Ottawa care home sued after senior slips through toilet sling, dies
Three brothers are suing an Ottawa retirement home after their elderly mom slipped through the hole of a toileting sling and hit her hip and head, only to die the next day in hospital. The trouble for...
View ArticleTeen afraid to take OC Transpo, sex-attack trial hears
There’s a teenage girl in Ottawa who has lost all trust in the city and is too afraid to go to school or work because it would mean taking an OC Transpo bus. In her mother’s words, the girl’s innocence...
View ArticleExclusive: Inside the world of a suspected Ottawa terrorist
Up until his arrest by the RCMP on a terrorism peace bond last summer, Tevis Gonyou-McLean felt like he had finally found his purpose in life: to worship and make really good pizza. He had an...
View ArticleWhy Ottawa's child-torturing Mountie got bail: 'It approaches an explainable...
In the final weeks of the child-torture case against an ex-Mountie, first-time spectators in the courtroom kept asking the same question when the man who had burned and starved his 11-year-old son...
View ArticleOttawa Mountie who tortured son once accused of abusing other child
The disgraced Mountie who tortured and starved his 11-year-old son in a darkened Kanata basement for six months was originally charged with assaulting another, younger son in an alleged offence that...
View ArticleThe story of the Ottawa officer who arrested the child-torturing Mountie
When you’re on patrol, even out in the suburbs, a single minute can mean life or death, and on the night of February 12, 2013, Ottawa police Const. Cindy Cybulski took that extra minute for a closer...
View ArticleCSIS aware of terror suspect's flight from Canada, while RCMP investigated
In 2013, while the RCMP were still investigating how a suspected terrorist had quietly left Canada to join ISIL the previous year, Canada’s spy agency informed the Mounties they had in fact already...
View ArticleTortured son of ex-Mountie says scars serve as a daily reminder of his hell
The boy who escaped the horrors of his Kanata basement in February 2013 says he’s doing much better these days and though he tries to forget his gruelling ordeal, his scars are a daily reminder. “I...
View ArticleHow the RCMP came to use Abdullah Milton against an Ottawa terror cluster
The prized RCMP agent who infiltrated an ISIL network in Ottawa says he got into the spy business by accident. It was January 2011, and Abdullah Milton was in Ottawa for the first time. “I was a...
View ArticleCrown drops charges against suspected Ottawa terrorist Tevis Gonyou-McLean
Federal prosecutors have dropped their case against suspected Ottawa terrorist Tevis Gonyou-McLean, who stood accused of threatening to avenge last year’s death of ISIL supporter Aaron Driver....
View ArticleMentally ill drug addict or terrorist? Gonyou-McLean released from jail
By all accounts, Tevis Gonyou-McLean has been punished enough. And so Ontario Court Justice Matthew Webber agreed to release the suspected terrorist from jail after he pleaded guilty to two counts of...
View ArticleProm night killing trial sees chilling final images of Brandon Volpi
It would be a month before the police, and time, caught up with Devontay Hackett. Wanted in the 2014 prom-night slaying of Brandon Volpi, Hackett was later arrested in Toronto, and while his life on...
View ArticleOttawa's Prom Night Killing: Lawyer says no knife in accused's hand
The police case against accused prom-night killer Devontay Hackett is anchored in video and DNA evidence. And on Wednesday, the jury at his second-degree murder trial again was shown a key video of the...
View ArticleProm night killing: Slain grad had consumed very little alcohol before he died
It has been billed as a drunken, deadly prom-night brawl, but the young St. Pat’s grad who was slashed and stabbed to death on June 7, 2014, arguably had the clearest mind, as toxicology results show...
View ArticleOttawa prom night killing: Witness tells two different stories
Prosecutors in the case against accused prom-night killer Devontay Hackett branded a key defence witness a liar on Tuesday, suggesting she didn’t actually see anyone with a knife in the 2014 brawl that...
View ArticleTrial: Armed with box-cutter, wearing gloves, accused killer came looking for...
When the east-end stripper tried to break free from his grip, Carson Morin said she had to learn the hard way. So the pimp showed up at her friend’s Orleans home wearing surgical gloves, armed with a...
View ArticleOrléans pimp promised stripper easy money, murder trial hears
The young Orléans woman was easy pickings for Carson Morin, a 20-year-old pimp in the suburbs who wanted to build a network of strippers. She was making minimum wage at The Shoe Company and had a...
View ArticleCSIS forced to hand over secret records in Ottawa terror case
An Ontario Superior Court judge has ordered Canada’s spy agency to reveal its secret records — including financial dealings — about a prized agent who was paid to infiltrate an ISIL network in Ottawa....
View ArticleCrown reveals shocking details of triple killing, and the accused man's rage...
Ian Bush kept a rambling, handwritten journal about his deep hatred for the tax man. He also kept a toolkit for murder. Enraged over a bitter tax feud, the Ottawa consultant targeted a retired tax...
View ArticleHope on Jasmine, where fear is fading and crime is down
They marched down Jasmine Crescent more than 200-strong on Sunday afternoon. Children, the elderly, parents, students, teachers, school principals, scouts, ministers, the police chief, the mayor and...
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