Wait, There's More

On this episode of Wait, There’s More, host Tamara Khandaker speaks with Global News feature writer Jane Gerster, about a case that is unfolding at a Canadian university in which one law professor refuses to remain silent about the alleged conduct of a former professor. It’s a bizarre case that begins at the law school at the University of Windsor, transforms itself into a defamation case filed in a Carribean court, then returns to Ontario as an insurance lawsuit.

None of the allegations in those cases have been proven in the courts. But documents filed in the Ontario court case shed light on the allegations and explain why law professor Julie Macfarlane insists she has a duty to speak out.

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On this episode of Wait, There’s More, host Tamara Khandaker speaks with Sam Cooper, Global News reporter, about his investigation into money laundering in B.C.'s real estate market.

Cooper explains how alleged criminals use something called bare trusts to launder money through anonymous real estate deals. "They have made B.C., especially in Canada, a tax haven and a money laundering haven for international corruption suspects, the international elite and criminals."

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Today we’re talking about Raptors president Masai Ujiri and why so many people are calling what happened to him an incidence of racial profiling. While the team and fans celebrate, Ujiri may be charged with battery against a peace officer for an incident that took place right after the game at Oracle Arena in Oakland on Thursday.

Over the weekend, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department told the Associated Press it was recommending that Ujiri be charged for allegedly shoving a sheriff’s deputy while trying to get on the court to celebrate the win with the team on Thursday. There are competing versions of the event and it’s still unclear what happened. 

We speak with Greg Weiner, a season ticket holder who saw the incident go down, and with Toronto-based human rights lawyer Anthony Morgan.

The incident has triggered an intense reaction from fans, and many see this as a clear example of the way black men are mistreated by police.

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The Toronto Raptors are champions. Thursday night in Toronto was magical. In the sixth game of the NBA Championship Finals, the Toronto Raptors won 114-110, beating out the Golden State Warriors to win the Raptors' first championship in franchise history.

The Raptors win. That’s it. That’s the podcast.

We'll talk to Jeff Semple from Global News. He was at the Oracle Arena as time ticked down on a historic night. We also check in with Vivek Jacob, an editor at Yahoo Sports Canada, and we connect with Kathleen Newman-Bremang, a staff writer for Refinery 29 and contributor to Lainey Gossip and a Raptors superfan.

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Protests erupted in Hong Kong on Sunday as tens of thousands of people spoke out against legislation that would allow the territory’s citizens to be extradited to Mainland China. Demonstrators have tried to storm government buildings and police have responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.

Tamara Khandaker speaks with Crystal Yeung, a Canadian human rights lawyer who lives in Hong Kong; and Grace Yeung, a Hong Kong resident who explains why she’s taken to the streets to protest; and Vincent Ni, a BBC journalist who explains Hong Kong’s sensitive relationship with China since the end of British governance in 1997. 

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As Canada prepares for its federal election in October, the government tries to deal with misinformation and election interference in the 2019 federal vote.

Major platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter will have to be prepared for the upcoming election and monitor fake accounts that run political ads.

Craig Silverman, a media editor from Buzzfeed News, talks to Tamera Khandaker about media manipulation and online disinformation.

Silverman explains why misinformation on social media platforms influences how users vote. 

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We speak with Diana McNally, who got pregnant as a teenager and wanted to get an abortion. She scheduled one at a Toronto clinic. But the day she was supposed to get it, she walked through the wrong door and into a crisis pregnancy centre instead. And this accidental encounter had a life-changing impact on her and transformed the way she thinks about choice.

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Around 800 cases have been tossed out across the country following the timelines set out by the R v Jordan decision three years ago.

In 2016, a Supreme Court decision came down that shook Canada’s criminal justice system. 

For years before this, criminal lawyers, victims’ advocates, and judges had been speaking out about how long it took and how complex it had become to prosecute a criminal case. In the case known as R v Jordan, the supreme court blasted the system   and all the players within it for what they described as a culture of complacency -- things were moving too slowly, and people caught up in the system - victims of crimes, as well as the people accused of crimes -- were waiting years for justice. 

The key message of R v Jordan was to push everyone working within the system to quote cooperate in achieving  reasonably prompt justice. The decision set hard time limits on how long it could take for a court to reach a verdict in a trial. And it left the legal community scrambling to meet the new deadlines.

Three years later, we’re checking back in. And what we’ve found is a number that one victim’s advocate called shocking.

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A daily Global News podcast released every afternoon just in time for your commute home. The world moves way too fast and it’s easy to fall behind the news cycle. Host Tamara Khandaker takes you inside the headlines to reveal the full story, explore new angles, ask tough questions, and talk directly to the people most affected by the big stories.

We hope you join us starting June 10th.

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