Yesterday (Tuesday May 10) at 3:44pm I got an email from Christie Blatchford, which you’ll find below. I wrote back immediately to decline her request for comment, explaining that with mere hours to go before Ghomeshi’s court appearance I didn’t want to speculate on his legal strategy. I knew Ghomeshi was going to apologize and that Kathryn Borel was going to make a statement, and I didn’t want to distract from that. But I did know that Blatchford’s angle was inaccurate, and I offered to speak to her off-the-record to tell her why. She refused, and within hours she published a story.
Here’s what she sent me, and the response I am now able to provide.
Neither organization will say how much the deal is worth or whether it was appropriate to strike while Bell is appealing a CRTC decision to the same ministry.
One of our intrepid readers, who asked to stay anonymous, is happy to let us to take credit for his work. He built us a Wente bot.
Living comments section slash Globe columnist Margaret Wente wrote some words and that was already bad enough. It’s almost a relief to find out some of her work was lifted from other people.
For the last three months, 61 journalists at Nova Scotia’s self-described paper of record have been on strike. This is taking place at a time when print media in Canada is in deep, deep trouble.
Margaret Wente appears to have plagiarized at least four times from three different publications in her recent columns in addition to the two cases of plagiarism outlined in BuzzFeed Canada on Sunday and Monday, CANADALAND has learned.
The first witness in the Ghomeshi trial, Linda Christina Redgrave, said she asked the Crown to appeal the case. After CANADALAND reported on a “factual vacuum” in the ruling yesterday, some legal experts believe there may be grounds for the appeal.
The first witness in the Jian Ghomeshi trial repeatedly said she was assaulted in a yellow Volkswagen. Linda Christina Redgrave, as we now know her, described the car as a “Love Bug,” a “Disney car,” and a “Beetle.”
“Something is deeply broken, not only in the community, but in how we allow business to operate as usual,” says writer Joseph Boyden
