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

Drug dealer shot while daughter played in backyard, judge hears during manslaughter plea

A Calgary man who killed his drug-dealing boss pleaded guilty to manslaughter Friday.

$104,000 secret commission could cost investment advisor 6 years in prison

Jeffrey Ber, 43, was convicted in September on two counts of fraud over $5,000 and one count of accepting a secret commission from Blackbird Energy.

Man who shot 2 Calgary fathers in 24 hours pleads guilty to manslaughter

Taylor Roan, 27, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two counts of manslaughter in the 2022 deaths of Trevor Dendy and Nathan Ward.

Men guilty of 'cowardly' executions ask Alberta's top court to overturn murder convictions

Two Calgary men who were handed life sentences Saturday after jurors ruled they carried out what the Crown described as "calculated, cowardly" executions have appealed their convictions.

Teen guilty of manslaughter not murder in basketball court attack

Two brothers “disabled and isolated” their victim, carrying out a planned attack on a teen they left to die on an outdoor basketball court, prosecutor Vicki Faulkner told the judge presiding over the younger sibling’s trial. 

Sundre man murdered McDonald's co-worker with machete over perceived disrespect, says judge

A Sundre man who killed his McDonald’s co-worker in a machete attack has been convicted of first-degree murder and handed a life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years. 

'A whodunit case': Closing arguments, deliberations in Calgary double murder trial

It would be “extremely dangerous” for jurors to rely on the evidence of the prosecution’s star witness, defence lawyers argued in closing arguments of a first-degree murder trial in Calgary. 

Sister of domestic murder victim details destruction of family in wake of killing

The death and destruction in the Crosschild family didn’t stop at the domestic murder of Autumn, a 25-year-old Indigenous woman killed by Brandon Yellowfly, the man she once wanted to marry.

'Extreme act of violence': Man who drove over wife in U-Haul gets 15-year manslaughter sentence

A Calgary man who killed his wife by running her over with a loaded U-Haul was handed a 15-year sentence Monday as the judge called the crime "an extreme act of violence."

$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.