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A big day at the Hockey Canada trial on Friday: Carter Hart questioned about consent videos, memory gaps, a team group chat after the players learn police are investigating, and the steps he took to ensure E.M. was consenting. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Accused player Carter Hart testifies in Hockey Canada sex-assault trial
Hart is the first witness the defence called after Crown prosecutors closed their case Thursday
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May 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
A big day at the Hockey Canada trial on Friday: Carter Hart questioned about consent videos, memory gaps, a team group chat after the players learn police are investigating, and the steps he took to ensure E.M. was consenting. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
The judge hearing the sexual assault trial of 5 former world junior hockey players won't consider statements that some of the players gave a Hockey Canada investigator during the organization's investigation. The evidence was ruled inadmissible... www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Hockey Canada sex-assault trial won’t consider 2022 statements told to investigator
Crown sought to use notes from interviews between a Hockey Canada investigator and accused players to show inconsistencies, but they were ruled inadmissible
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May 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The judge hearing the sexual assault trial of 5 former world junior hockey players won't consider statements that some of the players gave a Hockey Canada investigator during the organization's investigation. The evidence was ruled inadmissible... www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
The last defence lawyer acting in the sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team finished questioning the complainant on Tuesday, putting an end to seven gruelling days of cross-examination. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Defence in Hockey Canada trial finishes questioning of complainant after seven days of cross-examination
Lawyers for the five players have pressed E.M. about inconsistencies between her court testimony and statements she gave to police
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May 14, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The last defence lawyer acting in the sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team finished questioning the complainant on Tuesday, putting an end to seven gruelling days of cross-examination. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Why didn’t the complainant in the criminal trial of five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team tell her best friend – with whom she had been texting hours after the alleged incident – that she had been sexually assaulted? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Hockey Canada complainant pressed by defence on why she didn’t tell friend about alleged sexual assault
In lengthy cross-examination, lawyer for Dillon Dubé points out that complainant did not tell best friend of alleged assault in text messages the next day
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May 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Why didn’t the complainant in the criminal trial of five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team tell her best friend – with whom she had been texting hours after the alleged incident – that she had been sexually assaulted? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
“I couldn’t possibly recall every single detail that soon after and being that traumatized still and trying to get all the details out to a stranger in a room,” E.M. said. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Defence in Hockey Canada sex-assault trial spars with complainant over her testimony about alleged incident
Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dubé and Cal Foote are each accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2018. Each has pleaded not guilty
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May 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“I couldn’t possibly recall every single detail that soon after and being that traumatized still and trying to get all the details out to a stranger in a room,” E.M. said. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Wednesday's proceedings ended early after the complainant broke down under cross-examination by Megan Savard. This is what happened: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Defence lawyer in Hockey Canada trial presses complainant on inconsistencies in statements to investigators
Lawyer for one of the accused asserts complainant acted in a way that would have led the players to assume she was consenting
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May 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Wednesday's proceedings ended early after the complainant broke down under cross-examination by Megan Savard. This is what happened: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Defence counsel representing one of the five former junior hockey players on trial for sexual assault presented an alternative version of events to the jury Tuesday, in which the complainant – not the players – instigated the sexual activity. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Defence lawyer in Hockey Canada sexual-assault trial alleges complainant asked for ‘wild night’
The woman at the centre of the case testified she was feeling very drunk and has memory gaps about the night of the alleged assault
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May 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Defence counsel representing one of the five former junior hockey players on trial for sexual assault presented an alternative version of events to the jury Tuesday, in which the complainant – not the players – instigated the sexual activity. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
One of the defence lawyers involved in the sexual assault trial of five former world junior hockey players has alleged it was the complainant who asked his client, Michael McLeod, to invite his teammates to the hotel room where the alleged attack occurred. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Defence lawyer in Hockey Canada sexual-assault trial suggests complainant asked for ‘wild night’
All five accused men have pleaded not guilty
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May 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
One of the defence lawyers involved in the sexual assault trial of five former world junior hockey players has alleged it was the complainant who asked his client, Michael McLeod, to invite his teammates to the hotel room where the alleged attack occurred. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
In her 2nd day of testimony at the sexual-assault trial of 5 former junior hockey players, EM testified that she felt she had no choice but to go along with what the players were asking her to do on the night of the alleged group assault in a London hotel www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Hockey Canada complainant tells sexual-assault trial she felt she had no choice
London court heard the woman, known as E.M., recount the events of what happened at a downtown London hotel on June 19, 2018
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May 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
In her 2nd day of testimony at the sexual-assault trial of 5 former junior hockey players, EM testified that she felt she had no choice but to go along with what the players were asking her to do on the night of the alleged group assault in a London hotel www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Breaking: York Regional Police have made an arrest in connection to a 2024 shooting at a Green Infrastructure Partners (GIP) industrial lot in Vaughan, Ont. a suburb north of Toronto. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toron...
