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Crown closes its evidence in Michel Cadotte murder case
Michel Cadotte felt “like a murderer” while he sought a medically assisted death for his wife. The revelation — among others that give insight into Cadotte’s state of mind at the time — was contained...
View ArticleBeing a mother ‘defined me,’ Adele Sorella tells murder trial
Adele Sorella took the witness stand in her murder case on Tuesday and told the jury that the hyperbaric chamber at the heart of her case was snuck into her home on orders from her husband while he was...
View ArticleAdele Sorella cannot remember the day her daughters died, murder trial hears
Adele Sorella says she has very little recollection of the day her two daughters died. Sorella is in her second day of testimony at the Laval courthouse, where she is charged with the first-degree...
View ArticleAdele Sorella could not tell right from wrong on day daughters died:...
It is highly probable Adele Sorella was in a state of disassociation if she killed her daughters, a psychiatrist told the jury at the accused’s murder trial on Thursday. Psychiatrist Gilles Chamberland...
View ArticleLack of anglo rehab services cited as sex offender gets early release
A former Notre-Dame-de-Grâce massage therapist who sexually assaulted seven clients has been granted an early release contrary to the recommendations of his parole officer. David Kost, 50, is to leave...
View ArticleMUHC superhospital: Guilty plea but no jail for former SNC-Lavalin CEO
Former SNC-Lavalin CEO Pierre Duhaime will serve no time behind bars despite his guilty plea in “the biggest fraud in Canadian history.” Duhaime, 64, was to go on trial Monday to face charges stemming...
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Beaconsfield resident gets 54-month prison term for drug smuggling
Three men — one from the West Island, two from Ontario — have been sentenced to prison terms for conspiring to smuggle large quantities of drugs into Canada. The sentences were delivered at the...
View ArticleQuebec’s top 10 most-wanted list: SQ nabs alleged Montreal Hells Angel
An alleged member of the Hells Angels’ Montreal chapter is expected to appear before a judge at the Montreal courthouse on Wednesday after having avoided arrest in an organized crime investigation for...
View ArticlePsychiatrist cites depression, stress at Michel Cadotte murder trial
Michel Cadotte’s decision-making process was affected by depression the day he killed his long-suffering wife with a pillow, a psychiatrist has told his murder trial. Louis Morissette took the witness...
View ArticleWoman charged with crashing ex-Canadien Kassian's truck to learn fate May 3
The woman charged with injuring hockey player Zack Kassian by crashing his truck into a tree during his very short stint with the Montreal Canadiens will learn her fate in three months. After having...
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Woman who denied she was a killer for hire now admits to murder
A woman who once claimed she was forced into falsely confessing to a murder because she felt cornered by an elaborate sting operation by the RCMP now admits she did carry out the murder for hire. The...
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Update: 3 family members die in major fire in Longueuil, 11 injured
Three people have died as the result of a major fire that broke out in an apartment building in Longueuil early Saturday morning. The victims were a couple in their 40s and the mother of one of the...
View ArticleSNC-Lavalin head was more than 'willfully ignorant,' evidence alleged
Court documents prepared during the investigation into how the consortium led by SNC-Lavalin fixed the bid to build and maintain McGill University Health Centre superhospital contain witness accounts...
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Drugs and cash seized in RCMP raids in Montreal and Toronto
The RCMP launched a major operation on Monday they said was aimed at breaking an international money-laundering ring with links in Toronto and Montreal. RCMP officers in Quebec and Ontario as well as...
View ArticleUpdate: Highway 13 North in Laval re-opens after tanker truck flips
Northbound Highway 13 in Laval at Notre Dame Blvd. in the city’s Chomedey district has reopened after having been closed to traffic for six hours when a tanker truck flipped onto its side after...
View ArticleCocaine smuggler with ties to the Mafia shot dead in Laval
An ambitious cocaine smuggler who had ties to the Montreal Mafia died in a hospital early Thursday afternoon after he was shot in Laval’s Vimont district just before midnight Wednesday. Sgt. Louise...
View ArticleCiting delay, judge stays charges against SNC-Lavalin executive, lawyer
A former SNC-Lavalin vice-president and a Montreal lawyer have seen a stay of proceedings placed on charges alleging they tampered with a witness in the RCMP’s investigation into whether the...
View ArticleConvicted killer Denis Bégin on the loose after escaping from federal...
A man serving a life sentence for a murder he committed in Montreal more than two decades ago is on the loose after he escaped from a minimum-security penitentiary in Laval on Friday. Correctional...
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Defence targets crime-scene investigation in Sorella murder trial
Adele Sorella’s lawyer began his closing arguments in her murder trial by criticizing the work that crime scene investigators did in the hours after her two daughters were found dead inside the...
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Was attempted murder in the West Island a botched Mafia hit?
A sentencing hearing is to begin at the Montreal courthouse Thursday in a case involving a shooting in Dollard-des-Ormeaux where the gunman might have selected the wrong target while attempting to kill...
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