While I don’t usually like to focus on one publication in a single day, Roger Friedman was on a hot streak, and I thought I would respond to his must-read article on his Showbiz411.

This isn’t a minor story or oversight. As Friedman puts it:

What happened next: In 2021, Nowack and his highly respected lawyer, Paul Slansky, made a shocking discovery: the Toronto Police had claimed in evidence at his trial that they had “systematically deleted” the emails from his investigation. But in 2021, once Nowack had served his time in prison, the TPS came clean and admitted that they had never “systematically deleted” the emails at all. There were 15,731 of these emails, which Nowack was not able to use at his trial to make full answer and defense. They were there all along.

The article is worth reading, but for most Canadians, they have never heard of this case, which isn’t a surprise to me (though I am very aware of it). A couple of other quotes from Friedman are worth noting:

I’ve been listening to this case since 2013, curious about how the Canadian court system worked. Down here, we have this dream that Canada is a fairy tale, that everything is so much more lawful than in the US.

That turns out to be BS.

You should have been reading this space or my books. You would have had a much more accurate view of the sham up here in the North. But it is this remark that got most of my attention:

PS Why am I writing this? Because Canadian media is afraid to deal with anything even remotely scandalous in their government…

Again, you should have been reading my blog and my books, Roger. There is no such thing as a Canadian press: the federal government bought them years ago, and they aren’t like Scott Pelley who walked away from millions rather than compromise himself: they do know where the government buried the bodies because they hang around the halls of power, trying to curry favor and get cushy patronage appointments, but the government cuts their pay checks, and they are not going to say just how corrupt the system is up here.

They aren’t afraid; they are for sale. Just like cattle.

Government institutions are abusive by design. Every single level. If their lawyers try to nail someone during discovery and fail, those tapes and transcripts will magically disappear, too. They will trump up charges, demonize opposition, and otherwise use the counter-insurgency manual to do it.

But the press has been groomed and trained to be willing livestock who dutifully obey, and that’s why a US online entertainment publication will be more likely to report on a serious Canadian scandal before any so called prestige publication here in Canada.

But it goes even deeper: the people with the highest salaries in Canada work in the public sector. They make up the bulk of the top 2% in the country. They pull in the six and seven figure salaries, and the private sector is completely dependent on the government dole or their business and entire industry would collapse.

That’s why Canada doesn’t have whistleblowers, either.

Roger, you really should DM me and I can tell you exactly how things operate up here. Spoiler alert: it’s even worse than you think.