Offering kids the choice of candy or a potato this year because I saw a meme about it. And honestly it’s super funny to see their reactions. Update: A little girl just chose the potato “for my dad.”
(I let her take a candy, too, for being so cool.)

A cat just ran into my office and jumped up on my desk. I am at home. We don’t have a cat. The back door was open a crack for the dogs. I was working, heard a bunch of calamity and clatter in the hall, and then suddenly there’s this cat on my desk. (The most affectionate and lovely cat.)

A huge day today in one of Canada’s first big sexual assault cases of the #MeToo era.
After 70 days of trial and sentencing arguments, Matt McKnight is due to be sentenced this afternoon on five counts of sexual assault. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… We are starting at 2:30 MT (and possibly later as the court is being used for something else that appears likely to go a bit long.)
Some of the women involved in the McKnight case are here, waiting anxiously in the hallway. This has been many years in the making.

Like many others, I've been thinking a lot about Pamela George today, and also about her mother, Ina.
I met Ina George in the courthouse hallway in Regina 2005. It was 10 years after Pamela George's murder, and I was covering the murder of Ina’s son, Chad. While the first trial had been a circus, there were no other media covering Chad George's murder. Outside Ina and her family and myself, the courtroom gallery was empty.