CANADA
Ladysmith Chronicle
By The Canadian Press
VANCOUVER – A freelance journalist says she exchanged scores of emails with John Furlong’s lawyer in the spring of 2012 but received no answers to her questions about Furlong’s past in Burns Lake, B.C.
Laura Robinson is suing the former Vancouver Olympics CEO for defamation over public comments Furlong made after she published an article alleging he abused students while teaching at a B.C. residential school over four decades ago.
She told the civil trial that Furlong’s lawyer, Marvin Storrow, issued a flat denial of the allegations but didn’t answer questions and instead demanded all the information she had collected on Furlong’s past.
Robinson says she eventually sent Storrow six of eight sworn affidavits from former students alleging abuse.
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