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sno man said:
I'm not going back to assign credit, you know who you are, but there was a link to the Ontario Court page at the time, and the long and short was those pretrial meetings are pretty much hush hush, media wise. Other than notice of a new date, I don't expect we will hear any anything.
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but we haven't even heard a new date.
 
There was briefly a rumour of a (at the time) second video (now 5th(?)) and it was allegedly of a pretty hammered very naked Mayor getting fluffed... but the gist was escorts rather than rub-n-tug.
 
basic said:
I've been wondering the same thing too. I was following this, and expected to hear something by now. Surely a simple phone call to the Crown would explain this. Something is definitely up there.
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Was the pre-trial conference definitely postponed? I know there was a comment to that effect here, but that's all I ever saw. Either way, there wouldn't have been much to cover. The meetings are private and, as I understand it, deal mainly with managerial stuff to make trials run more efficiently. I wouldn't read to much into the lack of news coverage (though I've been wrong before).
 
But even if there is no new date, you would think even a small blurb saying it had been postponed. Or if it did happen, same thing. No mention of it when Lisi popped up last week.
 
basic said:
But even if there is no new date, you would think even a small blurb saying it had been postponed. Or if it did happen, same thing. No mention of it when Lisi popped up last week.
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Yes. I was expecting that and was puzzled when nothing was said at all. On the flip side, I used to cover courts way back in the early days of my career. Procedural stuff like this was postponed and rescheduled all the time. I'm of two minds, but am leaning toward the "it's nothing" conclusion. (I'll be happy if I'm wrong, though!)
 
basic said:
But even if there is no new date, you would think even a small blurb saying it had been postponed. Or if it did happen, same thing. No mention of it when Lisi popped up last week.
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I used to work for a woman whose ex was on trial for various criminal offences against her and more than once she was told to show up for criminal court, showed up and found out that the date had been postponed, no warning, no explanation. Granted this wasn't in Ontario but it doesn't seem criminal courts in general are reliable or forthcoming about these things.
 
Forty Fs said:
I used to work for a woman whose ex was on trial for various criminal offences against her and more than once she was told to show up for criminal court, showed up and found out that the date had been postponed, no warning, no explanation. Granted this wasn't in Ontario but it doesn't seem criminal courts in general are reliable or forthcoming about these things.
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Hearings are postponed constantly for various reasons. If she had an advocate, it was his responsibility to notify her. Otherwise, she probably missed the court date where the next date was postponed. That may not have been her fault - maybe she wasn't required to come to that, but that's when they asked to postpone. In my experience it doesn't really come out of nowhere. But my experience is somewhat limited, so take what you will from that.
 
euler said:
Hearings are postponed constantly for various reasons. If she had an advocate, it was his responsibility to notify her. Otherwise, she probably missed the court date where the next date was postponed. That may not have been her fault - maybe she wasn't required to come to that, but that's when they asked to postpone. In my experience it doesn't really come out of nowhere. But my experience is somewhat limited, so take what you will from that.
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Thanks. Yeah, that is probably what happened. She had no advocate so the only people notifying her of changes were at the Crown's office and they didn't do a very good job. Anyway, if they're that bad at notifying complainants you can imagine how piss-poor they are at notifying the public.
 
I don't think that there will be a big change forward, everything will be worse especially TTC which is already doing too bad.
 
Hobsh said:
I don't think that there will be a big change forward, everything will be worse especially TTC which is already doing too bad.
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You're responding to the first post in this thread, from Sept. 2010, and you can't be any more precise in your prediction of what Toronto will look like in four years?

How about Mayor Ford -- do you maybe see anything newsworthy happening to him personally?
 
Crazy said:
You're responding to the first post in this thread, from Sept. 2010, and you can't be any more precise in your prediction of what Toronto will look like in four years?

How about Mayor Ford -- do you maybe see anything newsworthy happening to him personally?
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;)
 
Crazy said:
You're responding to the first post in this thread, from Sept. 2010, and you can't be any more precise in your prediction of what Toronto will look like in four years?

How about Mayor Ford -- do you maybe see anything newsworthy happening to him personally?
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New UT Member --- I'll forgive it. I've done the same when browsing unfamiliar forums :D Too bad the lottery doesn't work like that.

However I do question the use of future tense:

Hobsh said:
I don't think that there will be a big change forward, everything will be worse especially TTC which is already doing too bad.
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It's as if Hobsh wrote this in 2010 and forgot to press the submit button for three years.
 
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