Murderers with multiple victims receive a gift from the top court, but Rosie DiManno thinks the justices have overloo...
Read Full ArticleThe country’s top court is set to hear whether it is constitutional to sentence a person to consecutive periods of pa...
Read Full ArticleThe Supreme Court of Canada is expected to rule on the question of when a convicted killer can apply for parole in ca...
Read Full ArticleThe case returns to court May 31. Although the reason for the adjournment was not put on the record, Alek Minassian’s...
Read Full ArticleA ruling on the federal law on sentencing multiple murderers is being appealed to the Supreme Court. Whether the cour...
Read Full ArticleIt’s Alek Minassian who murdered, with deliberate forethought, intent and planning. Justice Anne Molloy was not naïve...
Read Full ArticleWhat matters is not whether Minassian planned and carried out Toronto’s worst mass killing, but if he is criminally r...
Read Full ArticleMinassian’s criminal trial is not meant to investigate the question of how and why mass killings happen. If we want t...
Read Full ArticleThe reports, released in full only after Minassian’s trial ended, give a detailed, chilling and at times contradictor...
Read Full ArticleDid Alek Minassian know what he did was wrong? To the Crown the answer is simple: Just listen to his words. To the de...
Read Full ArticleCourt heard from a cast of shrinks, one of whom came close to blaming Minassian’s autism spectrum disorder for his ac...
Read Full ArticleMinassian clearly understood what he was doing was morally wrong because that was part of his motivation for carrying...
Read Full ArticleMinassian would be better described as a mass killer who happens to have autism spectrum disorder rather than someone...
Read Full ArticleMinassian is seeking to be found not criminally responsible for 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of att...
Read Full Article“This is an individual who for many years has thought about killing people,” Dr. Percy Wright testified Tuesday at th...
Read Full ArticleMinassian has admitted to planning and carrying out the April 2018 attack in which he drove a rented van down Yonge S...
Read Full ArticleIn a legal first in Canada, defence is arguing that Minassian’s autism spectrum disorder rendered him unable to know ...
Read Full ArticleMinassian is seeking to be found not criminally responsible for the first-degree murder of 10 people and the attempte...
Read Full ArticleDr. Alexander Westphal, whose specialty is autism, is the only expert arguing that Minassian should be found not crim...
Read Full ArticleMinassian, 28, has admitted to renting a van and speeding along a Yonge Street sidewalk in 2018, trying to kill as ma...
Read Full ArticleThis trial pivots on whether Minassian understood the legal and moral ramifications of what he did to determine if he...
Read Full ArticleWestphal was one of the psychiatrists who specialize in autism spectrum disorder recommended to Minassian’s defence l...
Read Full ArticleDr. John Bradford testified Thursday that in his opinion Alek Minassian does not meet the test to be found not crimin...
Read Full ArticleHe doesn’t have the mental illnesses that have merited the status NCR — not criminally responsible — in the past, Dr....
Read Full ArticleAlek Minassian has pleaded not guilty to 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder in the 20...
Read Full ArticleThis trial is now entirely about what was going on between the ears of defendant, Alek Minassian, writes Rosie DiManno.
Read Full ArticleMinassian told police he wanted an “incel rebellion” but denied that to a psychiatrist — some of the time — only to t...
Read Full ArticleThe Toronto van attack driver is arguing his autism distorted his thinking “in a way similar to psychosis,” leaving h...
Read Full ArticleDr. Rebecca Chauhan, who specializes in child and adolescent psychiatry, interviewed Minassian, 28, at St. Joseph’s H...
Read Full ArticleVahe Minassian cleaving to what he said his son had told him — looking forward to the trial, going home, everyone see...
Read Full ArticleMinassian’s defence is arguing he is non criminally responsible for murder because his autism spectrum disorder rende...
Read Full ArticleStressing that the vast majority of people with autism are not violent, Minassian’s defence on Monday argued he was n...
Read Full ArticleMinassian, 28, has admitted that he killed, or intended to kill all 26 people, and that his actions were planned and ...
Read Full ArticleThe key question in the trial of the Yonge St. van attack driver will revolve around his state of mind — and simply h...
Read Full ArticleThe trial, set to begin by Zoom Tuesday, will hinge on van driver Alek Minassian’s state of mind. His defence is like...
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