
Nicola MacLeod
Video Journalist
Nicola is a reporter and producer for CBC News in Prince Edward Island. She regularly covers the criminal justice system and also hosted the CBC podcast Good Question P.E.I. She grew up on the Island and is a graduate of St. Thomas University's journalism program. Got a story? Email nicola.macleod@cbc.ca
Latest from Nicola MacLeod

Kensington town hall reopens after old mortar shell and rocket fuel removed
Two representatives from the Department of National Defence made a trip to the Island Tuesday morning, staying for less than an hour before removing the two items from the central P.E.I. town's police department.
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New charge laid against Matthew Craswell over 2023 incident at West Kent Elementary
The former substitute teacher was first charged last summer and pleaded guilty in April in relation to an incident that happened in 2024 at Glen Stewart Primary School in the town of Stratford, just east of the P.E.I. capital.
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3 Ontarians to have big P.E.I. drug seizure case heard in Supreme Court
The three people from Ontario accused in one of the largest drug busts in P.E.I. history will have their case heard in the P.E.I. Supreme Court after one of the accused people made that choice for the group without the other two being on board.
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Holland College children's camp investigations end without charges being laid
Holland College says two investigations into a "serious complaint" made against a member of its children's camp staff have finished and no criminal charges have been laid.
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Wyman's fined $80K for not maintaining tractor that killed longtime worker in eastern P.E.I.
Island blueberry company Jasper Wyman & Son Canada Inc. will have to pay $80,000 after pleading guilty to a charge stemming from the death of a longtime employee who was run over by his own work tractor.
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Man admits to sexually assaulting teen girl as he pleads guilty in TikTok luring case
A Charlottetown man has pleaded guilty to using the social media platform TikTok to lure teenage girls to his home to commit sex crimes, also admitting that he sexually assaulted one of them.
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P.E.I. man who started string of North Shore fires in 2023 gets 2 years in prison
A 20-year-old Prince Edward Island man has been sentenced to two years in a federal prison for his part in a series of property fires along the Island's North Shore in the fall of 2023.
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RCMP arrest alleged Charlottetown child pornographer again on new charges
A Prince Edward Island man accused of making child sex abuse material and sexually touching a person under 16 is in jail after police say he violated the terms of his release — allegedly by contacting young people he should not have been talking to.
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Attempted murder case won't proceed against P.E.I. man who pleaded guilty to lesser charges
The case against a Kings County man accused of attempted murder has been resolved in Georgetown with the 26-year-old pleading guilty to two charges, while the more serious charges against him were stayed.
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Johnson 'has absolutely no insight' into his voyeurism crimes, judge says while jailing him
The man who worked as a podiatrist without any credentials and then was caught masturbating outside a Charlottetown woman's window will spend just over five months in jail, with a P.E.I. judge citing his lack of remorse for his actions.
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