Ottawa cop gets out of the mud, and then some
Sgt. Chris McGuinness is not the kind of cop who’s going to ticket you for eating chicken while driving. He’s a cop who gives a fair shake and knows the street like nobody’s business. Worked four...
View ArticleCapital Hoedown CEO ‘a man of very modest means with significant debt’;...
It came as little surprise when the city said the show won’t go on at Walter Baker Park. Capital Hoedown never came up with the fees. They’ve had problems paying the bills for awhile. In fact, Capital...
View ArticleOttawa Police Constable Abid Nasim pleads guilty to neglect of duty
Ottawa Police Constable Abid Nasim pleads guilty to neglect of duty
View ArticleOttawa dad under police investigation in 2010 death of stepchild
A young Ottawa father who was branded a “bad parent” by the courts this month is now the subject of a police investigation into the 2010 death of his two-year-old stepchild, the Citizen has learned. In...
View ArticleCops bust guy in private-dick plot to spy and take ‘inappropriate’ pics of woman
This guy spent Thanksgiving in the clink. A Calgary man has been busted in a criminal voyeurism plot in which police say he hired a private investigator to tail and take ‘inappropriate’ photographs of...
View ArticleOttawa mom fears body in woods could be her son
Even after the police detectives came calling Monday, telling her about the discovery of a corpse in the woods, Nicole Nayel said hope faded last and then prayed for it not to be her son, missing since...
View ArticleOttawa kids lived in fear of ‘time bomb’ mom
GARY DIMMOCK Her five children lived in fear for years and were used to getting slapped about the head so much so that when they fell ill with the flu at school they begged teachers not to send them...
View ArticleOttawa teachers killed for no reason: 10 years later
This is the story I filed the morning Ottawa teachers Bob and Bonnie Dagenais were gunned down 10 years ago this week. It’s a story that should not be forgotten. GARY DIMMOCK They found the reputed...
View ArticleGraphic: Car and bodies recovered
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View ArticleMidnight on the dock in Fitzroy: Body of mom, son pulled from Ottawa River
It was just before midnight down at the Fitzroy ferry dock when police divers hauled up Daron Graves’ brand new Dodge from the bottom of the Ottawa River. His father, Dave Graves, stood at the dock as...
View ArticleNeil Reynolds 1940-2013: We might go out of business but nobody can fire us...
Neil Reynolds: A giant in journalism; Legacy Former editor-in-chief transformed papers into the best in the nation By Charles Enman Telegraph-Journal There is no doubt that Neil Reynolds, who died on...
View ArticleOttawa Hells Angels president wants to quit
I don’t know if Paul (Sasquatch) Porter has actually told the gang, but he did reveal his plan for the parole board. They didn’t let him out. He’s been a model inmate, has a plan, support and a job,...
View Article911: This is what I filed 12 years ago from Lower Manhattan
‘What kind of God would let this happen?’: The horror of searching for the corpses of their colleagues has left New York firefighters exhausted and angry. Through tears, they tell Gary Dimmock about...
View ArticleOttawa real estate agent Chris Hoare accused of attempted murder
OTTAWA — The first neighbour called 911 around 10 a.m. on Wednesday after he heard a woman screaming for help. The police were on their way to the modest Orléans home when they got a second call after...
View ArticleWynne serves Hudak, MacLeod with libel notice
OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has served a libel notice to Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak and Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod, following through on her earlier threat of legal...
View ArticleReal-estate agent Chris Hoare awaits bail hearing on attempted murder charge
OTTAWA — Chris Hoare, the Ottawa real-estate agent accused of trying to kill his wife with a baseball bat, remained in jail over the weekend as he awaits a bail hearing next Friday. Hoare, who is...
View ArticleDesjourdy had previous run-in for how he treated female prisoner
OTTAWA — The last time Sgt. Steve Desjourdy was up on internal charges for the way he did business down in the cellblocks, he showed remorse and pleaded guilty right away. The presiding officer at the...
View ArticleCornwall couple whose son was killed join massive lawsuit against GM (with...
OTTAWA — Nick Baker, a graduate of St. Lawrence College, promised his mother, Suzanne, he would never move out of their Cornwall-area home. The young man who loved floor hockey — and who knew the...
View Article‘Big Jack’ Rouschop impatiently awaits burglary charge
OTTAWA — Jacques “Big Jack” Rouschop is the last man in Ottawa you’d expect to embrace criminal charges for an out-of-town burglary. But when an Ontario Provincial Police detective visited him at the...
View ArticleMan in custody in suspicious Aylmer death
OTTAWA — A 49-year-old man was arrested early Monday in what appeared to be the stabbing and beating death of a 42-year-old Aylmer woman. Gatineau police were calling it a “possible domestic” crime,...
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