Greg Gilhooly
@GregGilhooly
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Dad, Graham James survivor, very tall, Princeton, UofT Law, lawyer but NOT the Ottawa lawyer with the same name. Non-negotiable: be civil, kind, respectful.
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There are a lot of men clearly struggling with the fact that there are women who understand far more about hockey than they ever will.
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#CNN
having Kevin O'Leary on to speak for Canada and Trudeau is like us having Sarah Palin on to speak for
@BarackObama
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Hockey culture: I was elected as a director to my local hockey board, saw something that didn’t smell right, started asking questions, was ostracized, but ended up uncovering over $100k in training camp fees being siphoned off to a fellow director. You need to rock the boat.
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Great hockey tournament, and a phenomenal victory. But, that event and winning a gold medal has zero to do with being “medicine” for Hockey Canada. This is exactly the problem, confusing a high profile event with fundamental issues far more important than hockey games.
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If you have to ask “Hey, did you go to the police?” the night after supposedly consensual gang sex, chances are there might be some real questions about how consensual the events of the preceding evening really were.
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The Winnipeg Free Press is about to publish a six part expose on Graham James - the untold story. There is a lot that hasn’t been told. And, a lot will remain untold even after this series. You will never know how much remains untold. But we do. We can’t forget.
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@gtconway3d
That's about the same number of people who have alleged he inappropriately put his hands on them.
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Hockey culture: So many otherwise leading voices in hockey and hockey media have been remarkably silent as the Hockey Canada crisis (and it is a crisis) plays out. Self-preservation and self-interest are roadblocks to meaningful systemic change.
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For those struggling today as to how to capture Bobby Hull, remember that there are still people in hockey who say “Of course he did some bad things, but Graham James was also a great coach who helped kids advance far further than they would have without him.”
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So senior Hockey Canada officials receive bonuses based on the successes of our national teams, not the enrolment figures in the game generally, or the increased enrolment within previously under-represented communities? Hockey culture. What’s important, what are the priorities?
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Sheldon Kennedy was strong when I couldn’t be. He fought our battles first, on his own. It was never as easy as he made it look to others with his strength and grace. He has done enough. We have taken enough of him from him. Godspeed, my friend.
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To Whom It May Concern: I will gladly receive my second dose of AstraZeneca vaccine anytime now please should others not wish an AZ shot. Yours truly, Somebody Who Understands Math
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@JulieSLalonde
I can personally attest to the fact that being abused by Graham James does not directly result in political extremism.
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Amanda Todd’s online abuser got thirteen years. Graham James got far less for hundreds and hundreds of sexual assaults. I sure wish the Canadian courts would acknowledge what a disgrace the light sentences for Graham have been. He should be in jail for the rest of his life.
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The circus is packing up and getting ready to move on, the lights are already starting to dim. Please remember Kyle Beach. Once the focus shifts elsewhere, he will still have serious issues to deal with. Victims/survivors always do. He needs your ongoing support. We all do.
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I’m watching this testimony. It’s all so entirely predictable, so sad. I’m a highly experienced senior lawyer who played hockey, was abused by Graham, and went through the HC compensation process. You’d think there would be a role for me to help Hockey Canada in this area.
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Hockey culture. The Hockey Canada executive in question is the one who dealt with me. The organization failed so badly and never, ever reached out to me for input when I offered to help prevent future mistakes. This was entirely predictable and entirely avoidable.
@gregbradyTO
The saddest revelation has been that a senior Hockey Canada executive, when prodded to go to police, went first to his superiors, not the police. The first instinct was to protect the organization, not do what was proper, right, and required.
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Graham James was a more than just a hockey coach. He was a substitute school teacher in Winnipeg working for the St. James-Assiniboia School Division. He actually taught me several times in the midst of it all. After class, Graham got physical with me on school property. 1/x
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Hockey Canada's crisis counsellor suggested forming a committee to hold HC to account as it implemented change. But, it rejected anybody who was calling for removal of HC's senior executives or the HC board as part of that change. That's not change, that's self preservation.
