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'It's difficult to think about what he did,' says Paul Bernardo's female friend Her voice on the phone is sometimes tremulous and confused, sometimes defiant. 'I have a strong emotional [...]

A court official read the charges, his principal lawyer held a microphone to his lips, and 980 prospective jurors listened closely. In a firm voice that revealed no hint of [...]

On a bright, bitterly cold morning last week, Ronald and Linda Sterling walked out of the Saskatoon Court House accompanied by friends, supporters and their defence lawyers. After the longest [...]

As he peels off his equipment in the crowded, noisy dressing room, 13-year-old Ryan McSkimming of Burlington, Ont., looks like any other young hockey player in the country. He has [...]

Peter Larkin, the man at the centre of one of Bay Street's biggest-ever stock manipulation scandals, walked briskly last week from a disciplinary hearing at the Ontario Securities Commission -- [...]

Rebecca Hunter and her partner of 6 1/2 years, Debra Lamb, were making their way through rush-hour traffic on a busy Toronto expressway last Thursday when they heard the report [...]

ABORTION ON TRIAL THE DEBATE OVER ABORTION TAKES ON A PERSONAL EDGE AS IT MOVES INTO THE COURTS They met at a Montreal shopping centre last November and by February [...]

Perhaps, in the solitude of her cell at a federal penitentiary near Kitchener, Ont., Patricia Johnson occasionally weeps for the daughter she battered to death. Or perhaps in private conversations [...]

He now languishes in segregation, locked up for 23 1/2 hours a day in a 1.5-by 2.5-m cell in Kingston Penitentiary. But even though he is imprisoned for life, Paul [...]

She spends her days locked in a cell at the Prison For Women in Kingston, Ont., isolated from other inmates for her own protection. Her only diversions are a television [...]

The revelations--startling, sensational and occasionally sickening--flowed from the slender, blond witness with an icy detachment. For five days last week in a crowded downtown Toronto courtroom, as she testified at [...]

Nestled among trees and carefully trimmed shrubbery, the house looks like many another in Port Dalhousie, a picture-postcard community nestled in the city of St. Catharines, across Lake Ontario from [...]

For the past two years, one of the most notorious criminal cases in Canadian history has been moving slowly through the justice system. But Canadians rarely get more than glimpses [...]

At the time, it seemed like a harmless holiday greeting from an old friend. On New Year's Day, a CBC French-language journalist in Sudbury, Ont., received a collect call from [...]

It is just past noon on a damp January day, and artist Eli Langer is having a late breakfast--a cup of coffee and a single slice of toast--in his downtown [...]

As a television viewer, Toronto resident Mark Langton admits to being both old-fashioned and price conscious. The 30-year-old newspaper editor uses a rooftop antenna to bring in about 15 television [...]

On a day last week when the skies above Kingston Penitentiary were as gray as the prison's massive limestone walls, Guy Paul Morin sat in the institution's visitors' centre discussing [...]

Quebecers fume over Hydro's foreign deals He is an unlikely hero for French Quebecers. As leader of the Equality party, Robert Libman represents a largely English-speaking Montreal riding in Quebec's [...]

A clogged system Judges dismiss cases to clear out courts The accused man was charged with sexual assault. His alleged victim was a five-year-old boy. But late last month, an [...]

Rumor and scandal The 54-year-old man, who is charged with having sexual intercourse with his son and one of his daughters, stands five feet, seven inches tall and has large [...]

The case of riddles While the spectators sat transfixed, Julie Bowers leaned on the witness stand, her head bowed, her hands clasped, and shouted in a voice racked by sobs: [...]

Arthur May sounds perplexed. 'I don't know what all the fuss is about,' says May, president of Memorial University of Newfoundland. The fuss, as he calls it, is a heated [...]

Marie Bracklow's marriage was in trouble almost from the time she left a community hall in Coquitlam, B.C., at the side of her husband, Frank, on their December wedding day [...]

Guy Paul Morin knows the power of forensic evidence. The 37-year-old resident of Mississauga, Ont., was convicted of first-degree murder in 1992, largely because a few strands of fabric found [...]

After the school board trustees announced the closure of her elementary school in Grand Falls-Windsor, Nfld., in June, teacher Beverley Butler spent nine evenings packing her personal possessions--box upon box [...]

William G, as he is known, is a six-month-old Winnipeg boy who survived a perilous journey into this world. His mother, a 23-year-old reformed glue and solvent sniffer identified only [...]

Day after day, since mid-February, Guy Paul Morin has patiently listened to testimony at the judicial inquiry into his wrongful conviction for first-degree murder. But his characteristic cool evaporated last [...]

Marleau orders the post office to give up junk mail Like most small-town newspaper publishers, Marie David depends on Canada Post for her survival. Without the post office, she could [...]

Ryan Mahaffy is only 11 years old, but already the handsome, blond youngster understands the horror of rape and murder. He has grotesque nightmares. He receives psychological counselling. He has [...]

For a few heartbreaking moments, the youthful innocence of Kristen French emerges, spontaneously and unexpectedly. In one scene, videotaped shortly after she was abducted while walking home from school on [...]

Even before the first witness is sworn in, the murder trial of Paul Bernardo has offered plenty of potential for judicial miscues and mistakes. Crown and defence lawyers have argued [...]

For the next four to six months, Justice Patrick LeSage will have one of the most difficult jobs in the country. The soft-spoken, quick-witted judge is presiding over the trial [...]

The accused, 30-year-old Paul Bernardo, spent two days in the prisoner's box last week, his suits sharply pressed, his hair stylishly clipped and blow-dried--and his feet shackled. Bernardo, who is [...]

It has been a long morning for Justice Patrick LeSage, who is presiding over the trial of Paul Bernardo, the 30-year-old former accountant accused of murdering schoolgirls Leslie Mahaffy, 14, [...]

The Los Angeles crowd was captivated by his charm and generosity. Journalists were intrigued by his success and splashy deal-making. Bruce McNall--short, pudgy, boyish-looking and endlessly energetic--made a fortune on [...]

``I plead not guilty, sir.'' With a pronounced nod of his head and a strong clear voice, 29-year-old Paul Bernardo stood in a St. Catharines, Ont., courtroom last week and [...]

The two boys came from broken homes, and almost everyone who knew them, from friends to neighbors to teachers, concluded that Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were deeply troubled. They [...]

They are home videos, seemingly unremarkable. There is a smiling teenage girl standing in front of the family Christmas tree. There is another teen, tall and graceful, gliding across the [...]

David James Tearoe, a toddler who will turn 2 in December, has spent all but a few days of his life in a comfortable and orderly middle-class home in Victoria, [...]

Retired elementary-school principal Dwight Stapley and his wife, Lola, were preparing breakfast at their home in Garden Grove, Calif., near Los Angeles, on Sept. 26 when they received a phone [...]

Not long after the birth of his first child in August, 1988, Walter Schachtschneider learned that having a baby would be even more expensive than he had thought. While preparing [...]

Carney Nerland had a defiant expression on his face--and a shotgun in his hands. He and two other members of the Church of Jesus Christ Christian-Aryan Nations, a Hayden Lake, [...]

Questions of privilege The longevity of Hazen Robert Argue's political career is matched only by the remarkable number of bizarre tales that surround it. As a federal parliamentarian for more [...]