Montreal police say a 32-year-old man is facing a mischief charge after allegedly smashing his way into a downtown mosque early Sunday morning. Const. Véronique Dubuc says investigators don’t believe the incident was a hate crime, adding that the suspect will appear in court at a later date. A national Muslim group posted surveillance videos…

Former mayor of Surrey, B.C., Doug McCallum has been found not guilty of public mischief by a provincial court judge. McCallum was charged after telling police that a woman opposed to his plans to replace the Surrey RCMP with a municipal police force used her car to run over his foot in a grocery store…

An expert in fractures has told the mischief trial of Surrey, B.C., Mayor Doug McCallum that broken bones may not necessarily be the result if someone’s foot is run over by a car. Biomechanical engineer Dennis Chimich testified for the defence on Wednesday as McCallum’s lawyers opened their case by presenting evidence to suggest the…

Surveillance video is inconclusive about whether a woman ran over Surrey, B.C., Mayor Doug McCallum’s foot as he told police, but other issues related to his complaint led to a charge of public mischief, the primary investigator said at his trial. RCMP Sgt. André Johnny told provincial court Tuesday that a bush in a grocery…

A lawyer representing Surrey, B.C., Mayor Doug McCallum suggests RCMP decided early into an investigation that his client deceived police by saying his foot was run over in a grocery store parking lot. Richard Peck is questioning the primary investigator at McCallum’s provincial court mischief trial and says police couldn’t tell in surveillance video if…

The outgoing mayor of Surrey, B.C., is set to face a charge of public mischief at the start of a trial today, two weeks after his defeat at the polls. Doug McCallum lost by 973 votes in one of the most hotly anticipated municipal election results in the province, after he promised to forge ahead…