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Margaret Atwood: The Steven Galloway case's red-hot money trail

Opinion: I was horrified to learn what UBC has been doing with our money. Why was it in taxpayers’ interest for UBC to stretch this case out for eight years, shedding dollars along the way?

We wuz robbed, as the comic books used to say. And we wuz robbed by UBC. Or it certainly looks like it.

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Like everyone else in the Canadian literary sphere, I’ve been following the Steven Galloway defamation trial that started on Oct. 5. In the past weeks, there’s been one revelation after another.

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So much was unknown before this trial; now, so much is known. For 11 years, nobody knew what exactly was Galloway supposed to have done. It was all under wraps. But now we know the times, the places, and the activities claimed by his accuser. You can’t rape someone unless you’re in the same room with them, and at the time he was supposed to be doing his raping Galloway was discussing hamburgers with a friend by text from a bar where he was watching a hockey game. (If Mr. Hamburger Helper had stepped forward earlier with these texts, he would have saved many people some pain. But I guess he forgot. As it was, Galloway himself found the text messages, though long after the initial investigation.)

More: The original two lawyers, Joanna Birenbaum and David Wotherspoon, who’d pursued this case from an anti-SLAPP suit to an........

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