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Luka Rocco Magnotta - Luka Rocco Magnotta lured a Chinese student to his home in Montreal and murdered him, before mailing his hands and feet to elementary schools and a federal political office.

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Luka Rocco Magnotta - Magnotta uploaded a video of the murder, the same way he previously uploaded videos of him murdering kittens. He fled to Europe before being caught looking himself up at an internet cafe in Berlin.

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Luka Rocco Magnotta - After a 12 week trial, Magnotta was given a life sentence with the possibility of parole in 25 years.

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Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb - Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb are resposible for the Livent scandal involving 'The Phantom of the Opera' produced by the Live Entertainment Corporation of Canada.

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Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb - In 1999, both Drabinsky and Gottlieb were indicted in the US for misappropriating US$4.6 million by cooking the books and hiding losses from investors.

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Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb - In 2009, Drabinsky and Gottlieb were found guilty of fraud and forgery in Ontario Superior Court. Drabinsky was sentenced to five years.

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Alan Eagleson - Alan Eagleson was a well respected NHL agent and the first executive director of the NHL Players Association before being jailed for fraud and embezzlement.

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Alan Eagleson - Eagleson embezzled money from players' pensions, skimmed money from Canada Cup tournaments, and took insurance claim disability payouts for himself instead of players.

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Alan Eagleson - Eagleson served six months in jail, paid a $700,000 fine, was stripped of the Order of Canada, and was forced to resign from the Hockey Hall of Fame.

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Robert Pickton - Robert Pickton owned a pig farm in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia and confessed to killing 49 women over a span of 19 years.

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Robert Pickton - Pickton specifically targeted sex workers from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and threw parties at his farm, from where he would abduct women. He was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years. 

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Robert Pickton - The trial brought attention to the problem of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada. An inquiry into the case concluded systemic bias against the poor, drug-addicted sex workers that Pickton targeted prompted public indifference and led to police failures.

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Conrad Black - Conrad Black founded the National Post and became a multi-millionaire before he was convicted of fraud and went to jail.

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Conrad Black - Black served two years and five months for fraudulently using his company's money for personal use after initially being sentenced to six years and six months.

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Conrad Black - Black was banned by the Ontario Securities Commission from ever being a director or officer of a publicly traded company in Ontario.

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Gary Sorenson and Milowe Brost - The largest Ponzi scheme in Canadian history was devised and carried out by Gary Sorenson and Milowe Brost, who told investors they operated a lucrative gold-refining scheme.

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Gary Sorenson and Milowe Brost - Gary Sorenson and Milowe Brost offered investors the impossible: a 35% return from Syndicated Gold Depository SA, Base Metals Corp., LLC, Bahama Resource Alliance Ltd., and Merendon Mining Corp. Ltd.

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Gary Sorenson and Milowe Brost - Gary Sorenson and Milowe Brost paid back investors using other investors' money and eventually stole between between $100 million to $400 million from over 2,000 investors worldwide. They were each sentenced to 12 years in prison.

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Karla Homolka - Karla Homolka is the most famous serial killer in Canadian history for her role in the rape and murder of three Ontario girls, including her own sister.

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Karla Homolka - Karla Homolka got a reduced sentence of 12 years for turning on her husband, Paul Bernardo, who Homolka said abused and bullied her into the atrocities.

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Karla Homolka - But after the trial, video tapes revealed Karla Homolka was a more willing participant than she led on.

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Paul Bernardo - Paul Bernardo was a serial rapist for years in Toronto before he married and abused Homolka and her family in Quebec.

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Paul Bernardo - Bernardo was convicted in the rape and murder of three Ontario women after Karla Homolka told the police what he had done. Later, Bernardo admitted to being the Scarborough Rapist from 1986 to 1990.

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Paul Bernardo - Paul Bernardo scored 35 out of 40 on the Psychopathy Checklist and wrote a book that was briefly an Amazon best-seller before it was removed due to online outcry.

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Brian Molony - Brian Molony embezzled millions from CIBC to fund his gambling addiction

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Brian Molony - Molony got a job with CIBC right out of university and deposited $10.2 million from the bank into a fake company used by the Las Vegas casino Caesars Palace, in order to gamble there.

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Brian Molony - Molony always had a fascination with horse racing and was arrested a day after losing $1 million at Caesars Palace. He served two and a half years in prison.

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Clifford Olson - Clifford Olson murdered 11 people who were aged between nine and eighteen-years-old in the early 1980s.

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Clifford Olson - After being arrested, Clifford Olson agreed to show the RCMP the locations of the bodies if his wife and child received $10,000 per body for 10 bodies. Olson threw in the location of the eleventh body as a freebie.

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Clifford Olson - Olson was sentenced to life in jail, was never granted parole, and died in prison in 2011 at the age of 71.

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Bernie Ebbers - Bernie Ebbers was the co-founder and CEO of WorldComm before he was convicted in what wsa the largest accounting scandal in American history at the time.

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Bernie Ebbers - Ebbers was convicted for security fraud and conspiracy after misleading investors and tax regulators to the tune of $11 billion.

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Bernie Ebbers - Bernie Ebbers was sentenced to 25 years in jail.

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Russell Williams - Russell Williams was the commander of CFB Trenton, Canada's biggest military airbase, before his double life as a serial killer was uncovered.

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Russell Williams - Williams was found out after his Jeep's unique tire tracks were identified at the scene of the Jessica Lloyd murder.

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Russell Williams - During a ten-hour Ontario Provincial Police interrogation, Williams admitted to killing and sexually assaulting numerous women around the Tweed, Ontario area. He is currently serving two concurrent terms of life in prison.

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Harold Ballard - Harold Ballard owned the Leafs from 1972 until 1990 and the Hamilton Tigercats for 11 seasons. He was convicted of fraud.

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Harold Ballard - Ballard, who also owned Maple Leaf Gardens, was convicted for 47 charges of fraud and served nine years in federal prison for using corporate money for personal use.

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Harold Ballard - Ballard famously used money intended for the Leafs organization to pay for his daughter's limousine.

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Marc Lépine - In one of the most horrific events in Canadian history,  Marc Lépine murdered 14 women in the École Polytechnique massacre.

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Marc Lépine - Lépine separated men and women in a classroom at gunpoint and murdered only the women, claiming he was fighting against feminism.

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Marc Lépine - Lépine killed himself immediately after the massacre.

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Allan Legere - Nicknamed the 'Monster of the Miramichi,' Allan Legere killed five people along the Miramichi River in New Brunswick in 1989.

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Allan Legere - Allan Legere was arrested for the murder of shopkeeper John Glendenning in Black River Bridge, New Brunswick in 1989, but escaped from police after a trip to the hospital.

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Allan Legere - Legere committed four murders after his escape but was apprehended after a failed carjacking and was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for 25 years.

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Michael Briere - The abduction and murder of ten-year-old Holly Jones in 2003 gripped the nation, as did the trial of her killer, Michael Briere.

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Michael Briere - Briere sexually assaulted Holly Jones and dismembered her body after abducting her while she was walking home.

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Michael Briere - Briere refused to give a DNA sample when men in the area were asked to come forward voluntarily. He eventually confessed and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years.

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