Arrest made in 2024 shooting at facility owned by GIP, sister company of waste giant GFL
The shooting was first in a string of attacks that occurred over a series of months last year
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April 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Breaking: York Regional Police have made an arrest in connection to a 2024 shooting at a Green Infrastructure Partners (GIP) industrial lot in Vaughan, Ont. a suburb north of Toronto. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toron...
I was very proud to accept the Breaking News NNA on behalf of our team in Paris (and back home) that covered the Olympic Canada Soccer drone spying scandal. This one was special for me, because about 4 years ago I started taking weekly French lessons... www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
The Globe and Mail leads the National Newspaper Awards with nine wins
Newspaper’s honours are for coverage including the war in Ukraine, an investigation into Canada Soccer and Canada’s housing crisis
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April 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I was very proud to accept the Breaking News NNA on behalf of our team in Paris (and back home) that covered the Olympic Canada Soccer drone spying scandal. This one was special for me, because about 4 years ago I started taking weekly French lessons... www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
A judge has declared a mistrial in the sexual-assault trial of five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team, just two days into the proceedings. A new jury is being selected today. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Judge declares mistrial in sexual assault case against five former world junior hockey players
The five players were each accused of sexually assaulting a woman in London, Ont., after a Hockey Canada gala in 2018
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April 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A judge has declared a mistrial in the sexual-assault trial of five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team, just two days into the proceedings. A new jury is being selected today. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
The sexual-assault trial of five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team opened with a warning from the Crown attorney: There will be times during the proceedings when jurors may find it difficult to understand the actions of the complainant. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Crown calls on jury to avoid rape myths in trial of former Canadian world junior players
Crown attorney begins laying out prosecution’s case, saying it is about consent
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April 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The sexual-assault trial of five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team opened with a warning from the Crown attorney: There will be times during the proceedings when jurors may find it difficult to understand the actions of the complainant. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
SECRET CANADA — You didn't think we'd abandoned you, right? Our FOI database is still going strong, but we're making a few changes to ensure that the team has time to keep this going. www.secretcanada.com/news/new-foi...
April 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
SECRET CANADA — You didn't think we'd abandoned you, right? Our FOI database is still going strong, but we're making a few changes to ensure that the team has time to keep this going. www.secretcanada.com/news/new-foi...
