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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.
Armed woman shot by police gets 5-year sentence
A woman who ran down an Ottawa residential street with a loaded gun after ditching a car last year — and who was later shot by an Ottawa police officer — has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Suspended lawyer's behaviour 'unflattering' but not criminal, defence contends at trial
The defence for Ottawa lawyer James Bowie — accused of criminally harassing a woman, trying to get her to obtain a firearm for him, and threatening to kill an ex-client in the woman's presence — says that while there's no doubt Bowie engaged in "unflattering" behaviour, none of it was criminal.
James Bowie takes stand, admits to tracking and following woman, denies scaring her
Suspended Ottawa lawyer James Bowie took the stand in his own defence at his criminal trial Tuesday, and admitted that he twice placed a GPS tracker on a woman's car and used it to follow her after she'd stopped communicating with him. But, he denied that he made her feel unsafe.
Extortion charge against James Bowie dropped as Crown closes its case
A criminal charge alleging that suspended Ottawa lawyer James Bowie extorted a client for oral sex in exchange for his legal services has been withdrawn by the Crown after the woman at the centre of the allegations testified over three days.