Jian Ghomeshi has reached an agreement with the CBC to withdraw his $55-million lawsuit against the public broadcaster, a CBC spokesman said on Tuesday.
NEWMARKET, Ont. — A woman accused of arranging to have her parents murdered in a staged home invasion had nothing to do with the real robbery that led to her mother's death at the hands of a "psychopathic killer" desperate for cash, her lawyer said Tuesday.
TORONTO — One of Canada's leading weather watchers has bad news for anyone hoping to avoid the deep freeze of last winter — you're probably out of luck.