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.

Latest from Meghan Grant

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. 

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. 

'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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

'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.”

'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.

Former Lake Louise resort CFO sent to prison, fined total of $775K after convictions for fraud, tax evasion

Derek Nicholas Kwasney was handed a year in jail and a $106,000 fine for failing to pay taxes on money he embezzled from the resort. Those penalties come just weeks after he was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison and a $669,000 fine for a fraud conviction.