Kristy Nease

Senior writer

CBC Ottawa multi-platform reporter Kristy Nease has covered news in the capital for 16 years, and previously worked at the Ottawa Citizen. She has handled topics including intimate partner violence, climate and health care, and is currently focused on the courts and judicial affairs. Get in touch: [email protected], or 613-288-6435.

Latest from Kristy Nease

Graphic bodycam footage of OPP officer's killing crucial for Crown and defence

Footage from the body-worn camera of an Ontario Provincial Police officer lethally shot by Alain Bellefeuille has been shown at his murder trial. It takes the jury to the heart of the case: did Bellefeuille know he was shooting at police when he repeatedly opened fire?

Former MPP Randy Hillier wins bid to appeal dismissal of COVID-19 lockdown Charter challenge

Ontario's highest court has ruled that gathering limits during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2021 unjustifiably violated the Charter right to peaceful assembly, and it's allowing former Ottawa-area MPP Randy Hillier to appeal the dismissal of his challenge to those limits.

'You shot a cop!': Gripping audio of arrest played at Bellefeuille murder trial

Key pieces of evidence in the trial of a man who shot and killed an Ontario Provincial Police sergeant in May 2023 were played in court Friday — audio and video of Alain Bellefeuille's arrest by a constable not long after shots rang out.

Neo-Nazi terror propagandist 'Dark Foreigner' guilty on all counts

An Ottawa man has been found guilty of trying to sow hate, fear and division by helping create racist recruitment videos and other terror propaganda for a now defunct far-right international terrorist group and a prominent neo-Nazi.

Eastway owner loses bid to argue his rights were violated

The owner of the company involved in a workplace explosion that killed six of its employees three years ago has lost his bid to argue that his Charter rights have been violated by an ongoing Ottawa police criminal investigation.

Teacher who pleaded guilty to having sex with students dies in custody

Shannon Quinn, who earlier this year pleaded guilty to having sex with two 17-year-old students and had not yet been sentenced, has died in custody.

Lawyer James Bowie guilty of harassment, extortion, death threats

A suspended Ottawa criminal lawyer has been found guilty of threatening to kill a former client who had publicly accused him of extorting her for sex, as well as criminally harassing another woman and trying to get her to obtain a firearm for him.

Former youth justice worker convicted of sex crimes involving boys under 16

An Ottawa man has been convicted of sexually interfering with high school students, using other boys he met online to make child porn, and secretly recording other naked boys at a juvenile detention centre where he was tasked with helping turn their lives around.

Dangerous offender imprisoned indefinitely after manslaughter, chokings

A man who brutally beat someone to death in 2021 has been declared a dangerous offender and sentenced to prison indefinitely.
CBC Investigates

New details exposed in Ottawa workplace explosion that killed 6

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.