Shaamini Yogaretnam

For 30 years, Brigitte Cleroux has impersonated everyone from a school teacher to a former roommate to a registered nurse and left a trail of deception and dishonesty in her wake. Her web of lies has spanned three provinces and two U.S. states.

Brigitte Cleroux has a three-decade long criminal record for fraud and other “crimes of dishonesty” across North America and CBC News has learned she’s now accused of impersonating a nurse at an Ottawa fertility clinic where she performed injections on patients without being qualified.

Almost 100 new Ottawa police officers received their badges this week as part of the most diverse class in the force’s history, which could also be the last large graduation of recruits for some time amid calls for a budget freeze.

Nicole Shanks pleaded guilty Friday to the charges of child abduction, assault with a weapon, assault, possession of a dangerous weapon and criminal harassment.

An Ottawa man who shot and killed two of his childhood friends and injured a third in 2017 has been convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.

An Ottawa police officer charged in the force’s “ghost warning” scandal began his police disciplinary hearing Tuesday, more than four and a half years after he was first charged with misconduct.

A 16-year-old boy who was the eyewitness to a homicide this summer and ultimately identified the alleged shooter was himself shot dead Monday morning, CBC News has learned.

Six employees from what began as an Ottawa-area family business more than 50 years ago are presumed dead in a catastrophic explosion and fire that witnesses likened to an earthquake. Here’s what we know about the business.

Russell McLellan is one of five missing employees who are presumed dead after an explosion at Eastway Tank on Merivale Road last week. A sixth employee was taken to hospital after the blast, where he succumbed to his injuries. A seventh remains in hospital at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.

Marie Gabriel was trapped in a violent relationship with an older man who controlled her every movement — from where she worked, to whom she spoke, and when she left the house, according to her family and friends.

The Ottawa Police Services Board is set to consider a proposal to hire members of the force’s own community equity council — a group intended to mend police relationships with marginalized groups — to help hire a new police chief.

The Ottawa Police Services Board has approved a controversial contract with volunteer members of the city force’s own community equity council — heralding it as the first community engagement process for the board that will be facilitated by racialized leaders.

The Ottawa Police Services Board has approved a controversial contract with volunteer members of the city force’s own community equity council — heralding it as the first community engagement process for the board that will be facilitated by racialized leaders.

A judges’ secretary was fired from her job and pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice after she looked at a wiretap warrant — only to find out her own fiancé was a target in a murder probe and their shared home had been bugged.

Seven people have applied to be the next chief of police in the nation’s capital, according to the chair of the Ottawa Police Services Board, who said the plans remain to hire a new chief before the end of this term of council.

An Ottawa police officer accused of sexually assaulting a rookie colleague in 2011 has been acquitted of any misconduct after a disciplinary hearing.

A community organizer who ran engagement sessions to help recruit the city’s police chief has been charged with forging a signature on a reference letter for another organization he founded.

Normally, the majority of homicide victims in Ottawa would be men. The fact so many victims in 2022 were women is a sign, in the words of one local advocate, of an ‘ongoing collective crisis.’

An Ottawa police officer who tried to breach the national police database to get information about his ailing 95-year-old father — in what was an attempt to see if the system was working — has pleaded guilty to misconduct.

The City of Ottawa is continuing a workplace harassment investigation into an alleged attack on the fire department’s first openly non-binary firefighter, even while there are active criminal charges laid in the case.