Leslie Greenwood has twice been convicted of first-degree murder in the September 2000 deaths of Barry Kirk Mersereau and Nancy Paula Christensen, and twice the convictions were thrown out on appeal.
A Nova Scotia man accused of killing a couple in their Hants County home more than 22 years ago will face a new trial after the Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday refused to hear a Crown appeal.
The association that represents Crown attorneys says an apparent uptick in violent crime over the last several years, paired with a poorly resourced prosecution office, is troubling.
Nova Scotia's prosecution service says the complainants in an extortion case against Frank Eckhardt have moved back to Germany, resulting in the charge being dropped.
Atlantic Canada's ocean technology startup sector has been ranked in the top 10 in a new report on the global blue economy. An international organization promoting entrepreneurship, Startup Genome, issued the rankings Wednesday.