Quebec’s next speaker of the house could be veteran Liberal MNA Jacques Chagnon. He is to replace the outgoing speaker Yvon Vallières after a secret ballot is held this week.

Vallières resigned, stating that he could no longer cope with the endless unruly debates at Quebec’s legislature. The debates reached a climax last week when Vallières refused to force a Liberal to apologize for a controversial statement. While the Parti Québécois threatened to remove support for Vallières, the Liberals are accusing the PQ of initiating the crisis.

Prices of Tim Horton's coffee may be going up, but will that deter its most adamant supporters?

The price of your Tim Horton’s Joe will go up slightly next week. Tim Horton’s announced that it will raise prices, but did not say by how much.

Over the years, the Canadian coffee giant has raised prices slightly to keep up with the rising price of sugar. An example: Timbits used to be 17cents and are now 19.

Months after pleading guilty, the teen killers behind Kimberly Proctor’s death in BC were sentenced as adults on Monday. Cameron Moffatt and Kruse Wellwood received life sentences, with no chance of parole for 10 years.

The publication ban on the teens’ identities was lifted at the time of the sentencing.

The judge says because the crime was so brutal, the boys should be jailed as long as possible. He says both teens tried laying the blame on each other, so it’s impossible to sort out the truth.

The teens raped and murdered 16-year-old Proctor in a Victoria home last summer. They were 16 and 17 when they committed the crime.

Results of last month’s Haiti presidential runoff show that carnival musician Michel Martelly has the upper hand over former first lady Mirlande Manigat. According to a spokesman for Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council, Martelly took sixty-seven percent of the vote while Manigat received thirty-one percent.The preliminary results were delayed by a week due to fraud problems.

Read by Sofia Gay.

Produced by Gareth Sloan.

Stories by Sarah El Fangary, Chris Hanna and Corentine Rivoire.