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Borutski trial: 'I only had time to think we were both going to die'
Anastasia Kuzyk’s final, painful morning — Sept. 22, 2015 — was recounted in horrifying detail on Thursday as her sister testified at the trial of the man who killed her. Eva Kuzyk recalled her darkest...
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Bush trial: Accused would-be killer 'utterly underestimated' Second World War...
At 101 and stooped over his walker, Ernest Côté may have looked “frail and feeble”, but when a stranger barged into his New Edinburgh condo, bound him with duct tape and covered his head with a plastic...
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Ottawa triple killer had hit list of targets — including CBC journalist, two...
Ian Bush, the failed Ottawa consultant who was branded a monster after his May convictions for the horrific 2007 killings of three seniors — including a retired judge — had drafted a hit list of other...
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Ottawa triple murderer found guilty of trying to kill Second World War veteran
Sometimes a board meeting in Toronto is boring, and other times it’ll save your life. On a December morning in 2014, Ian Bush, a desperate and failed Ottawa consultant, set out for New Edinburgh to...
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Ex-Hells Angel's drug charges tossed because of 'Jordan' trial delay
It’s not the first time former Hells Angel Michael Clairoux beat a drug rap down at the Elgin Street courthouse. But this was different, this was a big joint-police force investigation targeting an...
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Ottawa drug dealer gets life sentence for 2016 murder of 'gentle soul'...
In a most rare scene at the Ottawa courthouse on Tuesday, a young police officer stood and read a victim-impact statement at a killer’s sentencing hearing. It wasn’t on behalf of the victim’s family,...
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Ottawa sex-shame attack was videotaped, posted on Facebook
One of the darkest moments in Ottawa’s tight-knit Congolese community unfolded on July 3, 2015, when a young woman was viciously degraded by jealous attackers who kidnapped her and later pinned her...
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Accused Ottawa woman skips out on robbery trial, but gets acquitted anyway
It’s one thing to beat a rap for armed robbery, but quite another to do it when you don’t show up for trial. On Nov. 30, Ottawa defence lawyer Jason Gilbert won his client a jury acquittal even though...
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Victim of Facebook sex-shame attack details kidnapping, assault
The last time her attacker came for her, it had been outside a nightclub, while wielding a screwdriver. The young Congolese woman said she had left the club in June 2015 to avoid trouble with a jealous...
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Crown stays charges against woman accused in kidnapping, sex attack
Nina Raul finally smiled. She walked out of Courtroom 33 on Wednesday afternoon, having finally been cleared in a vicious, degrading 2015 sex-shame attack on a young Ottawa woman that was broadcast on...
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Ottawa man 'not criminally responsible' in baseball bat killing of mother
Steven Mair, 29, killed the person he loved the most. The former biochemistry student and licensed pilot woke up at 5 a.m. on Aug. 18 in a state of fear and paranoia. He felt like he was still...
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Secret CSIS files assess paid RCMP spy in Ottawa terror case as 'parasitic'...
If the big RCMP case against accused terrorism financier and star recruiter Awso Peshdary ever gets to trial, the credibility of the Mounties’ star witness — a paid agent — will be severely tested. And...
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Former Afghanistan captive Joshua Boyle charged with sex assault, forcible...
Joshua Boyle, rescued along with his family in October after five years in captivity in Afghanistan, is now in an Ottawa jail on charges of sexual assault, forcible confinement and administering a...
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Updated: Joshua Boyle's journey from Afghanistan hostage to accused sex criminal
Joshua Boyle’s long trip through the criminal justice system began Wednesday in a small Ottawa courtroom in a disturbing sex-crimes case that has drawn worldwide attention. The case against Boyle is...
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Man, 23, shot dead on Paul Anka Drive, Ottawa's first homicide of 2018
Ottawa police were investigating a homicide Tuesday night after a young man was gunned down near a housing complex on Paul Anka Drive. Tarek Dakhil, 23, was identified as the victim of the city’s first...
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How to animate Sparks Street? 'There are no bad ideas,' mayor says at town hall
When Jim Watson was working as a young Hill staffer on Sparks Street in the 1980s, he often worked late and found himself walking down the pedestrian mall after nightfall. Just him and the roll of...
View ArticleShots fired at car in Bells Corners, police say
Ottawa police said Sunday there were investigating a shots-fired call reported on Priam Way in Bells Corners on Saturday night. Police responded around 9:30 p.m. and found shell casings and a car that...
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Judge acquits motorist of criminal charge in fatal crash that killed...
Not every deadly car crash is a crime, and the one that claimed the accomplished life of Kouchi Matsumoto in 2013 has been ruled in court as a tragic accident. Matsumoto, 70, a retired Carleton...
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'I can't be in jail': Man accused in teen boy's death breaks down at court...
Guillermo Escobedo-Hoyo, 37, broke down Friday morning at his second court appearance since being charged with killing 17-year-old Nick Hickey, saying he didn’t want to spend another second in jail....
View ArticleuOttawa health clinic doctor, charged with sexual assault, now under house...
A Chelsea doctor accused of secretly filming a female patient during a medical exam is now under house arrest until Ottawa police complete its investigation. Dr. Vincent Nadon, 56, was released from...
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