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B.C. jury finds Adam Mann guilty in 2024 home-invasion murder of Tori Dunn
Jury finds man guilty in B.C. home-invasion murder
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
A man accused of killing a Surrey, B.C., resident during a home invasion in 2024 has been convicted of second-degree murder, in a case that triggered calls for bail reform.
The BC Prosecution Service says Adam Mann was found guilty by a jury in New Westminster, B.C., on Wednesday.
Mann is set to appear next Thursday in court to set a date for sentencing.
The attack happened on June 16, 2024, at 30-year-old Tori Dunn's home in Surrey's Port Kells neighbourhood, where she was stabbed and died from her injuries.
Mann's DNA was found on the handle of a knife that also carried Dunn's blood, but Mann told court he picked up the knife on the side of the road before police arrived and arrested him.
The case generated considerable public interest because Mann was facing an unrelated aggravated assault charge and was slated to appear in court in the matter, but had been released on bail.
Dunn's family launched a petition calling for a legal review of what led to Mann's release and for changes to prevent similar tragedies in the future.
NDP Leader David Eby had said in his capacity as premier in July that he had asked his team to reach out to the Dunn family to discuss the case and to find ways to support their calls for reform.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said in a statement in June that Mann, an Ontario resident, was found by Surrey police while they were on their way to Dunn's home.
Mann was once deemed an "unmanageable risk" unsuitable for community supervision, in a pre-sentencing report after being convicted of a home invasion in Ontario more than a decade ago.
Court records in B.C., Ontario and New Brunswick show Mann has a criminal history dating back decades.
In 2009, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for robbery and weapons offences in a home invasion. He unsuccessfully appealed that conviction.
The Ontario Court of Appeal ruling in 2010 said Mann had racked up 22 previous convictions by the age of 25, including violent offences involving firearms and robberies.
The ruling said a pre-sentence report on Mann was "very bleak," and that he once described stabbing a female victim as "like a knife going through butter."
The report said Mann was "not suitable for community supervision, as he appears to be an unmanageable risk while in the community."
In December 2014, Mann was convicted of assault after spitting on two employees of the Atlantic Institution in Renous, N.B., where he was incarcerated.
Online court records in B.C. show Mann also has a long criminal history in the province.
In 2021, he was found guilty of publication of an intimate image without consent, an offence that occurred in Abbotsford.
In March this year, Mann was found guilty of possessing a weapon for dangerous purpose, and wilfully resisting or obstructing a peace office. He was then found guilty of breaching a probation order on June 5.
Eby had previously said Mann's release had raised questions because he was facing criminal charges and Crown prosecutors had urged a judge not to release him back into the community.
A statement from B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma on June 28 said the government would look at what happened and push Ottawa to "ensure the federal Criminal Code is responsive to public safety needs."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 22, 2026.
Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
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PSPP veut instaurer 3 semaines de vacances pour tous au Québec : Voici quoi savoir
Une priorité sur laquelle il ne perd pas de temps. 👀
Lors de l'assermentation de son cabinet ministériel ce mercredi 21 octobre, le premier ministre Paul St-Pierre Plamondon a promis aux Québécois et aux Québécoises qu'un minimum de trois semaines de vacances payées serait accordé aux travailleurs et travailleuses de la province.
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C'est du moins ce qu'il a laissé entendre en présentant le mandat de son nouveau ministre du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale, Mathieu Lebrun.
« Vous aurez notamment comme mandat d’honorer nos engagements électoraux en matière de normes du travail, entre autres par l’instauration d’un minimum de trois semaines de vacances », a-t-il déclaré.
Le Parti québécois (PQ) soutient que cette promesse faisait bel et bien partie de sa plateforme électorale, bien qu'aucune annonce publique n'a été faite durant les 39 jours de campagne.
En feuilletant la plateforme électorale 2026 du PQ, on constate effectivement que l'engagement d'instaurer un minimum de trois semaines de vacances payées dans les normes du travail figure dans la section consacrée à la famille.
À l'heure actuelle, la Loi sur les normes du travail prévoit un jour de vacances par mois complet de service continu pour les personnes qui travaillent chez un même employeur depuis moins d'un an, et deux semaines de vacances pour celles qui comptent entre un et trois ans de service continu.
Après trois ans de service continu, les personnes salariées ont droit à un minimum de trois semaines de vacances. Les employeurs peuvent toutefois en offrir davantage.
Quelles sont les autres promesses du PQ pour les familles?
Les trois semaines de vacances payées sont loin d'être le seul engagement du Parti québécois pour faciliter la vie des familles.
Dans sa plateforme électorale de 2026, la formation politique promet notamment de créer 10 000 nouvelles places en CPE d'ici quatre ans, en plus des 15 000 déjà en cours de réalisation, pour un total de 25 000 places supplémentaires d'ici 2030.
Le PQ souhaite également bonifier les allocations familiales jusqu'à 700 $ pour les troisième et quatrième enfants, en plus d'améliorer le Régime québécois d'assurance parentale (RQAP). Il propose notamment de garantir des prestations minimales de 300 $ par semaine, d'augmenter les taux de remplacement du revenu et de permettre aux parents d'utiliser leurs prestations sur une période de trois ans.
Parmi ses autres promesses, on retrouve le remboursement des deuxième et troisième cycles de fécondation in vitro, la prolongation du suivi postnatal des sages-femmes de six semaines à quatre mois et des mesures fiscales pour faciliter l'accès à la propriété grâce au transfert de REER des parents vers leurs enfants.
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Recount flips Quebec riding to the Parti Québécois, Liberals refuse to concede
Recount flips riding to Parti Québécois
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
A judicial recount has flipped a riding in the Montérégie region of Quebec from the Liberal Party to the Parti Québécois by a three-vote margin.
However, the Quebec Liberal Party is refusing to concede victory to its rival for now.
Liberal candidate Affine Lwalalika had initially been declared the winner of the Vachon riding by a margin of ten votes.
A recount was triggered and ended on Wednesday.
Quebec's election authority says the recount gave the upper hand to PQ candidate Stephan Fogaing by three votes.
The Liberal Party says it acknowledges the results of the recount but that its lawyers are reviewing the situation.
“All options are on the table, and we will make a decision quickly on how to proceed,” the party wrote on its social media accounts.
Data from the election authority, Élections Québec, shows more ballots were rejected in the recount than on election day, going from 588 to 730 rejected ballots.
The incumbent for Vachon, former Coalition Avenir Québec cabinet minister Ian Lafrenière, congratulated Fogaing.
“The judicial recount declared him the winner by three votes in Vachon. The phrase ‘every vote counts’ takes on its full meaning,” wrote the former domestic security minister on X.
Lafrenière had finished third with just under 21 per cent of the vote on election day.
The PQ has also requested a judicial recount in Champlain, in the Mauricie region, where its candidate lost by 191 votes to Conservative candidate Adriana Szalontai.
The Court of Quebec confirmed the recount on Tuesday. It is set to begin Thursday at the Trois-Rivières courthouse.
In its press release, the election authority says there have been seven judicial recounts after a provincial election since 2000. Recounts in 2003 and 1994 led to ties, which triggered byelections.
— With files from Frédéric Lacroix-Couture
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 22, 2026.
Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
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