Dany Villaneuva has been acquitted of a 2008 armed robbery charge in a ruling his lawyer says may bolster his case to avoid deportation to his native Honduras. Villanueva is the older brother of Fredy Villanueva, the Montreal North teenager shot and killed by police three years ago. The armed robbery charge came in the [...]

Quebec hasn’t ruled out legal action if the federal government’s long-gun registry records aren’t handed over before they’re destroyed. “We will use every means at our disposal, which we deem useful, to let Quebec’s point of view be known,” Premier Jean Charest told reporters Thursday. “We are analyzing the means at our disposal to ensure [...]

The man some credit for forcing the hand of the Quebec government to call a corruption inquiry has been fired from the province’s anti-collusion task force. Jacques Duchesneau was reportedly notified Friday morning his contract with the province’s anti-collusion squad had been terminated. A spokesperson with the permanent anti-corruption unit (UPAC) confirmed early Friday afternoon [...]

Lisa Dudley, in a photo held be her mother, died four days after she was shot in 2008. CBCA B.C. mother is suing the provincial and federal governments, alleging her daughter’s charter right to life was violated when the RCMP failed to investigate the gunfire that killed her. Lisa Dudley died in September 2008 after [...]

A Vancouver man is facing human trafficking charges for allegedly running a prostitution ring involving the inter-provincial trafficking of under-aged girls. Vancouver police say Reza Moazami, 27, was arrested during a raid on a south Vancouver home on Oct. 7 by the vice squad. Sgt. Rich Akin said two girls were found in the house, [...]