Legal News

TORONTO — Prisoner isolation, declared unconstitutional 18 months ago, will remain legal for now after Canada's top court granted Ottawa's urgent request to allow the current law to stay in force for the time being.

Correctional Service Canada says a convicted murderer and accomplice to one of New Brunswick's most notorious killers has died.

A CSC spokesperson says Scott Michael Curtis, 52, died of "apparent natural causes" on June 7 following an illness, while serving a second-degree murder sentence for the 1986 killing of shopkeeper John Glendenning.

Curtis was 19 when he was an accomplice to Allan Legere in Glendenning's gruesome slaying.

Legere escaped from prison in 1989 and committed four more grisly murders in New Brunswick before he was recaptured by the RCMP seven months later. He became known as the Monster of the Miramichi.

Curtis and Todd William Matchett both pleaded guilty in Glendenning's death and were sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 16 years.

Curtis was eventually granted parole, though CSC says it could only confirm that he was "under CSC's jurisdiction at the time of his death."

A spokesperson was unable to confirm what illness Curtis succumbed to, citing privacy laws.

SASKATOON — A promising football player whose dreams of playing professionally were crushed after a deadly school shooting in northern Saskatchewan has been sent to prison and his family says it's because he didn't get the mental-health help he needed.

Toronto police are asking for the public's assistance in identifying eight men wanted for damaging a squad car during the celebrations that followed the Raptors' NBA championship win.

OTTAWA — Canada's spy service destroyed a Cold War dossier on Pierre Trudeau in 1989 instead of turning it over to the national archives, The Canadian Press has learned.

VANCOUVER — Surrey RCMP is set to become the first detachment to test a new online crime reporting tool on Monday, followed by proposed tests in three other B.C. communities later this summer.

HAMILTON — Police in Hamilton are investigating after a man was shot several times in what they call a "targeted and specific attack" in the city's Stoney Creek neighbourhood.

TORONTO — Shortly after Caroline Mulroney took the reins as Ontario's attorney general, she spoke to a judge about the often stymied process of modernizing the court system.

OTTAWA — Most Canadians agree that the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women amount to genocide, a new poll suggests.

Hamilton police are asking witnesses to come forward after an altercation at a Pride event may have left multiple people injured.