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@rwesthead
Which is interesting because the board itself should be resigning too. The board presided over all of this, including the promotion of Smith into the leadership role.
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While we're talking about sexual abuse in hockey, I just want to make something very clear to those of you lucky enough to have not gone through it: it's way, way worse than you can ever imagine. I'm not looking for sympathy, or likes, I just want you all to know that.
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How does a child sexual predator groom a victim? What is it like to go through that, to be groomed, to be abused, to live in the aftermath? What can we do to try to stop it from happening? How does our legal system fail us? My book, "I Am Nobody" is about all of that.
"Child sexual abuse is nothing less than the murder of a child's soul and it should be treated as nothing less in society."
A must listen interview with
@GregGilhooly
as he confronts the sexual abuse he has suffered.
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@gregbradyTO
The saddest revelation has been that a senior Hockey Canada executive, when prodded to go to police, went first to his superiors, not the police. The first instinct was to protect the organization, not do what was proper, right, and required.
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Re Graham James, instead of "Disgraced hockey coach Graham James..." how about "Convicted serial child sexual offender..."?
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Hockey Canada buys time for self preservation. You can already hear it: “Out of respect for the ongoing process there will be no further comment at this time.” We already know HC failed. Leadership, including the board who oversaw all of it, must go.
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I turn sixty in a few days. Sixty. The list of people responsible for me sticking around this long in spite of it all includes so many in the media who were there to tell my story. You have no idea how important they have been, how important they are.
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Lost opportunity. The NHL throws away a relatively low cost chance to win back goodwill. Forget what the risk-averse lawyers tell you, doing the right thing for a victim is good business.
Update: The NHL has informed a lawyer for "John Doe 2" that the league will not cover costs of counselling/therapy for him and his family.
An NHL employee wrote in an email the league will leave that matter for the Blackhawks to manage, JD2's lawyer said.
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@rwesthead
But will they release all of the correspondence that the players themselves had amongst themselves or with others, including agents? Will they waive solicitor-client privilege and release all correspondence and discussions with their lawyers?
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OJ Simpson, wife-beater and killer, died. That’s all that needs to be said. Nothing about his athletic achievements mattered after we became aware he was a wife beater and a killer.
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@rwesthead
To be clear, Hockey Canada not only required me to sign an NDA (not the other way around, “to protect the victim”) but Glen McCurdie and Hockey Canada wouldn’t let me out of my NDA when I asked.
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I must say, I much preferred the world when it wasn’t seen as a bad thing to be educated and informed.
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People know, and they’re keeping quiet. It’s wrong. It has to change. Coming clean about who was there, who did what, isn’t being a rat, a bad teammate. It’s being a man. Stand up and be a man. I love hockey. I hate how hockey protects hockey guys.
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The NHL will end up settling all litigation relating to this. So, and I say this as a lawyer, why take legal positions that only matter in court and that are just awful from a PR perspective? Forget what is legal, do what is moral, and you'll come out ahead in the long run.
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Sinead O’Connor stood up and called out the Catholic Church in the most aggressive way possible. She lost so much because of it. But she was right. History shows that those who mocked her, who banned her, were the ones who fell short. She was the hero.
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#NHL
#Blackhawks
I came forward with my story to try to make it easier for everybody to reveal hidden secrets. I didn't come forward expecting to see an NHL organization stay quiet about having passed on a predator to an even more dangerous situation with access to kids. 1/2
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Re
@HockeyCanada
: I don’t have a vendetta, I don’t want to tear anything down. I want to help make it better. Everyone at Hockey Canada needs to focus not on preserving their roles in Hockey Canada, but on doing what’s best for hockey and Canada.
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Clarifying a Code of Conduct to make clear that gang rape off the ice is something not acceptable is not the successful step forward that
@HockeyCanada
seems to think it is.
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Hockey culture must change so that the first instinct isn’t to protect the team or a teammate, but to ensure that inappropriate and/or illegal behaviour is called out - immediately. Not years later, but immediately.
