Nearly 24 hours in Kyiv without a blackout on the night of the first major snowfall of the year. Let's see if we can hit an all-day Saturday thing.
For everybody liking this, I took some pictures of the gorgeous snowy street scenes last night.
I'll start the thread for the Tamara Lich bail review here.
Last week we left off as Justice Johnston finished taking submissions and replies from Diane Magas for the defence and Moiz Karimjee for the Crown.
You can read last week's details here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1499050…
As we wait, I'll go over some of the big-picture points from last week. Lich, through her lawyer, claimed she had concerns that the original bail hearing was bias due to Justice Bourgeois' former position as a Liberal Party candidate. Bourgeois also received praise from Trudeau.
Mar 7, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
1/ I'm going to Ukraine. Over the past week, I've reached out to several outlets lining up coverage. Given my work with refugees from Uganda and Afghanistan, I'll be starting in Lviv.
Hopefully I'll be back soon, because that'll mean the war is over. If not, then I'll be staying
2/ I have story offers already.
Kit includes a laptop, of course. Photo gear. Audio production equipment. I'm looking to get as much reportage on the human toll of this war as I can, however I can.
These people's stories matter and as many as I can get out there, the better.
Mar 3, 2022 • 47 tweets • 11 min read
1/ Sometimes you come across something both intense and on the public record it demands attention. In this case, it's the saga of Diane Magas, the defence counsel for Tamara Lich and Chris Barber.
I don't care for leering, especially when it comes to defence lawyers...
2/ who perform a vital task in our courts. Lawyers are not their clients, the behaviour of their clients is not theirs, etc.
But this is an adjunct tale to our current saga, and it's wild.
It comes full circle to vaccine mandates at the end, promise.
Mar 2, 2022 • 315 tweets • >60 min read
Ok. It looks like THIS will be my thread for the Tamara Lich hearing. There's an audio test going on now, things seem to be working properly. Let's leave the other thread as an archive to the hubris of mankind.
#tamaralich#TruckerConvoy
For background, Tamara Lich was denied bail, along with Pat King and George Billings. Another major player, Chris Barber, was granted bail.
Reasonable bail is a charter right, not to be denied without just cause.
Let's see if we can get a proper thread started. We're delayed in starting anyway, so 10:30 is off the table.
Soon I can start furiously typo'ing away on my phone as I watch the trial intently, simulating the experience of being in a real courtroom.
#tamaralich
Lich was denied bail last week after she was deemed likely to reoffend. That's now being challenged today (reasonable bail is, after all, a charter right).
Lunch poll might happen for you folks if I'm too busy tweeting away.
Ok, here begins my live tweeting thread of the #billingsbail hearing. As usual, no I won't share the link with you, if you do have access don't livestream it like last time.
After stressing the clerks and trial coordinator at the Ottawa courthouse for nearly a week, I was finally given my Zoom credentials for the #truckerbail hearings (no, I won't share, don't ask). I was supposed to be at Hamilton courthouse today for a sentencing but snowed in.
(My wipers don't work and I'm not driving an hour plus unable to see)
