Homicide is committed by a person who, directly or indirectly, by any means, causes the death of another human being.
Homicide is culpable or not culpable.
Homicide that is not culpable is not an offence (there is a legal reason, for example, self-defence, or accident, where there is no blameworthy negligence). In most cases, where there is a homicide there will be a coroner's inquest and /or an inquiry, to first determine whether the homicide was culpable or not culpable.
Culpable homicide is:
* Murder;
* Manslaughter;
* Infanticide;
A person commits culpable homicide when that person causes the death of another human being:
* by means of an unlawful act;
* by criminal negligence;
* by causing that human being, by threats or fear of violence, or by deception, to do anything that causes the death of that human being;
* if that human being is a child or sick person, by willfully frightening that human being.
Manslaughter:
Murder may be reduced to the offence of manslaughter if the person who caused the death did it in the heat of passion, caused by sudden provocation sufficient to deprive a normal person of the power of self-control, providing the accused acted on it quickly, before there was time to cool down.
more.... (http://lawsmart.lawinfo.com/canada/criminal/homicide.html?Assoc=myrnalytle)
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