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I Am Nobody: Confronting the Sexually Abusive Coach Who Stole My Life by Greg... via
@amazon
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@heylandsberg
The puck is trapped under the pad. That’s when the play ends. The pad moves back into the net. Whether or not the puck crossed the line, the pad only reverses back into the net because Reilly’s stick drove it back after the puck was trapped. No goal.
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Hockey Canada executives testifying in Ottawa this past week had no idea whether or not Graham James was still in jail. They knew how much they’d paid us, but they had no idea about him other than as a financial line item. And, they never followed up with us to see if we were OK.
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I’ve been tweeting a lot about something many probably think I should just leave behind. But this is healthy, me taking control, no longer willing to sit back and let things hurt me over and over again. This is me saying, finally, I’m alive, and it’s not I who should be ashamed.
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, we need to have a talk about what happened. We were let down by the community. People in the police, in the school system, knew he was going after kids and did nothing, letting him get to more of us. Decades later these people got pensions. Where’s my pension?
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Graham James, in addition to all of the other stuff, abused me on school property while a substitute teacher one day after subbing a class I was in while in the midst of the madness. The St. James-Assiniboia School Board refused to help me when I disclosed what happened.
Convicted sex abuser Graham James and the St. James-Assiniboia School Division are being sued for millions of dollars in damages for alleged incidents of sexual abuse while James was a substitute teacher in 1983.
@WinnipegNews
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A reminder that just because there’s no conviction in a sexual assault matter doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. Our legal system doesn’t get at truth, but instead a very high bar before the state will step in and sanction a person. “Not guilty” is in no way “innocent”.
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Re Kyle Beach, meetings, and phone calls that people don’t remember. Wouldn’t it be nice to live in a world where morals, common sense, and a sense of responsibility mattered.
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Bill Cosby. Guilty, but not behind bars; out on bail. Do convicted murderers get bail? Courts need to see sexual assault for the serious crime that it is. We often sentence those who rob banks more severely.
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@rwesthead
"Insensitive and inappropriate" are words one might use to describe the Chicago Blackhawks' response to the victim.
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Graham James uses his middle name "Michael" now. "Michael James" is Graham James. He can change his name, but not who he really is.
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I’m as proud of having built my garage as I am of anything I’ve done in my professional career.
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@frank_seravalli
@HockeyHallFame
With respect, sometimes hockey players are involved as part of their hockey careers with things more important than hockey. If they fail at that more important level, why should game of hockey reward them?
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@rwesthead
After release from jail for sex offences, Graham James was found coaching youths in Spain. Years later, when brought back from Mexico for further charges, he received letters of support from families whose boys he'd helped. Funny how they go right back to their prey.
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Tonight is a celebration of decency. A father who coached his sons, commuted daily by train, survived tragedy, and served with grace. Hate his politics all you want; what a wonderful, lovely symbol. He’s imperfect, flawed, even a little goofy. But he’s decent. And that matters.
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@EvanLSolomon
Earlier today on your show I restated my call for Hockey Canada’s board and senior management to resign.
@ShelKenn
has just issued a statement calling for the same. May there be strength in numbers as we collectively move for positive change.
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A decade ago previously convicted serial child sex abuser Graham James was released on bail. Today, Peter Nygard was denied bail. The Supreme Court spoke loudly in 2020 making clear that the courts had not treated sexual assault cases sufficiently seriously. Abusers murder souls.
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I'm a Hockey Canada supporter and wish new leadership only the best. However, trust will only flow from actions. So, my question isn't for HC but the feds: Why reinstate funding in advance of complete transparency and reform and final resolution of the incidents in question?
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It’s great that Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted. But you know who did something even worse? The men who sexually assaulted those girls. Men close to Epstein who knew what was going on but looked the other way. This was no secret. They deserve the harshest public shame.
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Sports idols are just people, just like the rest of us. So, chances are just about half of them support Trump. Don't be surprised when Bobby Orr, Jack Nicklaus, and Doug Flutie come out on his side. Instead, ask yourself why you care about what a sports entertainer thinks.
