MONTREAL (CP) - Troubled publishing heiress Anne-Marie Peladeau was sentenced Thursday to two years' probation on charges of theft, obstruction of justice and attempting to obstruct justice.
She was also ordered to finish her therapy to deal with her drug addiction in a timely fashion. Peladeau, who is in her early 40s, is the daughter of the late Pierre Peladeau, founder of the Quebecor publishing and broadcasting empire.
She pleaded guilty last October to four theft charges, one charge of obstruction of justice and one count of attempting to obstruct justice.
Peladeau and her boyfriend were charged after a high-speed police chase following a robbery in Montreal in October 2005. The police officers involved have been charged with assault, but were countersuing Peladeau.
Celebrated opera collaborators John Estacio and John Murrell are set to raise the curtain on their latest full-length work, Frobisher, in Calgary this weekend. The Virgin Festival concert series adds a new stop in Vancouver this year, with a lineup that includes the Killers, My Chemical Romance, Billy Talent, Muse, AFI and Victoria's own Hot Hot Heat. An interpretation of Mozart's The Magic Flute rich with West Coast native symbolism opens this weekend, the culmination of a three-year partnership between Vancouver Opera and a First Nations group.
The Washington, D.C., mayor's office hosted about 100 homeless people on Thursday at a screening of The Pursuit of Happyness, about a homeless man who becomes a millionaire. Heritage Minister Bev Oda announced Friday continued federal support of $200 million over the next few years to the Canadian Television Fund, which has been embroiled in a controversy after two major contributors withdrew their financial support. Three detainees alleged to have been physically abused by Canadian soldiers have disappeared while in Afghan custody, according to a report. U.S. Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey abruptly stepped down Friday as the government struggled to cope with the fallout from a scandal over the poor conditions for war-wounded soldiers at a medical centre in Washington, D.
C.
At least 12 British and French tourists have been kidnapped by suspected separatist rebels in Ethiopia's remote northeastern Afar desert, diplomats and officials said Friday. Atlantic Canada was still dealing with the effects of a major winter storm on Saturday that swept across Eastern Canada this week. The shooting death Friday of a Laval police officer who was the father of two young daughters and was on the drug squad for less than two weeks has left the Quebec force in shock. A Calgary mother thanked friends in Lebanon for helping her and her two daughters during two months in hiding after she took them back from her estranged husband. CBC Radio's Canada Reads panel chose a single book on Friday it recommends be read by all Canadians. Doris Anderson, the longtime editor of Chatelaine who used the magazine to bring women's rights to the forefront, died in Toronto on Friday at the age of 85. Anna Nicole Smith was mourned by about 100 family and friends during a funeral service in the Bahamas Friday before her body was taken by white limousine to a cemetery. The international Cassini spacecraft has sent back images of Saturn from never-before seen angles high above and below the planet's rings. Prosecutors in Florida have charged NASA astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak with assault and attempted kidnapping of a woman she considered her rival for the affections of a space shuttle pilot. Clinically depressed people's performance in a 3-D video game suggests a part of their brain responsible for spatial memory does not function correctly, U.S. researchers have found.
The TSX finished a volatile week with another triple-digit loss Friday that was enough to wipe out all the gains the market had made so far this year. Canada's economy grew at an annualized rate of 1.4 per cent in the last quarter of 2006, marking the weakest quarterly growth in more than three years.
Canadians put more money into mutual funds last month than they have in any February since 1997, preliminary figures suggest. The Toronto Maple Leafs staged a furious rally after losing their best defenceman Friday night, making what was likely their last game in the Meadowlands in New Jersey a memorable one. Montreal lost 8-5 in Buffalo on Friday, helping drop the Canadiens to ninth place in the Eastern Conference. Sidney Crosby, the Nova Scotia-born star forward for the Pittsburgh Penguins, reached 200 career points on Friday night — the youngest player in NHL history to achieve the feat.
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