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
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A man charged in the stabbing of an 11-year-old boy on a soccer field in Newfoundland has been found mentally fit to stand trial after a 60-day psychiatric assessment.
WINNIPEG — A teen who was viciously beaten, assaulted and left to die beside a Winnipeg river was planning Thursday to meet the men who rescued her.
YELLOWKNIFE — A small passenger plane with seven people on board made a forced landing in bad weather on the ice of Great Slave Lake on Thursday.
EDMONTON — Watching an old disaster movie gave a University of Alberta scientist an idea that could revolutionize environmental and climate change tracking.
OTTAWA — Condominiums accounted for more than one-third of all Canadian housing starts last year, and more than half of the total in several of the country's biggest cities, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says.
Tim Schouls, political studies instructor at Capilano University put it blunt when he said, “In the general sense, the Conservatives are in a bit of trouble,” citing a number of areas, most especially the Senate scandal, which choked up national headlines back in 2012 when the entire situation unraveled at the behest of the work of auditor general, Michael Ferguson.