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PQ election shooter claims Jesus made him do it

PQ election shooter claims Jesus made him do it

The accused Quebec election-night shooter is being sent for a psychiatric evaluation after delivering a lengthy rant in court Friday about how he was sent on a mission by Jesus Christ to rid Quebec of its "separatist problem.

Deaths & funerals

ANDERSON, Mary Viola Mildred April 16, 1919 - December 1, 2012 It is with great sadness that we announce the unexpected passing of our beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt and friend.

B.C. teen's death ruled a homicide

A 16-year-old girl whose body was found along an undeveloped residential area in Kamloops was slain, police said. The victim was identified as Summer Star Elizabeth Krista-Lee Fowler, a member of the Gitan-maax First Nation in Hazelton.

Mayor urges police to halt licence-plate camera use

Changes needed to address privacy issues, Victoria's Dean Fortin says

B.C. mom loses custody 'war' for daughters

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has awarded custody of teenage-twin daughters to their father after a years-long "war" waged by their mother.

Father and daughter arrested for sex crimes

A 46-year-old Connecticut man and his 23-year-old daughter told police they weren't certain they were related before beginning a sexual relationship and having a son together, police said in charging them with sex crimes. George Sayers Jr.

Arts

Victoria standup stages big show >D8
Heating oil spill into Gorge traced to nearby home's abandoned tank

Heating oil spill into Gorge traced to nearby home's abandoned tank

A contractor using ground penetrating radar has found the source of two heating oil spills that flowed into public storm drains, then into the Gorge Waterway this year.
Portrait emerges of mother who killed her children

Portrait emerges of mother who killed her children

Before she was accused of killing her three young children, Sonia Blanchette would spend time scouring already-clean ovens at her restaurant job because she told colleagues the extra work helped her forget how much she missed her kids.

Dead woman's husband begs driver in hit-and-run to come forward

A man whose wife was killed in a hit-and-run incident in Vancouver is pleading for the driver to come forward.