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Done Like Dinner
The accused men, clockwise from top left: Patrick Brown, Kent Hehr, Paul Bliss and Rick Dykstra. Ernest Doroszuk/Postmedia; Jim Wells/Postmedia; CTV; Julie Jocsak/Postmedia Criminal courts offer...
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Christie’s Wise Words
I can think of almost nothing that requires less fortitude than accusing someone else of wrongdoing when your own face, name and identity are hidden. For all the other moments #MeToo has wrought, the...
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Lynch Mobs Running Loose
This is where we are now. An execution, then no trial. Just an execution. You can forget about process, due or otherwise. This week, a colleague at another paper wrote a rueful piece about the fall of...
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Nonsense
David Livingston and Laura Miller…The charges relate to the pair’s alleged attempted destruction of emails and documents relating to the billion-dollar gas plants scandal. TORONTO — The contention by...
View ArticleGood Question
As one of the political staffers in the office of former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty once wrote in the summer of 2012, this by way of an update to a colleague, “All gas plants all the time.” That’s...
View ArticleRoving Therapists
This undoubtedly is stating the painfully obvious, but there is something wrong with me: The more the first world emotes, the more reticent I become, the more I love the stolid, the private, the...
View ArticleMonster Case
More than four years in the making and much anticipated by political foes of the Ontario Liberal government, the so-called “gas plant” trial got off to a creaky start Monday. Two former senior aides to...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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...
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...
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: 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 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: 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...
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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...
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