The court case of a Quebec man accused of killing two young children by driving a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare was postponed on Tuesday to the end of August. Pierre Ny St-Amand was arrested after a city bus crashed into the front of a daycare in the Ste-Rose neighbourhood of Laval, Que., on…

A psychiatric hospital has completed an evaluation of a man accused of killing two young children by driving a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare, but its contents will remain sealed, a court heard on Wednesday. Montreal’s Philippe-Pinel institute was mandated to evaluate Pierre Ny St-Amand’s mental state at the time of his alleged crimes…

RIO DE JANEIRO—A man with a hatchet jumped over a wall and invaded a daycare center Wednesday in Brazil, killing four children and wounding at least five others, authorities said. The assailant turned himself in at a police station and did not appear to have any connection with the center, which offers nursery services, preschool…

A Quebec man accused of killing two young children when the city bus he was driving slammed into a Montreal-area daycare has been judged fit to stand trial, and his lawyer on Friday requested that his client also be evaluated for criminal responsibility. Pierre Ny St-Amand appeared in a courtroom in Laval, Que., where his…

It was just before 8:30 a.m. Wednesday when André Beaudoin pulled into the parking lot to bring his two-year-old son to daycare. The Garderie Éducative Ste-Rose in Laval, Que., was busy, with parents stopping to drop off their children for the day. The sound of an engine revving was Beaudoin’s first signal that something wasn’t…

Neighbours of the Quebec man accused of killing two four-year-olds when the bus he was driving slammed into a daycare were shocked by the charges, describing him as a pleasant individual and doting father. Pierre Ny St-Amand, a driver with the transit corporation in Laval, Que., was arrested at the scene and charged with two…

A city north of Montreal was united in grief on Thursday as parents, community members and elected officials gathered to pay tribute to two children who were killed a day earlier when a city bus rammed into a daycare during a busy morning drop-off period. Throughout the day, a steady stream of visitors stopped to add…

Parents, neighbours, and others have visited the security perimeter around the Quebec daycare where a city bus driver may have deliberately crashed, killing two children and injuring six others. They have laid flowers, cards, and stuffed animals, and tried to make sense of the tragedy. Quebec Premier François Legault and the province’s three opposition leaders…

The driver of a bus that crashed into a daycare in Laval, Quebec, on the morning of Feb. 8, killing two children and injuring six others, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder. Pierre Ny St-Amand, 51, and an employee of the city’s transit authority, Société de transport de Laval, appeared by video…

At least eight people including several children have been sent urgently to hospital after a city bus crashed into a daycare north of Montreal Wednesday morning, emergency officials say. Authorities did not immediately say how many of those injured in the crash in Laval, Que., were children. The bus driver, an employee of the Société…