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From here on, you have to read the story to believe it, and I urge you to do so. After reading it, I believe that like me, you will feel indebted to tenacious Brad Cran for the more than two years of self-initiated sleuthing he dedicated to producing this comprehensive report.

After reading it, I believe that like me, you will feel indebted to tenacious Brad Cran … (for) producing this comprehensive report

With no regard for the human life unravelling through their machinations, Rooney and other women involved in Galloway’s persecution displayed a chilling, implacable demand for a #MeToo “harvest” scapegoat. They attacked Galloway then — and some continue to attack today — like pit bulls that, driven by genetically encoded impulses to latch on to prey, literally can’t let go. The only individual officially connected to UBC’s investigation who comes off with dignity in this saga is retired B.C. Supreme Court Justice Mary Ellen Boyd. Boyd conducted a fact-finding mission with complete objectivity, concluding that Galloway’s and MC’s relations constituted what Galloway said they were — a bilaterally adulterous, but consensual affair.

And what of Steven Galloway today? He’s in a bad place. Cran writes: “For over two and a half years, Galloway has been vilified, threatened, and driven to the edge of both bankruptcy and suicide.”

For over two and a half years, Galloway has been vilified, threatened, and driven to the edge of both bankruptcy and suicide Brad Cran

As Jonathan Kay noted to me: “We have an alphabet soup of well-funded organizations in this country that throw lavish fundraisers at Toronto hotels and recite self-congratulatory mantras about their supposedly holy mission to protect writers, and get at the truth. But when one of Canada’s greatest authors came under vicious attack on the basis of allegations that, even from the beginning, looked to be made up, these literary and academic grandees mostly either stared at their shoes or got in line with the inquisition.”