Meghan Grant
CBC Calgary crime reporter
Meghan Grant is a justice affairs reporter. She has been covering courts, crime and stories of police accountability in southern Alberta for more than a decade. Send Meghan a story tip at meghan.grant@cbc.ca.
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$5 treaty payments won't even buy Tim Hortons meal today, says Alberta First Nation in billion-dollar lawsuit
Bearspaw First Nation in southern Alberta is suing the federal government for $1 billion in a proposed class-action lawsuit, the latest in a series of lawsuits arguing that annual payments promised in treaties should have been adjusted for inflation.
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Man who hid girlfriend's body in woods and lit her house on fire gets 8-year sentence
The parents of a woman whose boyfriend hid her body in a forest after he pushed her down the stairs and lit her house on fire says they are broken and lonely following her death.
Canada -Calgary |
Calgary man found not guilty in fatal hit-and-run incident
A Calgary man accused of fatally striking a woman with his car and then fleeing the scene has been acquitted of hit-and-run causing death.
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'Know her name': Family mourns woman's death as former City of Lethbridge employee faces murder charge
The family of Ginnean Briggs-Scout sat down with CBC News to talk about their loved one, who was allegedly murdered by a man who worked for the City of Lethbridge.
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Calgary jury convicts 3 men in Douglasdale fatal beating
The three men on trial for first-degree murder in the beating death of Chad Kowalchuk have been found guilty of lesser offences after the jury returned its verdict on Day 3 of deliberations.
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Former Alberta MLA not guilty of threatening teens he chased with truck
Former Alberta MLA Derek Fildebrandt fist-pumped from the prisoner's box as a Calgary judge acquitted him on all four counts of uttering threats to a group of 13- and 14-year-old boys whom he chased in a truck through his southwest neighbourhood last spring.
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Jury convicts Calgary pair of murder, manslaughter in case of man found dead in alley
After 18 hours of deliberations, a Calgary jury has convicted a man of first-degree murder — and his female friend of manslaughter — in the case of a victim found dead in a southwest alley.
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Victims were 'ambushed' in fatal drive-by shooting, jurors hear
Two men killed in a drive-by shooting were “ambushed” by the killers who, according to the prosecution, “laid in wait” for their victims to leave a northeast lounge, jurors heard Monday as a murder trial got underway.
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'She wanted peace and safety': jurors hear closing arguments in Calgary murder trial
The lawyer for one of two people accused of killing a man whose body was dumped in a southwest Calgary alley told jurors in her closing statement to “resist the urge to make assumptions.”
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'Forgive yourself': Impaired driver who caused fatal crash sentenced to 4 years in prison
A Calgary judge offered words of encouragement to a man heading to prison following a conviction for impaired driving that caused the death of a pedestrian.
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