As family members looked on, Derrick Lawlor’s application for bail was denied Friday.
Lawlor, 53, is accused of killing Mark McCreadie and leaving his body in a near Victoria Park earlier this year.
In April, the 50-year-old McCreadie was found dead in a wooded area near the park.
Police believe he was strangled to death.
Lawlor, a former student advisor at the University of Waterloo, has a manslaughter conviction on his record stemming from a 1985 incident in Newfoundland and Labrador.
