Ex-Olympics CEO John Furlong faces heated cross-examination

CANADA
The Globe and Mail

The Canadian Press

Former Vancouver Olympics CEO John Furlong’s temper boiled over while he was under cross-examination at the civil court trial where a journalist accuses him of defamation

Furlong accused Bryan Baynham — the lawyer for journalist Laura Robinson — of sullying his deceased wife’s reputation.

Robinson is suing Furlong for public comments he made after she wrote a 2012 article that included allegations he physically abused First Nations students at a Roman Catholic School in northern B.C. some 45 years ago.

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