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Harassed for noise: Klassen
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Witness tampering: Dueck
Connect the dots:
This emerged from a longer
sermonette by the same
name. Sheila's blog
See the timeline
to this case to see the bigger puzzle
- summer 1998: the website is
launched
- just before Christmas, 1998:
StarPhoenix reporter Dan Zakreski contacts us to let us know
he is working on an updated story (the SP had not reported anything
since our defamation trials).
- January, 1999: Zakreski lets
us know he had seen Michael's name on a docket at Provincial
court. We confirm that Michael is in the Correctional.
- March 8, 1999: Ed Holgate
goes to the Saskatchewan Correctional facility and
secures an affidavit from Michael where he admits that no
one in the Klassen/Kvello families abused him. We provide The
StarPhoenix with a copy.
- In the course of researching
his story, Zakreski asks the Saskatoon Police about Michael's
recantation.
- May 5, 1999 Sgt. Elias asks
Michael to attend at Social Services where he takes another statement
from Michael claiming Michael was coerced by Ed Holgate to make
his recantation, that his childhood disclosure tapes to Dueck
and Bunko-Ruys were true and that he would like to lodge a complaint
against injusticebusters' website.
- June 19, 1999: The StarPhoenix
feature is published.
- June 24, 1999: Michael
assaults Michelle.
- Spring, 2000: Steele and Michael
first speak on the phone. Steele tells Michael that she will
be happy to talk to him any time but that he must not lie to
her.
- Summer, 2000: Michael goes
to the correctional after pleading guilty to assaulting Michelle.
He begins phoning Steele daily.
- Michael tells Steele that
his friends have told him that The StarPhoenix article
is damaging to him because it portrays him as a sex abuser. He
admits he was angry at Michelle for talking to The StarPhoenix
and that he was concerned he would not be able to make any civil
claim if he did not keep his stories secret. Steele assures Michael
that since he was a child at the time, it was not his fault but
the fault of adults who did not challenge his stories at the
time.
- Michael agrees to speak to
the fifth estate. After he gives the interview, he becomes
fearful of reprisals inside the prison if the show is aired.
the fifth estate agrees to postpone airing until Michael
is released at the end of November. Since they have more time
they film Michael meeting Richard Klassen inside the institution.
In this meeting, Michael acknowledges to the world that he told
lies about the Klassens and Kvellos, apologizes directly to Richard
Klassen and indicates his desire to apologize to everyone who
was hurt by his stories.
- January, 2001: The fifth
estate updates the story and Kathy comes forward. Michael
is reunited with his sisters and although there are sibling flare-ups
among them, all three remain firm in their statements that the
stories they told to Dueck and Bunko-Ruys were not true. His
sisters are not sexually threatened by Michael because he is
gay.
Rick Klassen
still standing. Pretrial conferences in May will prepare September
trial. New
Justice Minister Eric Cline has inherited a badly corrupted portfolio
 StarPhoenix
editorial: Privilege
ruling blow to justice | Dueck succeeded in pressing his bad
faith block to exculpatory evidence | a precedent from the
Stasi | Holgate's
motions on Feb. 19 | Matt Miazga | Terry Hinz | The
$10M+ lawsuit | StarPhoenix
report from July, 1991
Let's all
get really familiar with the landmark case of Jason Dix who
won $200,000 in punitive damages against a malicious prosecutor
| Axworthy's
new job: did he buy it? | Thomas
Sophonow accepts $2.3M settlement | Material
and links previously on this page are here
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Winnipeg
Chief writes to Injusticebusters in an effort to shut us down on exposing witness
tampering by his cop Schinkel
individual
injustice stories |
Index to Saskatoon
Police stories
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 Truth can never be
told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd. William Blake, The Proverbs of Hell
Truth suppress'd, whether
by courts or crooks, will find an avenue to be told. Sheila Steele, injusticebusters.com
If you hold the mouth
of Truth, It will burst out its rib-cage. Somali proverb
Publisher : Sheila
Steele
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- Why you should dump your preliminary hearing (written July 1998 and still valid)
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- Sermonette:
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Naked Truth -- (You
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Another target
of Dueck's malice: : Wilf Hathway
Our activism
contributed greatly to the good vibes which happened around the civil
trial.
Index
to the stories on this website
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Index to Saskatoon Police stories
This is a pretty good scrapbook
for the 1998-2002 period.
Inquiry into the malicious prosecution of David
Milgaard untanling 36 years of Saskatchewan police and Crown
misconduct: : Opening day 1 | 2
| 3 | 4
| 5 | 6
| 7 |
- Stephen Williams:
Canadian writer subject to Stasi-like treatment by Canadian police
- Terry
Arnold: : Snitch a
suicide?
- RCMP
scenario stings: Brian
Hutchinson starts digging
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