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So much for best-laid plans. After hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal and public-relations fees, Jian Ghomeshi once again looked to be riding high, his reputation, if not fully rehabilitated, at least rejuvenated. He’d made some smart moves. Rather than rushing forward with an ill-fated attempt to come at the CBC seeking arbitration for…
12:53 PM, Wed., May 11, 2016 Hi everyone. Thanks for coming out and listening. My name is Kathryn Borel. In December of 2014, I pressed sexual assault charges against Jian Ghomeshi. As you know, Mr. Ghomeshi initially denied all the charges that were brought against him. But today, as you just heard, Jian Ghomeshi admitted…
A major wildfire near Fort McMurray in Canada has forced more than 100,000 people to evacuate the area and destroyed roughly a fifth of local homes. One of the affected houses belonged to a man by the name of James O’Reilly, who got a uniquely intimate perspective on his home’s demise thanks to a connected…
To the surprise of exactly no one with criminal law experience, Jian Ghomeshi was acquitted on all sexual assault charges. The media and supporters of survivors erupted with reaction. This case is an unmitigated disaster for sexual assault survivors, who should be our first priority. It doesn’t help anything to sugar-coat what happened here. By…
Today is a bad day. Today is also a perfectly distilled example of why you should be humming at a hyper-state of rage, almost constantly. You should be angry. You are allowed to be angry. Everyone let you down today. The Jian Ghomeshi verdict wasn’t surprising—sexual assault survivors are rarely heard by the justice system,…
In November of 2014, a Toronto mother of two walked into a police station to tell officers that Jian Ghomeshi had assaulted her. She did so after learning two things: 1) She wasn’t the only woman the former CBC radio host allegedly hurt, and 2) There was no statute of limitations on her claim that…
The judge overseeing the Jian Ghomeshi trial once threw out a similar — and even stronger — case after lawyers used some of the same tactics employed by Ghomeshi’s defence team. Like the Ghomeshi trial, the 2008 case involved a man accused of multiple sexual assaults. Like the Ghomeshi trial, defence lawyers attacked the complainants…
Disgraced former CBC broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi was found not guilty on Thursday morning in his first of two trials for sexual assault. The verdict, delivered from the bench by Justice William B. Horkins of the Ontario Court of Justice, cleared Mr. Ghomeshi of four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by…
As the world’s media struggles to explain the Donald Trump contagion, it has found a ready antidote in Canada’s dashing new Liberal prime minister, Justin Trudeau. While Trump promises to keep Muslims out, Trudeau is meeting Syrian refugees at the airport with his million-dollar smile. But amid the headlines about Americans literally begging Trudeau to…
via Valuewalk.com, The Canadian housing market has done extremely well for a very long time. As such, many people expect the trend to continue. That said, there are major vulnerabilities in the Canadian economy that pose a threat to the housing market’s continued success. In the following report we will examine the economy, the financial…