Kristy Nease

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.