Blatchford: Inquiry into judge who had illicit pictures posted online a witch...
If it looks like a witch hunt and stinks like a witch hunt, it’s probably a witch hunt, however it’s dressed up. So it is with the Canadian Judicial Council’s release Thursday of the formal allegations...
View ArticleBlatchford: Manitoba judge’s sex scandal quickly turns into a circus (1)
WINNIPEG — The Lord does giveth and taketh away and so, just as the Red River Ex was moving out of town Sunday night, so was the circus rolling in the very next morn. Or so it seemed, at least, at the...
View ArticleBlatchford: Inquiry into Manitoba judge’s sex scandal stuck in limbo — along...
The federal inquiry into the conduct of Manitoba Associate Chief Justice Lori Douglas is mired in a procedural bog. That sad truth became undeniable Tuesday as no fewer than 16 lawyers, including some...
View ArticleBlatchford: The disaster that ended in Ashley Smith’s death began with prison...
If Canadians are outraged by the recent release of video depicting teenager Ashley Smith’s treatment in the federal prison system, it stands in stark contrast to how authorities reacted both before and...
View ArticleBlatchford: Defamation case against Rob Ford offers terrifying glimpse into...
It remains to be seen if George Foulidis, whose restaurant was awarded a controversial, long-term, untendered, exclusive lease on prime waterfront parkland by the City of Toronto, was defamed by the...
View ArticleBlatchford: Kachkar decision in no way ‘getting away with it,’ but verdicts...
In the stirring language of the imperfect but noble beast that is the Canadian justice system, Richard Kachkar put himself upon his country. It’s a phrase from jury selection, where an accused person...
View ArticleBlatchford: The government doesn’t answer questions about its military...
Now that Prime Minister Stephen Harper has put the Canadian Forces on notice that their presence is requested in Poland, I’ve no doubt the military will respond magnificently. The PM announced on...
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Blatchford: Chief Justice could have avoided catfight with PMO by recusing...
The real surprise, given the cautious nature of the Canadian bench, and how routinely judges speak of the need for justice not only to be done but to be manifestly seen to be done, may be that Chief...
View ArticleBlatchford: Criminal justice system had Shawn Rehn in its sights for months
Like the big, indolent beast that it is, the criminal justice system had Shawn Rehn in its sleepy sights for months before he shot and killed RCMP Const. David Wynn and wounded Auxiliary Const. Derek...
View ArticleChristie Blatchford on the curious, charmed life of Conservative Senator...
I have no doubt that the people who love the Conservative Senator Nancy Ruth (Rowell Jackman) just love her to pieces and find in her recent riff on the horrors of airplane food (“ice-cold Camembert...
View ArticleBlatchford: Audit shows Mike Duffy was unable to live within his means
OTTAWA — Amid howls from defence lawyer Don Bayne that he was “aligned with the investigation of the RCMP” and that the prosecution was seeking to use him to “leave innuendo” in the air, forensic...
View ArticleBlatchford: Alan Kurdi’s story should galvanize the world — but Harper can’t...
I may stand alone here, probably do, but I was grateful Thursday, as waves of emotion washed over the country and the world at the picture of little Alan Kurdi lying dead on a Turkish beach, for a...
View ArticleBlatchford: Tories can’t be faulted for missing footage of candidates...
Who are these people and how on Earth can they think so well of themselves and yet be such unremitting knobs? One is a guy named Tim Dutaud, who is known on YouTube as the UniCaller and who for a...
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“Seventies”…Again
Now, it’s radios that Canadian reserve units are expected to do without, probably until the summer of 2017. The army recently took away the old radios because it’s replacing them, Postmedia sources...
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Police Chastized
More than 10 years after the oft-violent native occupation of the Douglas Creek Estates housing site began in Caledonia, Ont., a judge has given teeth to the claim that the Ontario Provincial Police...
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Wrong Opinion
A teacher at a posh private school in British Columbia was fired last month after making an innocuous comment about abortion to his Grade 12 law class. Though there is no way of knowing, since...
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Justice 2016
It’s not every year that the criminal courts dominate the headlines as they did in 2016. More’s the pity too, because at least in the courts — unlike in other spheres, such as politics,...
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Pink Day
If it’s tricky to see the connection between the International Day of Pink (It’s Time to Talk About Bullying, Homophobia, Transphobia) and what Eric Brazau was trying to say in court Thursday, it still...
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Sorry Spectacle
Well, what a sorry spectacle that was, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan standing, 11 times by my count, in question period Monday and talking about “owning” his mistake and never intending to “diminish...
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Mistakes
This fight was born in 2006, in the desperation of the McGuinty government to make the mess go away without offending the indigenous community and at whatever cost There’s a Yogi Berra quote for...
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