Nicholas Köhler

Nicholas Köhler is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Maclean's, the South China Morning Post and The Christian Science Monitor, among other places. He has reported from around the world, including New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, northeast Japan after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, and more recently from Myanmar as it lurched toward democracy. You can reach him at [email protected].

Ottawa

What did Ray know? An explosive day in the Mike Duffy trial

Nicholas Köhler on a wild day from Courtroom 33, where Nigel Wright was pressed on how much Ray Novak, the PMO’s current chief of staff, knew

Canada

Donald Bayne vs. Nigel Wright: ’That’s not actually true, is it?’

Nic Köhler on the transformation of the Crown’s star witness

Ottawa

Donald Bayne channels Aaron Sorkin’s purple prose

’Nigel Wright watched Bayne warily, his eyes screwed into him like bolts.’ Nicholas Köhler reports from the Duffy trial

Ottawa

’Oh gawd, it’s Lurch!!!’ Mike Duffy in The Trial of the Century

Week 9: ’Did he orchestrate a monstrous scheme against Sen. Duffy? Or is he Harper’s fall guy? It doesn’t matter, just get his tie straight!’

Ottawa

Donald Bayne meets Nigel Wright: Let the cross begin

Mulroney. Morals. The meaning of ’force.’ Mike Duffy’s lawyer takes on the PMO’s former chief of staff in day two of Nigel Wright’s testimony

Canada

’I was doing a good deed.’ Nigel Wright takes the stand

Mike Duffy as a contractor from hell, and an improbable story made plausible through force of will. Nick Köhler resumes his post at the Mike Duffy trial