CANADA
The Tyee
[with copy of the lawsuit]
By Bob Mackin, 28 Jan 2014, TheTyee.ca
Journalist Laura Robinson is countersuing John Furlong and the marketing agency that represents the former CEO of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics for defamation.
Robinson’s Jan. 27-filed statement of claim (which is included at the end of this story) seeks an unspecified dollar amount for damages from Furlong and TwentyTen Group and an injunction to stop them from maligning her. Robinson immediately set March 30, 2015 to begin a British Columbia Supreme Court trial against Furlong and the company.
Robinson declined to do an interview, but in a news release, she said she filed the lawsuit after suffering from “the unrelenting attack by Mr. Furlong and his media advisors over the last 14 months.” She accused the defendants of “mistruths and malice.” Furlong and TwentyTen Group have 21 days to file a statement of defence.
Robinson wrote the Sept. 27, 2012 Georgia Straight-published expose, titled “John Furlong biography omits secret past in Burns Lake.” In the story, she quoted former Immaculata Catholic elementary school students who swore affidavits that accused Furlong of physically abusing them in 1969 and 1970. Robinson’s story also pointed out inconsistencies in Furlong’s Patriot Hearts memoir.
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