The premier professional organization for Canadian litigators is facing mounting criticism over its decision to cancel the keynote speaker at its end-of-year gala over concerns about the man’s social-media posts on Gaza and Israel. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Cancelled speech to legal society by Syrian-Canadian speaker causes uproar
Some members took issue with a social-media post from Tareq Hadhad in which he called for a stop to what he described as the ‘genocide’ in Gaza
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April 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The premier professional organization for Canadian litigators is facing mounting criticism over its decision to cancel the keynote speaker at its end-of-year gala over concerns about the man’s social-media posts on Gaza and Israel. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Now, a controversy around executive pay and process was evolving into something even bigger. It has sparked fundamental questions about the extent to which the legal regulator has an obligation to the profession and the public to be transparent. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Inside the Law Society of Ontario’s decision to release report on ousted CEOs pay rise
Executive pay controversy sparked fundamental questions about the extent to which the legal regulator has an obligation to be transparent
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March 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Now, a controversy around executive pay and process was evolving into something even bigger. It has sparked fundamental questions about the extent to which the legal regulator has an obligation to the profession and the public to be transparent. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Pressure is mounting on Ontario's law society to release a confidential report into how its recently ousted CEO received a more than 50-per-cent salary increase – bringing her pay to nearly $1-million – without the knowledge of the regulator’s board. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Law Society of Ontario faces calls to release report into recently ousted CEO’s pay increase
Report was prepared by former associate chief justice of Ontario and examined the actions of then-treasurer Jacqueline Horvat, who is now a judge
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March 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Pressure is mounting on Ontario's law society to release a confidential report into how its recently ousted CEO received a more than 50-per-cent salary increase – bringing her pay to nearly $1-million – without the knowledge of the regulator’s board. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
The Globe is doing such good stuff right now. Check out this amazing Buy Canadian guide. Standing ovation to the team. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Want to know how to buy Canadian? Our updated guide to replacing the biggest American imports with local brands
From food and cookware to beauty products and apparel, The Globe and Mail suggests alternatives for consumers looking to Buy Canadian
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March 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
The Globe is doing such good stuff right now. Check out this amazing Buy Canadian guide. Standing ovation to the team. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
The President of the United States is trying to destroy us. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Donald Trump is trying to destroy Canada
The U.S.’s tariffs are meant to break us. The only thing that they’ve certainly broken is the trust between historically close neighbours - maybe forever
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March 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
The President of the United States is trying to destroy us. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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A reminder that Trump’s tariff reasoning about fentanyl coming from Canada is… a lie
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White House using misleading fentanyl data to justify tariffs
Some fentanyl seizures attributed to the ‘northern border’ had nothing to do with Canada and were traced to Mexico
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March 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
A reminder that Trump’s tariff reasoning about fentanyl coming from Canada is… a lie
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This is amazing. Love this economics lesson by way of children's book illustrations @mingwong.bsky.social and @markrendell.bsky.social // Drawings via @apricotjoy.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
The Canadian dollar is in its flop era. An illustrated look at why the loonie fell
If President Trump slaps tariffs on Canadian goods, the loonie could tumble further, perhaps to the low-to-mid-60s last seen in the early 2000s
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March 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This is amazing. Love this economics lesson by way of children's book illustrations @mingwong.bsky.social and @markrendell.bsky.social // Drawings via @apricotjoy.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
McCarthy Tétrault LLP has “paused” a much-heralded hiring program for Black and Indigenous law students in a move that some lawyers within the firm worry is the beginning of a wider effort to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
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Law firm McCarthy Tétrault pauses hiring program for Black and Indigenous students
McCarthy Tétrault said the decision to pause the program was made as part of a strategic review of its overall recruitment approach
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February 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
McCarthy Tétrault LLP has “paused” a much-heralded hiring program for Black and Indigenous law students in a move that some lawyers within the firm worry is the beginning of a wider effort to roll back diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
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Hi Bluesky! I'm Robyn Doolittle. I'm a reporter at the @theglobeandmail. I cover the corporate law beat in our business section and prior to that was a longtime member of our investigative team. I still dabble in deep dives and continue to work on our Secret Canada project www.secretcanada.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Hi Bluesky! I'm Robyn Doolittle. I'm a reporter at the @theglobeandmail. I cover the corporate law beat in our business section and prior to that was a longtime member of our investigative team. I still dabble in deep dives and continue to work on our Secret Canada project www.secretcanada.com
@simonhoupt.bsky.social okay i give up. i'm here.
February 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
@simonhoupt.bsky.social okay i give up. i'm here.
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From the March issue of Report on Business magazine: How debt and deals fuelled the rise of Patrick Dovigi's garbage empire. Plus, his thoughts on the recent spate of shootings and arson, too. By @robyndoolittle.bsky.social and @timkiladze.bsky.social
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How GFL’s CEO Patrick Dovigi accrued billions in debt, had his house shot at, and still managed to win back investors
Dovigi pulled off a pivotal move for the waste management company after its massive debt load and a series of shootings and arson attacks
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February 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
From the March issue of Report on Business magazine: How debt and deals fuelled the rise of Patrick Dovigi's garbage empire. Plus, his thoughts on the recent spate of shootings and arson, too. By @robyndoolittle.bsky.social and @timkiladze.bsky.social
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