Kristy Nease

The scars in Ottawa’s tree canopy, cut by a powerful derecho windstorm that killed twelve people in Ontario and Quebec, are beginning to fill in.

The man accused of murdering Sommer Boudreau in the Ottawa Valley had brushes with police amid mental health issues for years, and his ex-wife and sister think more could have been done. But experts say that’s tough to achieve in situations like this, with health care and criminal justice operating as they do today.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Through the carousel

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.