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More than year after a tourist was brutally attacked on the Vancouver seawall, the man who is charged is asking the courts to find him not criminally responsible. Kristen Robinson reports.

As Catherine McDonald reports, Victoria Adriatico’s lawyer argues Adriatico should found not criminally responsible (NCR) due to a mental disorder, but the Crown argues Adriatico should be found criminally responsible.

A man convicted in the brutal slayings of his three children has been granted a one-year conditional release by the British Columbia Review Board. Allan Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible for killing his three children, aged five, eight and 10 in their Merritt home in 2008. Sarah Macdonald reports.

Allan Schoenborn is seeking a conditional discharge from the B.C. Review Board, 18 years after killing his three young children. Schoenborn was found guilty, but ruled not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder. Grace Ke reports.

Tributes are pouring in for a 33-year-old OPP Sergeant and member of the Golden Helmets precision motorcycle team who was killed in a crash on Highway 401 in Cobourg. The family of a Toronto woman stabbed 26 times is expressing outrage and fear after the Ontario Review Board granted “indirectly supervised” community access to the...

A Toronto man who admitted to killing his mother at a park has been found guilty of second-degree murder after a judge rejected his defence that he was not criminally responsible. Catherine McDonald reports.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday, in response to a reporter’s question, that to prevent instances of copycat attacks after the Montreal shooting that killed three Monday, law enforcement needs access to “these criminals that are going on social media sites.” Ford added,” They’re saying ‘oh privacy,’ privacy my butt! These officers are getting killed;...

The crown argues there is no admissible evidence to absolve Colin Hatcher of criminal responsibility at the time of his mother’s killing. Catherine McDonald reports.

During the pandemic, millions of Canadians relied on the Canada Emergency Response Benefit, or CERB. People who signed up received an automated message — but tens of thousands who never applied also received the same message. “The CRA website lacked robust security controls to prevent criminals from hijacking people’s accounts,” says David Shipley of Beauceron...

As Catherine McDonald reports, the judge rejected a not criminally responsible defence for Leahain Malcolm for the death of his husband in 2021.

Asked how he would respond to the demand for a public inquiry from Nadar Hasan, the lawyer for Umar Zameer, Toronto police Chief Myron Demkiw said it was “not a decision for me to make.” Commenting further on the results of the OPP report that cleared TPS officers of criminal wrongdoing, Demkiw said he is...

A Vaughan man who admitted to killing a Toronto-area rap artist but argued he was not guilty due to a mental disorder that rendered him not criminally responsible (NCR) has been found guilty of first-degree murder.

Colin Hatcher has pleaded not guilty to murdering Kathleen Hatcher. The issue will be his mental state at the time and whether he is criminally responsible. Catherine McDonald reports.

WATCH: SPS Chief Cam McBride says investigation is ongoing into the patient altercation death at RUH this month. He also explains police response to hospital violence or criminal incidents. McBride also shares crime trends this time of year and initial plans of the transit policing program that will be developed in 2026.

A Toronto musician who killed his own grandfather is found not criminally responsible. 

A judge found Michael Calvo was actively psychotic when he stabbed Ana Paula Kitterhing De Sousa in October 2023. Catherine McDonald reports.

For the third time, a man has been found not criminally responsible, this time for stabbing three people in Vancouver’s Chinatown during a festival. Kristen Robinson reports.

The man found not criminally responsible for the Laval daycare bus crash that killed two children in 2023 was back in court Monday. Pierre Ny St-Amand remains detained at Quebec’s psychiatric institute for prisoners. Quebec’s attorney general wants him declared a dangerous offender, but his defence lawyers argue that move is unconstitutional. Amanda Jelowicki reports.

As Catherine McDonald reports, the psychologist said Richard Edwin on trial for two counts of murder was not feigning the symptoms of his schizophrenia.

A second forensic psychiatrist testified at the Richard Edwin double murder trial. Dr. Alina Iosif said Edwin was experiencing psychosis when he shot two people in April 2022, but does not qualify for a defence of not criminally responsible. Catherine McDonald reports.