’I felt awe and fear’: New Orleans in the middle of Katrina
‘We would see a piece of someone’s roof fly by. We could see a tree fly by.’
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Michael Friscolanti
Senior writer Michael Friscolanti spends a lot of time at crime scenes and courthouses. The author of ’Friendly Fire: The Untold Story of the U.S. Bombing That Killed Four Canadian Soldiers in Afghanistan,’ he has won three CAJ Awards for investigative journalism and four National Magazine Awards.
Feds launch Supreme Court appeal in sons-of-Russian-spies case
Ottawa is going to the mat against the Toronto-born kids of KGB agents, saying they have no right to Canadian citizenship
Sons of Russian spies’ case comes to a head
Alex Vavilov won a court decision restoring his citizenship, but CSIS says his brother was ’sworn in’ by their spy parents. Will Ottawa fight to keep them out of the country?
The Shafia case is finished—finally
The Supreme Court puts to rest the honour-killing saga that scarred the country and left Muslims feeling besieged
Why Andrew Potter lost his ’dream job’ at McGill
High-profile writer forced out over a Maclean’s column in what’s being called an attack on academic freedom
Ontario’s ’poetic’ judge is back with another ruling
In a sexual-assault case, judge tackles the difficult question of whether to grant bail to an aboriginal man who has “no one in the world” to vouch for him
Portrait of a young ’honour killer’
How an old family photo could derail Hamed Shafia’s last-ditch appeal
Duped ’dad’ should not pay child support, judge rules
A court case tackles a rare question: What happens when a father discovers he’s not really the father?
Hundreds of suspected criminals could be about to go free
A Supreme Court ruling is a ‘wake-up call’ for the justice system at a time when cases have never been more complicated and resources stretched so thin
Who belongs on Canada’s sex offender registry?
A contentious ruling in Alberta would let judges decide, calling the entire program into question