Posts by Nicholas Köhler

Ottawa

A great yawning anti-climax: Duffy leaves the stand

Sixty days into Mike Duffy’s trial, the saga’s main character finishes his testimony

Ottawa

Always be closing: A #longreads on Duffy’s day in court

Circular poetry in Courtroom 33 — back and forth, round and round, but wait until you get to the end

Ottawa

Exhibit 104, a powerful pose, and Mike Duffy’s performance of a lifetime

The day before the Crown gets to grill Mike Duffy at his own trial, the defence presents a fascinating photograph

March 13, 2015. Toronto, ON. Elton McDonald.Photograph by Della Rollins

Canada

Newsmakers 2015: Elton McDonald and the mystery tunnel

The discovery of his tunnel turned Elton McDonald into a folk hero who captivated the world

Ottawa

Mike Duffy takes the courthouse on a trip to the fair

Mike Duffy’s testimony continues, about a key Saanich trip and instructions from the Tories’ ’marketing wiz’—wink, nudge.

Ottawa

The genie of Cavendish pops free from his gleaming lamp

Courtroom 33 faces the full bluster of Mike Duffy: smiling, petulant, glowering—and suspicious, especially when he testified about how Stephen Harper’s PMO worked

Canada

Mike Duffy takes the stand, as the witness becomes a raconteur

The Mike Duffy trial starts its grand finale as the Ol’ Duff himself takes the stand, offering bounteous tales when quizzed by his own lawyer

Ottawa

A horrible, horrible dream: Mike Duffy in The Trial of the Century

Week 10: It was a dream, Duffy kept telling himself. The kids in short pants set loose in ’Lord of the Flies’. But, dream or not, he was still running.

Canada

The cherub who took the stand, smiled, and delivered a bad day

Former PMO in-house counsel Benjamin Perrin sat in the witness box at the Mike Duffy trial and gleefully took aim at Nigel Wright’s testimony

Ottawa

Nigel Wright: Watching the story, part of the story

In Courtroom 33, the Crown’s star witness became an issues management director writ small — turning every question to his favour

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