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Crown appeals for new trial against doctor acquitted of murdering 4 patients

The provincial Crown's office wants Ontario's highest court to toss the acquittal of a doctor who had been accused of murdering four of his patients during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, and order a new trial against him.
CBC Investigates

Police mistakes, defence manoeuvres halt fatal explosion criminal probe, court docs reveal

For a year, Ottawa police mistakes and defence team tactics have brought the criminal investigation into an explosion that killed six people in 2022 to a grinding halt, court documents recently made reportable show.
CBC Investigates

Criminal probe into workplace explosion that killed 6 stalled amid battle over search warrants

A criminal investigation into the explosion that killed six employees of Eastway Tank, Pump and Meter in 2022 is stalled more than two years later, as lawyers for the company's owner fight Ottawa police in court over the validity of search warrants investigators executed last summer and fall, CBC News has learned.

Child welfare system failed 5-year-old manslaughter victim, family says

Ada Guan the mother of a five-year-old girl who died amid abuse and neglect has a trial coming up in January after her ex-boyfriend was convicted of manslaughter and assault this spring. People in the girls extended family say Alberta's child welfare service failed Chloe Guan-Branch before her death, and should not have given Chloe back to her mother.

Dr. Brian Nadler expected to be acquitted of murder, criminal negligence charges

Dr. Brian Nadler, who formerly practised at a hospital in Hawkesbury, Ont., and was facing eight charges in connection to the deaths of four patients, will likely be acquitted on all counts on Tuesday, according to both Crown and defence counsel.

'Shocking example of abuse' that cut 5-year-old's life short earns man 14-year sentence

A man convicted of manslaughter, assault causing bodily harm and assault in the 2020 death of a five-year-old girl who endured "unimaginable" pain for days has been sentenced to 14 years, an Ottawa Superior Court judge has ruled.

Ex Mountie convicted of sex crimes avoids another Ottawa trial, but his 3rd looms in B.C.

A formerRCMP officer convictedof secretly recording women in Ottawa bathrooms, bedrooms and hotel rooms for years, in addition toexposing himself to schoolgirls in Vancouver, is no longer going to trial on charges of sexual assault and harassment in Ottawa. But another trial looms in Vancouver this fall.

Cop who assaulted boy at CHEO gets conditional discharge

An Ottawa police officer has received a conditional discharge after assaulting a handcuffed boy in custody for mental health issues at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in 2022.

Youth worker secretly recorded boys in detention centre shower, strip search area, police allege

Over the course of a year, a youth justice worker is alleged to have made secret recordings of boys via a hidden camera in the shower and strip search area of a detention centre in Ottawa, according to courthouse records.
In Depth

Finally getting help, after years-long odyssey through criminal and mental health systems

A repeatedly jailed, hospitalized and homeless retired nurse with bipolar disorder has been getting substantial help after her latest release from custody this month. But she wonders if the system is really any different.