LES COTEAUX, Que. — A man and woman and one of their children are dead after a fire at an apartment building southwest of Montreal early this morning.
Quebec provincial police say two other children were seriously injured in the blaze.
The fire broke out at about 2:30 a.m. in the community of Les Coteaux.
According to a regional fire official, the two adults and three children were unconscious when they were removed and transported to hospital.
The fire was extinguished by 6 a.m.
OTTAWA — As Parliament grapples with misconduct complaints against two former Liberal MPs, a couple of timely events are taking place today on the Hill.
MONTREAL — A psychiatrist hired by the Crown cast doubt Wednesday on Luka Rocco Magnotta's defence that he was not criminally responsible the night he killed Jun Lin.
MONTREAL — Media magnate Pierre Karl Peladeau is entering the Parti Quebecois leadership race in a move that could eventually have major consequences on national politics.
MONTREAL — A Crown witness says evidence presented at Luka Rocco Magnotta's murder trial suggests his actions after Jun Lin's slaying in May 2012 were highly organized.
PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. — A Nova Scotia fisherman who has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder told police he wanted to protect his son-in-law from prosecution when he gave them a false statement about who was driving the boat that rammed the victim's vessel.
FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government is scrapping a section of a contentious regulation that restricted access to abortion for decades and set the province apart for its unique policies on the procedure.