While Brenda Aregay's lawyer admitted the decision may be found "shocking or offensive," he said it was made only after his client was "intensely assessed" by a forensic psychiatrist.

The chairwoman of the Alberta Review Board says she has decided to resign after months of what she characterizes as banging her head against a wall.

Warner is described as five-foot-eight, 150 pounds with a beard and long dark brown hair receding on top. Police said he was last seen wearing a long black coat, grey track pants, grey sneakers, and he was carrying a shoulder bag.

According to the CAMH website, the external review will focus on passes and privileges for patients in forensic units.

The disappearance of Ahmed Sualim comes weeks after Zhebin Cong, convicted of murder, escaped CAMH and fled the country undetected.

In a decision released last week, an Ontario court found that while Pereira had a long history of mental illness, his account – in which he claimed a voice told him Horne, 58, had to die because she was part of a plot against him – lacked in credibility.

A forensic psychiatrist testified that David Farrell was suffering from mental illness at the time of the Jan. 31 crime spree.

A Quebec mother convicted in the killings of her two young daughters has been sentenced to serve 10 years in prison before she is eligible for parole.

The best friend of a woman stabbed to death less than three years ago fears the killer could soon be living in the community. An Ontario Review Board hearing for John Lai is scheduled for Wednesday.

Christopher Husbands, 29, is accused of shooting at a group of young men at the mall's food court on June 2, 2012, killing two of them and injuring several others.