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Former project manager at Jewish General Hospital sentenced to house arrest
A former project manager at the Jewish General Hospital has been sentenced to house arrest for his role in a scam where companies hired to do maintenance billed the institution for work that was...
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Laval corruption trial: Too focused to be involved in collusion, Accurso...
The sky was never a limit while he was building his empire, construction entrepreneur Antonio Accurso said to a jury in a boastful moment during his criminal trial on Thursday. Humility is apparently...
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Jury to deliberate on Antonio Accurso's case by next week
The jury hearing evidence in the case against Antonio Accurso will begin deliberating toward a verdict next week. The construction entrepreneur is charged with taking part in a system of collusion and...
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House arrest for Collège Notre-Dame pedophile priest
A priest who taught at Collège Notre-Dame decades ago and admitted on Tuesday to having sexually abused a teenage boy at the school has been sentenced to 15 months of house arrest. Using a walker and...
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Murder trial begins two decades after woman was killed in Roxboro
A jury has finally begun hearing evidence in a trial involving the murder of Juthlande Pierre, a 42-year-old woman who was killed more than two decades ago in the West Island. Dieuseul Jean, 56, is...
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Terror trial facing a significant delay, jury told
The jury hearing the trial of Sabrine Djermane and El Mahdi Jamali returned to the Montreal courthouse for the first time in a week on Tuesday, only to find out the case is now faced with a...
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Mob-tied lawyer goes before parole board for first time since gangsterism plea
The longtime Montreal defence lawyer who served as a bridge between criminal organizations while they sought to control drug trafficking in the city is scheduled to go before the Parole Board of Canada...
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Men who pulled off armoured car heist in Pointe-Claire sentenced to time served
Two men with extensive criminal records who pulled off a brazen armoured car heist in broad daylight in Pointe-Claire last year will be free men on Thursday after the Crown did an about face in their...
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Accurso's lawyer attacks witness credibility in closing arguments
Antonio Accurso’s lawyer called the credibility of several Crown witnesses into question while making his closing arguments in the jury trial where the construction entrepreneur is alleged to have...
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Former Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt granted day parole
Former Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt has been granted day parole on the sentence he received in December when he pleaded guilty to the system of collusion he ran while awarding city contracts to...
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Accurso mistrial update: Relative said 'it was like a Mafia,' Juror No. 6 says
Loose lips sunk the ship that was Antonio Accurso’s fraud and municipal corruption trial in Laval. A juror’s inability to respect two cardinal rules that come with being part of a jury trial in Canada...
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Quebec judge who said victim 'has a pretty face' removed from sex-assault case
A judge who made controversial comments toward the 17-year-old victim of a sexual assault has been removed from the case at the Montreal courthouse as it enters the sentencing stage. Quebec Court...
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Terror trial: Djermane and Jamali choose not to mount a defence
The lawyers representing the young Montreal couple charged with a series of terror-related offences will not mount a defence in the case. Attorneys Charles Benmouyal and Tiago Murias made the...
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Maxi murder: Randy Tshilumba files notice of appeal
A lawyer representing Randy Tshilumba has filed a notice of appeal of the jury’s verdict that found him guilty last month of first-degree murder in the death of Clémence Beaulieu-Patry. During the...
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Montreal man charged with first-degree murder of stepson
A 75-year-old man appeared before a Quebec Court judge at the Montreal courthouse on Monday and was charged with the first-degree murder of his stepson. Gilles Marion said very little when his case...
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Man who was on Quebec's most-wanted list found guilty of 2nd-degree murder
Harinder Singh Cheema, a man who was on Quebec’s most wanted list for years when he disappeared after he stabbed his wife, was found guilty of second-degree murder. A jury that had been deliberating...
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Environmental group asks court to halt REM light-rail train system
An environmental group is challenging the provincial government in court and alleging Quebec is ramming through the Réseau électrique métropolitain (REM) light-rail train system while attempting to...
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Pedophile who 'ruined the lives of many children' to be sentenced in December
A man who once served as the director general of the city of Lorraine for more than two decades will be sentenced in December for having sexually abused four boys, including at least a couple during a...
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Former Hells Angel leader no longer required to reside at halfway house
A man who was once one of the most powerful Hells Angels in Quebec has gained another step toward freedom on the sentence he is serving for plotting to murder rival gang members as the Parole Board of...
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Claude Deguise: Laval's former head of engineering is granted early parole
The city of Laval’s former director of engineering will be released to a halfway house sometime next month after having served only five months of a 30-month federal prison term he received this past...
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