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The Ryan case again: it’s justice but is it just?
“You obviously have something against Nicole Ryan,” declared a reader of my column last week. In it, I’d questioned the Supreme Court’s decision not retry Ryan on charges she’d hired a hit man to kill...
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Russell MacKinnon should have gone to jail
What was he thinking? That he could baffle, buffalo, bamboozle past way too many inconvenient contradictions from too many witnesses with too little to gain to lie about what he’d done? That the law...
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The hit man, the sexual assaulter, the courts and justice
It’s been an unsatisfying week for the be-seen aspect of that justice-being-done-and-being-seen-to-be-done shibboleth. The more we learned the more clear it is we still don’t know all we need to know...
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Feeling ‘compassion fatigue’ for Trevor Zinck
So… Trevor Zinck has “compassion fatigue.” His problem is not that he defrauded taxpayers of $9,000 by stealing money destined for charities, and sponsorships, and poured it down the bottomless drain...
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Peter MacKay has never smoked dope. Pity
So Peter MacKay has never smoked dope. Perhaps that’s his problem. If, indeed, he’s telling the truth. Last week, the justice minister got his knickers in a knot when Liberal leader Justin Trudeau’s...
View ArticleCrime and the young… discuss
Crime and the young. It’s complicated, far more so than any tough-on-crime Tory politician could — or would probably want to — capture. Consider last week’s police blotter. In Cole Harbour, a...
View ArticleThe girl whose name we know but now can’t say…
I can’t tell you her name. You know it already. She’s the teenaged girl who committed suicide after an alleged sexual assault at a house party was photographed and posted online, triggering months of...
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Jian Ghomeshi, Gerald Regan and the court of public opinion
Jian Ghomeshi What a wild, weird week! The bodies from the Parliament Hill shootings and the Quebec murder-by-car had not been buried, their meaning not yet processed, when the CBC announced last...
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Bourque, Zahef-Bibeau, personal consequences and public accountability
Justin Bourque There is little doubt re-watching video of Justin Bourque chillingly describe the targeted killing of their husbands, sons, fathers — “It’s sad,” Bourque explains blandly. “They might...
View ArticleWhat’s terror? Who’s a terrorist? And other aftermath questions…
It can’t happen here. It won’t happen here. It — almost — did. But what is “it”? And how do we protect ourselves against whatever it is? On Friday night, I was at Scotiabank Centre enjoying the...
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