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

P.E.I carpenter fined $30,000 after employee died in workplace fall at West Prince job site

A carpenter from western Prince Edward Island has been ordered to pay $30,000 after an employee died following a fall on a worksite that did not have the proper safety protocols in place.

B.C. man who sold fentanyl on P.E.I. sentenced to more than 4 years in prison

A young man who travelled to this province from British Columbia and sold drugs to Islanders has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison — with the Supreme Court justice rebuking him for acting solely out of greed at the expense of others.

Beamish gets day parole 31 years after killing Shirley Ann Duguay; can't return to P.E.I.

An Island man who served 29 years on a life sentence for killing his past partner has been released from a federal prison into a halfway house — with the condition that he not return to the province where it happened.

14 people and companies charged over alleged immigration scheme involving 2 P.E.I. farm operations

Fourteen people and companies with ties to Canadian Nectar Products and Island Gold Honey are facing charges under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act in P.E.I. provincial court, with some of them also facing criminal charges for money laundering.

Items removed from Kensington town hall don't date back to Second World War after all

The Canadian Armed Forces says the items that were removed from the municipal building in Kensington, P.E.I., earlier this week were not mementos from the 1939-1945 global conflict as first believed.

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.