Former hostage Joshua Boyle faces more charges, including sex assault
Joshua Boyle, the former Afghanistan hostage who was rescued along with his family after five years of apparent captivity, is facing new criminal charges in Ottawa — including sexual assault with...
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The tragic death of Ottawa's Cameron Scrim, killed in a hit-and-run
Nobody knew hard work like Cameron Scrim. Dyslexic and funny as hell, he spent his high school nights at the kitchen table with his champion, Janet Scrim. She didn’t want her son to get left behind,...
View Article'I am deeply sorry,' says Ottawa teacher spared jail despite sexual...
Disgraced Ottawa teacher Jessica Beraldin has been spared jail after admitting she had a sexual relationship with one of her students. The teacher, who now uses her maiden name Jessica Fiore, stood in...
View ArticleDimmock: Love in the dark — How a tortured boy showed the human spirit can...
There is no guarantee of love in life. Birth, unlike a vacuum, doesn’t come with a warranty. It’s more like a lottery, yet love sometimes blooms in the darkest corners. Sometimes, it doesn’t even start...
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Orléans couple charged with first-degree murder after 81-year-old's death...
When Maria Desousa, 81, was brought to the Montfort Hospital on Saturday afternoon, she was already dead. It didn’t take long for the coroner to conclude that her fatal injuries were extremely...
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ByWard Market nightclub killing caught on camera, police say
The last time Mustafa Ahmed hit the old Sentral nightclub in the ByWard Market, he left as a fugitive wanted in the killing of gang-banger Omar Rashid-Ghader. It was the other side of midnight, on...
View ArticleOn eve of Ottawa terrorism trial, RCMP still working on disclosure
Just weeks before accused ISIL recruiter Awso Peshdary is scheduled to go on trial, the RCMP has disclosed key documents to his defence team, some three years after his arrest. The handover of 1,900...
View ArticleChelsea doctor accused of sex crimes no longer under house arrest
A Chelsea doctor accused of secretly filming a female patient and sexually assaulting 10 more patients dating back to 1995, is no longer under house arrest. Dr. Vincent Nadon, 56, had his bail...
View ArticleFailed city council candidate jailed for firing handgun in neighbour's yard
Ian Bursey won’t be cutting through his neighbour’s backyard anytime soon. The last time he did — July 3, 2016 — he was arrested and charged with attempted murder after firing a handgun into the air....
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Accused Ottawa killer again seeks 'Jordan decision' stay in long-running...
Accused killer Adam Picard is expected to file a fresh application for another stay of his first-degree murder case on grounds that it took too long to get to trial. Picard, 34, in fact, had won a...
View ArticleCSIS forced to show hand to defence team on eve of big terrorism trial
Days before accused ISIL recruiter Awso Peshdary is scheduled to go on trial, CSIS has been forced to finally hand over a top-secret search warrant to his defence team. The intelligence agency has been...
View ArticleOttawa air traffic controller guilty of sexually abusing young girl
Ottawa’s Kenny Tattersall, a 48-year-old air traffic controller, has pleaded guilty to molesting a girl at his private airport hangar. Tattersall started molesting the girl when she was 12 and wasn’t...
View ArticleOttawa judge not convinced ByWard Market stabbing was intentional
A 17-year-old boy on trial for a 2016 stabbing in the ByWard Market has been acquitted after prosecutors failed to establish it was intentional. The teen, who testified in his own defence, said two men...
View ArticleCoroner orders review of Indigenous teen's care at CHEO in days before her...
The coroner’s office has requested a quality-of-care review at CHEO in the case of a 13-year-old Indigenous girl who had been admitted to the hospital four times in the days leading to her 2017 suicide...
View ArticleAccused ringleader in Ottawa sex-shaming attack lied to police, court hears
Sometimes, James Cavanagh’s search for truth begins with a lie. And it came during the Crown attorney’s cross-examination of the accused ringleader in a vicious 2015 kidnapping and sex-shame attack of...
View ArticleAccused in Ottawa sex-shame attack says she and complainant had close...
The accused ringleader on trial for the 2015 kidnapping and sex-shame attack of a young Congolese woman testified on Tuesday that she treated the alleged victim like a daughter. “She was like my...
View ArticleMan accused of sexually assaulting women while riding OC Transpo gets bail...
The Ottawa man arrested on charges that he sexually assaulted women on city buses has been banned from riding OC Transpo while he awaits trial. Mohamad El-Husseini, 37, won bail on Thursday after his...
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Suspect in Centrepointe-area homicide released from custody
Brian Scollard died trying to steal another man’s weed. It was just after 9 p.m. on Wednesday, and Scollard, 36, along with an accomplice, knocked at the door of a house on Covington Place, a normally...
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Veteran MPP Chiarelli tells supporters to prepare for election battle
Bob Chiarelli expressed cautious optimism at his nomination rally in Ottawa West-Nepean on Saturday, telling supporters they will need to fight hard to retain the provincial government on June 7. The...
View ArticleJudge stays charges in 2016 Ottawa alleged family feud attack because of...
An Ottawa judge has stayed charges in a vicious 2016 attack because the case took too long to get to trial. Brothers Ali and Meshari Albadry, and their brother-in-law Fahad Alzuwaid, were arrested on...
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