Kristy Nease

Patrick Gordon MacDonald will spend 10 years in prison for inciting hate, fear and division by calling for violence against Jews with terrorist propaganda images and videos he helped make.

Patrick Gordon MacDonald will spend 10 years in prison for inciting hate, fear and division by calling for violence against Jews with terrorist propaganda images and videos he helped make.

An Ottawa man who took sexual advantage of boys he had access to through teaching and youth justice work in the capital, among others, has received a "nearly unprecedented" sentence of 13.5 years in prison for his "extremely varied and heinous" crimes, a judge has ruled.

An Ottawa man who took sexual advantage of boys he had access to through teaching and youth justice work in the capital, among others, has received a "nearly unprecedented" sentence of 13.5 years in prison for his "extremely varied and heinous" crimes, a judge has ruled.

A CBC News analysis found one woman's ongoing journey through the mental health and justice systems has cost more than $800,000 since 2018. In Ontario, two main camps are lobbying for change — each with very different ideas about what to do.

Everyone agrees, even the defence. For inciting hate, fear and division by calling for violence against Jews with terrorist propaganda images and videos he helped make, Patrick Gordon MacDonald is going to prison for a substantial period of time. A judge is now determining just how long that should be.

Police investigating one of the deadliest workplace incidents in Ottawa's history believe a chain of negligent acts caused the explosion at Eastway Tank, Pump and Meter that killed six employees in 2022, according to a substantially unredacted document exposing new details that was filed in court.

Late Friday night, in a darkened Ottawa courthouse, a jury found Jean-Bruno Fenelon guilty of first-degree murder for killing Marie Gabriel in a jealous rage as she was trying to kick him out of her house in March 2022.

Suspended Ottawa lawyer James Bowie has been ordered to pay a former client — and plaintiff in a civil case against him — $235,000 after proposing she pay for his legal services with oral sex and disclosing personal details about her online after her allegations garnered media coverage.

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.

Through the carousel

A girl whose birth on an Air Canada flight made international headlines died five years later in pain and neglect in the early, isolating months of the pandemic, an Ontario Superior courtroom heard in March.

A woman in her late 60s has been acquitted of a sex crime against her then 17-year-old stepson in Ottawa 40 years ago because the judge couldn't be sure Canadians in the 1980s would have found it morally reprehensible.

A 74-year-old retired nurse with mental illness who has been jailed and hospitalized dozens of times in the past six years was released from custody on Friday, and her brother — and the assistant Crown — worry it’s just a matter of time before she’s arrested again.

Relatives of a 74-year-old retired nurse in Cornwall say Ontario’s health care and justice systems need to rethink how they handle people with mental illness, and their caregivers. After her mental health took a turn for the worse in 2018, she’s been charged and hospitalized dozens of times, only to end up back in jail, on the street, or admitted to hospital again.

An Ottawa lawyer accused in a lawsuit of sexually harassing and defaming a former client has been noted to be in default for a second time, and faces the possibility of his case being dealt with without his involvement.

The former head of the union representing rank and file Ottawa police officers and civilian members — who resigned in 2022 years after criminal charges were laid against him and was recently elected chair of a board that advocates for veterans of the force — is facing a new charge.

After seven years, the second-biggest lawsuit ever filed against the City of Ottawa is one step closer to the end after closing arguments were heard at trial this week — but a decision might still be a long way off.

A woman forced out of her Ottawa apartment after water poured in from the ceiling last winter says repairs took too long and her co-operative repeatedly failed to communicate and extend hotel stays until after checkout, causing undue stress while she was trying to conceive.

Some critics say the city isn’t doing enough to get replacement trees in the ground a year after a derecho windstorm destroyed thousands of trees across Ottawa, and after Mayor Mark Sutcliffe campaigned on a promise to plant a million in his term.