Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate
I have the privilege of following this trial from a distance, never in the courtroom, measuring how much of it I can manage at any time and only hearing what I do through the somewhat neutralizing intermediary force of the Continue reading Borutski trial part six: His truths continue to emerge
It is easy, in the business of a criminal trial with its focus on the accused person, to almost lose sight of the victim of the crime. Sometimes, the victim may choose to be silent; may not wish to engage Continue reading Borutski trial part three: Women’s voices
Considering that Basil Borutski has not spoken publicly since his interview with the police and the letter he wrote to the Ottawa Citizen two years ago, his voice was loud and very present in the first few days of his Continue reading Borutski trial part two: Whose voices will be heard?