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Jamie Sarkonak: Steven Galloway's accuser won't even argue that she told the truth

Several defendants in former UBC prof's defamation trial have settled, while woman who accused him will not testify

The rape allegations that destroyed professor Steven Galloway’s career a decade ago were never actually tested. Indeed, the woman who made them isn’t planning to defend their accuracy in a defamation trial scheduled to start next month.

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If it sounds like you’ve heard about this case before, you probably have. Galloway, an author and member of the University of British Columbia creative writing program, had an affair with a grad student older than he was, starting in 2011. Both of them were married at the time. It ended sometime in 2013 — and then, the student began telling people she’d been raped.

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Though the woman’s meetings with police and campus bureaucrats about her alleged rape never yielded charges, Galloway was fired in 2016. A judge hired to investigate what had transpired could not find evidence to support the sexual assault allegations (though she did find that sexual harassment, as........

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