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A crime prevention expert is praising a campaign to revise the Criminal Code in an effort to protect bus drivers from being attacked. “We’re seeing a continuing uptick in assaults and threats against bus drivers in many Canadian cities,” said security consultant David Hyde. Liberal MP Ralph Goodale wants the feds to fast-track his private […]
MoreRAW VIDEO: http://www.ottawasun.com/2013/10/31/bill-to-protect-assaulted-bus-drivers-gains-momentum Legislation could be in place by Christmas to amend the Criminal Code and deter assaults against bus drivers. Liberal MP Ralph Goodale is pushing for Bill C-533, which makes assaulting an on-duty bus driver an aggravating factor during sentencing. “What the bill essentially says is when the judge has found the defendant […]
MoreA 35-year-old Ottawa man is facing an attempted murder charge in connection with what police are calling an unprovoked an attack on a woman. It happened on Oct. 22 at 2 p.m., when a bearded man allegedly struck a woman in the head with a hammer as she got off the O-Train. The woman, 27, […]
MoreA suspect is on the loose after reportedly raping a young woman in a residential neighbourhood in Barrhaven. It happened around 9:30 p.m. Friday on Deerfox Dr. at Woodroffe Ave., north of Strandherd Dr. “I didn’t hear a thing,” said resident Andy Malguzzi. “I wish I did. I wish I could’ve done something about it.” […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2013/10/19/ottawa-police-crack-down-on-drivers-rolling-through-stop-signs City cops can add OC Transpo rider to their list of decoys. Twenty-one tickets were dished out by officers in a 70-minute traffic blitz on Thursday as Ottawa Police were out enforcing stop sign violations, the focus of October’s Selective Traffic Enforcement Program. Drivers, predictably, were full of excuses. ”We’re hearing exactly […]
MoreA city cop is nursing arm injuries after being struck by a motorcycle in Kanata on Tuesday, the Sun has learned. Numerous sources confirm the off-duty cop was working an overtime shift, directing traffic near a construction site on Eagleson Rd., when the bike went into an area that was cordoned off. The officer stepped […]
MoreMotorists who slow down, look around, then cruise through stop signs will be targeted on either side of the river this month as part of the Selective Traffic Enforcement Program initiative. “People need to understand when it says stop, it means stop, not roll through it, not just keep going,” said Ottawa Police Const. T.J. […]
MoreAzaan Hamid had just gotten dressed for gym class at D. Roy Kennedy P.S. when the fire alarm went off around 10:35 Thursday morning. “I thought it was a drill,” said Hamid, 10, adding “everyone was getting out of the building very calmly.” They had reason to panic – an armed man had walked into […]
MoreA 27-year-old west-end man is wanted in connection with nearly two dozen offences, including a shooting in Nepean last month, and city cops are asking for the public’s help to cuff him. Behzad Behruzi has links to numerous gun offences, a break and enter, and uttering threats, say police. “I think there’s about 20 charges […]
MoreThirteen years behind bars isn’t long enough for “monster” rapist Gilles Simard, say the nieces whose childhood he stole. “We did get a lot of years compared to some that get very few, so we’re happy with that, but at the same time, we wish we could take him off the streets forever so that […]
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