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I echo this statement and have been saying exactly this for awhile. I literally volunteered to help Hockey Canada change when I saw first hand how they dealt with me and Graham James. The minute I signed my NDA I never heard from them again. They thought they had all the answers.
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The Supreme Court of Canada today, unanimously, agreed that sentences for those who sexually assault children must increase because we now better understand just how awful the crime is. The court had accepted exactly what we’ve been fighting for. It’s a remarkable judgment.
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An experienced lawyer and Graham James victim/survivor, I could have saved
@HockeyCanada
literally millions in lost sponsorship money had I been a part of their team to help guide them through their sexual assault issues. I offered to help years ago, but never heard back.
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Unlike many in the Winnipeg hockey community who chose to believe and support Graham James, Tom Miller said he’d kill Graham if he ever got the chance. I liked Tom Miller. A lot.
The St James Jr Canucks express great sadness and heavy hearts to hear of the passing of beloved past president Tom Miller at the age of 85. Mr. Miller was president of the Jr Canucks for 37 years.
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Where is
@hockeymanitoba
on the
@HockeyCanada
crisis? Hockey Manitoba ignored my questions about what it did in the aftermath of the Graham James revelations, as well as recent findings by
@jeffkhamilton
published in the
@WinnipegNews
in his December 2020 expose. Why the silence?
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8/x Most importantly, how seriously does the school board take its responsibility to the children it teaches with respect to the actions of its teachers both in the schools and within the communities generally? Well, I received a letter last night, a very short one. END
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A suggestion. How about the sporting world hire a bunch of us who have suffered the worst imaginable within sports and listen and take our advice as to how things could be made better and safer, rather than hire consultants and “experts”? We really do know best.
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One of my college roommates died today. A hero to his wife and daughters, a great guy, somebody who took the time to talk and listen to me at my lowest of lows. Born of a privileged background, he gave back and worked tirelessly his entire career as a prosecutor. Heartbreaking.
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People who refuse to act while knowing abuse is happening deserve severe sanction. Instead, they often remain in place and end up being honoured, while the victim is left to try to figure out a world where that could happen.
we don't talk enough about the harm that comes when people choose to cover up abuse. the burden of being silenced destroys people. this woman bravely reported to police + hockey canada. for 5 years, she was gaslit, minimized + re-harmed. this behavior needs to be criminalized.
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@rwesthead
When you’re a victim the Crown effectively conducts an internal trial to determine whether there’s a likelihood of success prior to bringing charges with respect to a victim. This victim is fortunate in that she has legal representation going into the matter. Most victims don’t.
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@rwesthead
There was a time when an inadequate response could be explained away by not understanding the issue coupled with a promise to do better in the future. But this happened after the light was already shining on these issues. There can be no excuses here.
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Everybody should be focusing on what is best for “hockey” and “Canada”, not what’s best for those currently leading Hockey Canada. The strongest thing they could do would be to bring on board those of us who can help, immediately. There would be no shame in that.
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Re the Supreme Court of Canada: Many applaud the Court finding a way to good outcomes when we agree with those outcomes, but there's a fine line between "unwritten constitutional principle" and "we're just making this up in the face of good law". Be careful what you wish for.
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My New Years resolution: To ensure that Graham James is seen for who he still is, and to see that those who enabled and supported him, and who continue to do so, are required to answer for their actions. Enough is enough.
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I absolutely, positively, guarantee that the lights at the arenas will remain on and hockey will be played without interruption even if the entire Hockey Canada board and leadership is immediately replaced. HC leadership even suggesting otherwise is an abomination.
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Sheldon has been open about how difficult his recovery was, how many times he failed before succeeding. To me, he serves as an inspiration to never give up, to maintain hope, to keep trying. With regular watering and gentle care, we can bloom again. We have so much to give.
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I say this as a lawyer: hockey would be well served by ignoring its insurers and legal counsel and instead focusing on doing the right thing. Doing the right thing from the outset is, in the long run, good business. Stop listening to the technocrats and bureaucrats.
