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

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...

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

... Many parts of those statements support details of E.M.'s version of events that she was hammered on during the cross-examination. For example: that Michael McLeod saw her fall at the bar (which he later denied to police). All 5 have pleaded not guilty 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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

“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 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

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 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

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 suggests complainant asked for ‘wild night’ All five accused men have pleaded not guilty

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...

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

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...

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

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...

However, I wasn’t confident enough to do a full sensitive interview in French. ENTER Sports Editor Jamie Ross who is sneaky bilingual! Very proud of the package from: Jamie Ross, Cathal Kelly, @simonhoupt.bsky.social Rachel Brady, Paul Attfield, @jasonkirby.bsky.social @mattlundy.bsky.social et moi

When this went down, I had to deploy my still pretty rudimentary conversational French to track down public records in France, navigate their law enforcement, and eventually locate and convince the prosecutor to do an interview.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

While the law society has declined to provide information about Mr. O’Connor’s findings, The Globe has interviewed six individuals with knowledge of events to create a timeline of what transpired. 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

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...

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

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...

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

The President of the United States is trying to destroy us. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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

A reminder that Trump’s tariff reasoning about fentanyl coming from Canada is… a lie

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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

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...

I'd been on the iTeam for a decade and was getting a bit bored. I didn't know anything about business reporting. Just trying something new. It's been fun!

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

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.

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

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.

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

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
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/rob...