CBC fires Jian Ghomeshi

[JLM]

And what is going to happen to the CBC, JLM. It is more than obvious now that many people knew what was going on at Q but they did nothing. The CBC has a lot to answer for in their handling of this entire situation.

Did you see Peter Mansbridge quizzing Heather Conway a few weeks back? A lot of "dead air" there!

Not only that. His behaviour in the work place is illegal. They allowed it to continue. They are as guilty as if they'd perpretrated the sexual harrassment themselves.

Of course you'd get lawyers just swarming over this. Information was voiced but possibly never put in writing. I would agree however that someone should have been responsible to get it in writing instead of just shrugging it off.

 

[WLDB]

Interesting and kind of depressing.

 

[JLM]

Interesting and kind of depressing.

I'm really not interested in wasting 3/4 of an hour on that A$$hole!

 

[WLDB]

I'm really not interested in wasting 3/4 of an hour on that A$$hole!

You have probably spent a hell of a lot more time than that on him combined in this thread. You also just came back for more.

 

[Locutus]

you hear that?





Todd Banks ‏@Banks_Todd

#JianGhomeshi sex scandal fallout: Two @CBC executives on leave of absence.



http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/todd-spencer-and-chris-boyce-on-leave-of-absence-from-cbc-1.2890411 …



@sheila_copps @elizabethmay @libbydavies


CBC executives Todd Spencer and Chris Boyce are on leave of absence "effective today until further notice," says a note from the corporation's vice-president of English services.


Spencer is the English service’s executive director of human resources and industrial relations. Boyce is the executive director of CBC Radio and audio.

 

[Locutus]

Colin PerkelVerified account ‏@Perkel

BREAKING: 3 New alleged victims have come forward and Jian #Ghomeshi now faces new charges. #cbc 3 more of sexual assault

 

[spaminator]

Jian Ghomeshi launches podcast project called

 

[spaminator]

Ghomeshi complainant: ‘I wasn’t ready’ for comeback
By Brad Hunter, Toronto Sun
First posted: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 02:47 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, April 11, 2017 04:09 PM EDT
Jian Ghomeshi’s return has rattled at least one of the women who testified against him during his sordid sex trial last year.
The disgraced former CBC superstar returned from his 18-month exile Monday with a podcast called the Ideation Project.
It was not something Linda Redgrave was prepared for.
“I found it very triggering ... re-experiencing the trial in my head, re-experiencing the trauma. I wasn’t ready for it,” Redgrave told Global News.
“It just felt a bit like a slap in the face that he came back so quickly. And after listening to The Ideation Project, it sounded more like he was trying to make it about Trump and about cultures and being exiled. But what I heard from it was, ‘I will not be exiled.’ That’s what I personally took from it. ‘I will not be exiled and here I am.’”
Ghomeshi rapid descent from beloved CBC host and downtown darling to pariah was lightning quick. In his salad days, Ghomeshi and his fanbase considered him just about the coolest Canadian. Ever.
Redgrave said Ghomeshi’s latest attempt at redemption is “premature.”
“If he wanted to reinvent himself, it’s just too soon,” she told Global. “And I think the wrong country.”
Redgrave — who waived her right to anonymity at his trial — claimed she met the silk-tongued lothario at a bash in December 2002. She called the encounter “flirtatious.”
Other encounters with the former host of Q were not as pleasant, she said.
Redgrave’s testimony on two counts of sexual assault was discounted by Justice William B. Horkins, who said there were too many inconsistencies. Ghomeshi was acquitted in March 2016 of allegations made against him by Redghrave and two other women.
Ghomeshi was canned from the CBC in October 2014 after the state broadcaster’s reps saw violent footage of their star injuring a woman.
Two months after his acquittal, Ghomeshi publicly apologized to a fourth complainant and signed a peace bond that led to the withdrawal of another sexual assault charge.
Linda Redgrave, a complainant in the Jian Ghomeshi trial. (TWITTER)

Ghomeshi complainant: ‘I wasn’t ready’ for comeback

 

[Liberalman]

Jian Ghomeshi was found innocent by a court of law that deals in proof and evidence but public opinion deals with half truths fake news and alternative facts. Public opinion kept the Afro-Americans in the southern United States from gaining equality for 100 years after their civil war. Public opinion keeps modern wars going, aborigional residential schools that let religious organizations to rape and kill the children and sends the wrong message to politicians that were elected for us to have a better life.

We have to remember that Jian Ghomeshi was found innocent by a court of law the same court that protects us all

 

[Johnnny]

Holy Sh!t Liberalman is back.

 

[Curious Cdn]

It was the same sort of legal process that turns rape victims into guilty perpetrators and it was all too common. "The law" is heavily weighted against that sort of complaintant.