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Tonight would be a good time for Hockey Canada’s board to confirm, immediately, that Hockey Canada is fully complying with all authorities and has waived any solicitor-client privilege it may have with respect to this matter.
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It’s scary how familiar this is. Fear, shame, self-destruction, and hopefully redemption and a second act. He needs our help for that. We need your help for that.
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Proud father with his daughter after her musical at Western. Spooky makeup for The Addams Family.
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Can I place a bet on how many people watching hockey detest all of the gambling ads and placements?
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Child sexual offenders are everywhere. Never believe that "so-and-so is such a good person he would never do that". Unfortunately, the people who "do that" tend to try to cover their tracks by developing good reputations in the community.
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@ShelKenn
@WinnipegNews
We will all try to say the right things. But I’m mad, madder than I’ve ever been. Here’s what I want to know: Why isn’t Graham behind bars, and why aren’t the adults who knew and did nothing back then facing their own reckoning?
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Paul Fenton, lawyer for one of the players, says police have already cleared the players of any wrongdoing. No, they decided that w/o cooperation by the victim a conviction was unlikely. Perhaps the media should ask Mr. Fenton for a copy of the wrongdoing clearance certificates.
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@CTVdawnwalton
@CTVCalgary
Civic money should result in a corresponding equity stake, otherwise it's a gift to ownership. Teams say they are philanthropists in the community. Unless their gifts exceed any civic funding, that's not philanthropy, that recycled civic money.
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@rwesthead
All of you may think that you know, but you still aren’t going far enough in your thinking. You have no idea how ugly this is going to be. The legal process for a sexual assault victim is its own terror beyond comprehension.
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My wish for 2023: Please, lighten up a bit. We all want to make things better, but nobody holds any absolute truth and we’d all be better for seeing things from the other side. After all, we’re all in this together, and none of us are getting out of here alive. Happy New Year!
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Hockey culture: Peter Woods supports Hockey Canada. He also has ignored numerous requests from me to describe what Hockey Manitoba did to dig deeper into Graham James and others in local hockey, and to follow-up up on
@jeffkhamilton
revelations in
@WinnipegNews
Dec 2020 series.
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5/x I came forward twelve years ago. Last year when Kyle Beach came forward, it reminded me we still have work to do. Organizations need to think victim first, legal liability second. So I reached out to the St. James School Board to take its temperature.
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The series by Jeff Hamilton and the Winnipeg Free Press was very well done, but is only a start. Sheldon asks two excellent questions in his coda. I will be asking more. For too long too many have been too comfortable in their silence, or even their outright support for Graham.
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While we’re on the subject of sexual assault in hockey, and as a lawyer fully understanding concepts of punishment and rehabilitation, why the F isn’t Graham James, guilty of hundreds of sexual assaults, still in jail? Asking for a friend.
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I think it would be better for the kids to just call for a do-over and give them all a year of their youth back. Re-do the school year starting in the Fall. Up the age groups in sports by a year. Push back college by a year. The world stopped. There’s no rush to grow up.
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@OrenCNN
@ddale8
@thejointstaff
Very powerful. Still, I'm guessing the others who signed probably laughed a bit when they realized they'd have to include Space Force Guy in their letter.
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Re Paul Bernardo: There’s no reason he shouldn’t be in maximum security for the rest of his life. We over incarcerate for so much, but are too light on the worst offenders. We treat them better than their victims, to our shame, and this imperils needed progressive reform.
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Re Kyle Beach: I believe that everybody is genuinely trying to do what they believe is the right thing to do. However, good people make mistakes when they lose focus. Right now the focus needs to be, at all times, on the victim, Kyle Beach. Do right by him. The rest can follow.
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For those of you out there talking about compensation for having been repeatedly raped, let’s start the bidding at, say, a gajillion dollars as to what it would take to compensate me to go through it all again. And you know what, I wouldn’t take it. Gajillion doesn’t come close.
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The St.James school board has never taken responsibility for the monster in their midst. To my understanding they’ve never investigated to see if there are more victims out there. They’ve acted at all times as if Graham is a hockey issue, not a school issue too. 3/x
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