Four people were injured Wednesday morning in a stabbing rampage at an office park in the Canadian city of Toronto, police said.

Toronto police Constable Jenniferjit Sidhu said "a person armed with scissors or a knife" burst into a fifth floor office in a building in the city's north end.

Canada has ordered a Russian diplomat to leave the country, newspapers reported on Tuesday, but officials won't say why.

Lieutenant-Colonel Yury Bezler has been declared persona non grata and has been given two weeks to depart, after serving less than a year as assistant defense attache at the Russian embassy in Ottawa, said the Ottawa Citizen and others, citing unnamed sources.

Quebec's independence movement faced an uncertain future on Tuesday after its standard-bearer, the Parti Quebecois, suffered a crushing defeat in snap elections.

The Parti Quebecois (PQ) leader Pauline Marois had triggered the midterm elections 18 months into her first mandate hoping to gain seats to form a majority in the Canadian province.

Canada's Quebec province voted out a separatist government Monday, choosing a former neurosurgeon and his federalist Liberal party to lead a promised economic rally.

Television networks predicted a Liberal victory soon after the polls closed at 8:00 pm (0000 GMT Tuesday).

Quebec voters head to the polls Monday to pick a new government to lead Canada's French-speaking province, after a campaign that saw the separatist ruling party renew calls for independence.

But the Parti Quebecois's renewed talk of having the province break away from Canada could prove costly, with Premier Pauline Marois's party trailing in the polls behind the pro-unity Quebec Liberals.

A devout Sikh immigrant with a criminal past and a woman facing marijuana possession charges were identified Tuesday as the shooter and the savior, respectively, of a policeman in a Canadian courthouse last week.

Police shot and killed an armed man at Canada's busiest courthouse on the outskirts of Toronto on Friday after he entered the secure building and shot and wounded an officer.

Police shot and killed an armed man at Canada's busiest courthouse on the outskirts of Toronto on Friday after he entered the secure building and shot and wounded an officer.

The unidentified shooter walked into the courthouse in Brampton, Ontario at about 11 am and "discharged a firearm," injuring the policeman, a special investigative unit said in a statement.

Canada's Atlantic seaboard braced Wednesday for a spring blizzard, closing schools, government offices and businesses, and cancelling flights in anticipation of a record snowfall, powerful winds and flooding.

Authorities said winds could reach up to 180 kilometers per hour (112 miles per hour) and as much as 40 centimeters (15 inches) of snow was expected to fall in parts of the region.

Russia said Monday it had banned entry to the country for 13 Canadian lawmakers and public figures, after Canada imposed sanctions against seven Russian and three Crimean senior officials over the crisis in Ukraine.

The Canadians now refused entry to Russia include Prime Minister Stephen Harper's foreign policy adviser Christine Hogan, parliament speaker Andrew Sheer and journalist turned politician Chrystia Freeland, the foreign ministry said in a statement.

Canada's premier said Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to send troops into Crimea and annex it from Ukraine encourages aggrieved nations to "arm themselves to the teeth".

Stephen Harper, the first leader from the Group of Seven top industrialized powers to visit Kiev since last month's fall of Ukraine's pro-Kremlin regime, said the consequences of Putin's actions "will be felt far beyond the borders of Ukraine or even the European continent itself".