Christie Blatchford

Her heart broke at the injustices she covered and soared at the heroism she felt privileged to witness. She left it all on the page.

A long-time court reporter on how she fell out of love with Canada’s justice system

Sorting through the latest imbroglio involving Toronto’s mayor

Protesters expected

The charismatic NDP leader’s sudden death unleashed six days of unprecedented mourning

Christie Blatchford is returning to UWaterloo on December 7

Protest shuts down Blatchford speech at UWaterloo

Colby Cosh on the one-time Reformer’s awkward position

Jack Layton, Sept. 1, 2006. “A comprehensive peace process has to bring all the combatants to the table.”

The paper’s columnist responds to the assorted tormentors of herself and, as she sees it, of the Canadian Forces. I’m content to let her have the last word, so I’m closing comments on this thread and will close comments on any thread that readers try to turn into a let’s-talk-about-Christie thread. Let’s use our keyboards or bums, as the case may be, to move on to other issues, or to get back to the substance of the detainee story.

In 20 years in journalism I have never seen anything resembling the systematic and sustained repudiation to which Christie Blatchford, the Globe and Mail‘s marquee columnist, is being subjected by her own newspaper. There is room in any good paper for disagreements among colleagues, and frankly there should, for a long time now, have been room for more of that at the Globe. But this goes further. This is breathtakingly methodical. And I believe it was needed.

David Pugliese undoes one of the more popular counters to Richard Colvin’s testimony.