CBC News The first charges against the alleged looters and vandals in the Stanley Cup riot will be announced by Vancouver police on Monday morning, police have confirmed. Police are not revealing how many people will be charged, but Chief…
A US soldier accused of killing Afghan civilians and keeping their remains as war trophies is to face military trial. It is alleged that Staff Sgt Calvin Gibbs, 26, was the ringleader of a “kill team” that included four other…
By Pulat Yunusov Inmate rights are a lost cause for an average politician. If anything, legislators are more likely to push for harsher sentences, more hurdles to parole, and less money for rehabilitation. Of course, history knows prisoners who survived…
The Toronto Star KINGSTON—The defendants say it’s the site of a tragic accident, the prosecution, a crime scene marking the horrific murder of three daughters and a wife. On Thursday, in a judicial rarity, the jury got to see it…
International prosecutors have had “informal contact” with the son of slain ex-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The International Criminal Court (ICC) said intermediaries had been used in indirect talks with Saif al-Islam. Prosecutors said the court had made it clear to…
by Pulat Yunusov The recent royal visit offers a good chance to talk about monarchy in Canada. Besides just being nice Canadians, the people who greeted the newly married royal couple were often ecstatic, filled with genuine love for the…
Brittany Norwood lost control the night she killed her co-worker at a Bethesda yoga store, her defense attorney said Wednesday as the high-profile trial began.Norwood, 29, and co-worker Jayna Murray, 30, got into a “horrific fight” that March night, Douglas…
One of Ontario’s big hospital charities has fired its chief executive officer and called in the police after forensic accountants turned up serious money and charity management problems. A Toronto Star investigation of the Oshawa Hospital Foundation and its boss,…
By Pulat Yunusov A few days ago, I was shopping around for a good fax service. Besides receiving faxes by email and a few other musts, I needed a stable fax number. Who can afford to lose a number after…
Canada’s homicide rate last year fell to the lowest level since the mid-1960s, according to Statistics Canada, a decrease the agency says was driven largely by fewer incidents in major cities and the western provinces. In 2010, police reported 554…