2024 introduced late-night emergencies, in-depth investigations and a extremely popular call-in present.
Right here in descending order is a glance again on the most-read tales of the yr on cbc.ca/ottawa.
5 members of a household that had just lately moved to Canada from Sri Lanka had been killed in a south Ottawa townhome the evening of March 6, together with a household acquaintance.
It is thought-about the worst mass killing in Ottawa’s latest historical past, and made worldwide headlines.
Febrio De-Zoysa, who turns 20 in February, was charged with six counts of first-degree homicide and for the tried homicide of Dhanushka Wickramasinghe, the household’s father.
His trial is scheduled to start in November 2025.
This was one of many most-read tales of 2024 throughout all of CBC Information.
6 lifeless, together with mom and 4 kids, in Ottawa mass killing
Police have recognized the victims of a mass killing within the Ottawa suburb of Barrhaven as a Sri Lankan newcomer household, together with a mom, 4 kids and a 40-year-old acquaintance who was residing within the residence.
A couple of yr in the past, Heather Insley bought a textual content from her son the identical day they thought they had been cremating him.
It turned out the hospital had misidentified a unique dying affected person as her son.
CBC heard from the households once more this autumn about a scarcity of communication from the hospital.
The video story was additionally one of many yr’s most-viewed movies by our crew.
She watched her son die at an Ottawa hospital. Then, she bought a textual content from him
In January, Heather Insley spent three excruciating days at Ottawa’s Montfort Hospital, watching her eldest son die. Days later, she was talking with him on the telephone, in what turned out to be a case of misidentification.
This write-up based mostly on an Ontario Right now present about defending the flexibility to pay with money appeared to strike a critical nerve.
Solely 10 per cent of transactions in Canada had been finished utilizing money, an economist advised CBC at the beginning of summer season. (Andrew Vaughan/ Ontario Chronicle)
Paying to cowl some repairs is a part of the deal when shopping for a apartment, however some residents of a 40-unit advanced in west Ottawa stated they had been shocked by a $600,000 invoice to repair leaky glass and railings.
It gave them just a few months to provide you with a number of thousand {dollars}, and a few did not understand how they’d pay it.
Lynn Braun moved into her apartment on Stratas Court docket about 18 months in the past and confronted a $13,000 price to cowl repairs to widespread areas. (Stu Mills/CBC)
In October 2023, world sustainable expertise firm Umicore broke floor on a $2.76-billion facility simply west of Kingston that may produce battery elements for electrical automobiles and make use of about 600 folks
In July 2024, Umicore halted development on the plant, citing a “important worsening of the EV market context.”
In line with the final replace from the corporate in November, development was nonetheless “paused” and a strategic evaluate of its battery supplies operations was nonetheless underway.
The Umicore plant broke floor in 2023. (Dan Taekema/CBC)
A woman whose start on an Air Canada flight made worldwide headlines died 5 years later in ache and neglect within the early, isolating months of the pandemic, an Ontario Superior courtroom heard in March.
The main points of her mom’s ex-boyfriend’s crimes had been saved from the general public resulting from a publication ban, as was info across the charges in opposition to her mom.
Chloe Guan-Department’s 2015 start on a airplane was a world sensation. Her physique was present in Ottawa in 2020 per week after these pictures had been taken. (Kristy Nease/CBC)
The Metropolis of Gatineau is shifting forward with a licence plate price to fund public transit, and residents will not be allowed to maintain their Ontario licence plates to keep away from paying.
That $60 tax begins in January.
A photograph of drivers on Freeway 50 in Gatineau, Que., the morning of Sept. 11, 2024. (Felix Desroches/CBC)
Late on Nov. 15, in a darkened Ottawa courthouse, a jury discovered Jean-Bruno Fenelon responsible of first-degree homicide for killing Marie Gabriel in a jealous rage as she was making an attempt to kick him out of her home in March 2022.
Fenelon bought the automated first-degree homicide sentence of life in jail with out parole for 25 years.
Marie Gabriel, 24, was killed by the daddy of her kids in an act of intimate associate violence. (Provided by Andy Stone)
A 16-year-old northern Ontario lady was airlifted to Ottawa’s kids’s hospital in November after her ex-boyfriend allegedly hit her together with his automobile after which attacked her with a sword.
Kaylie Smith was stabilized at CHEO as her household stayed by her hospital mattress.
Her ex Phillipe Gagnon faces a number of charges together with tried homicide and aggravated assault.
Court docket data present he assaulted Smith’s stepfather in Could and acquired a conditional sentence and probation in October — simply days earlier than he allegedly attacked Smith.
Household of alleged sword-and-SUV assault sufferer speaks
CBC’s David Fraser spoke to the household of a 16-year-old lady who was brutally attacked in Cobalt, Ont. Kaylie Smith is at the moment recovering at CHEO in Ottawa. This story accommodates graphic particulars.
Kaila Bearman, 21, Juliette Côté, 22, and Riley Orr, 23, had been killed in a collision between a speedboat and what police referred to as a fishing-style boat on Bobs Lake north of Kingston on Could 18. 5 others had been injured.
A witness advised CBC they heard the roar of a speedboat and the crunch of a crash, then took a ship out to attempt to assist.
Coté’s household agreed to talk to CBC later that month and described her as a “drive” — equal elements strong-willed and sincerely loving.
Matthew Splinter, 44, faces 12 charges round harmful operation and impaired operation of a vessel.
3 lifeless after lengthy weekend boat crash in Ontario
A ship crash on an japanese Ontario lake Saturday evening has left three folks lifeless and 5 others injured.
Here is yet another high story with the provincial border as a key piece.
Many individuals work and reside in numerous provinces. Generally they get medical care within the different province, too.
An Ottawa household medical clinic stated as of August it might not settle for out-of-province sufferers as a result of it was too difficult logistically.
A Gatineau household that had moved to Quebec from Ontario and had been utilizing the clinic for eight years advised CBC that spring they had been being discharged.
Samira Drapeau and Drew Williams stated within the spring they fearful about discovering look after themselves and their younger son after being advised they’d be discharged from their longtime Ottawa clinic. (Natalia Goodwin/CBC )
