Victim-blaming and woman-shaming claim another victim

[Posteritatis]

97. 140-year-old still-independent papers Get Things Done.

They're currently dragging the province, kicking and screaming, into a bunch of criminal and civil inquiries into a recently-closed foster home that had a lot of, well, the nightmarish abuse problems a lot of those tended to have in the past.

They got fed up with the stonewalling and spent an entire week devoting most of their issues to calling out surviving staff at the home by name, describing crimes in significant detail, taking statements from victims corroborating it, etc. They even dropped the "alleged" term that most journalists use in a lot of the claims, and outright dared the accused to try a defamation suit, because they were confident that it would end up with the newspaper vindicated and the abusers in chains.

About once every couple of years something infuriates them enough that they do something along those lines, but it was by far the most spectacular one I've ever seen from them. If they get worked up over this story at all, heads are going to roll in the local school boards, and probably among the RCMP and provincial government, too.