Shaamini Yogaretnam

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.

A 28-year-old man who was fatally gunned down outside Hampton Park Plaza early Friday evening was the groom whose wedding was destroyed by gunfire at Ottawa’s Infinity Convention Centre last summer, CBC News has learned.