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Sandy Kovacs is a leading personal injury lawyer in Vancouver and an adjunct professor teaching Law 435: Personal Injury Law at the UBC Allard School of Law. Ms. Kovacs achieved what is considered the largest personal injury judgment in the history of the province for a severely brain-injured plaintiff, in Uy v. Dhillon, 2020 BCSC 1302 ($9.1m), and she achieved a record punitive damages award against a Roman Catholic Diocese in a historical sexual abuse and exploitation claim, the first involving an adult victim in Canada, in Anderson v. Molon, 2020 BCSC 1247. She was invited by the Outrage Canada Board to be their keynote speaker at their September 28, 2024 inaugural AGM. 

From Amazaon.ca:  "In the Closet of the Vatican is a fascinating description and evaluation of financial, sexual and political misconduct throughout the Catholic Church at a time when new revelations are being uncovered each and every week. This audiobook explores the underlying causes and includes interviews with numerous Cardinals and other individuals, some of whom cannot be named.  

Martel reveals financial scandals in the Vatican bank; political collusion with unsavoury regimes, including Castro's Cuba and Pinochet's Chile; sexual abuse and hypocrisy over homosexuality. In this explosive account, Martel goes to the heart of corruption in the Catholic Church and inside the Vatican itself.

Martel is a researcher and writer. He has a PhD in social sciences and four master's degrees in law, political science, philosophy, and social science (University La Sorbonne). He has been visiting scholar at Harvard University and taught at Sciences-Po Paris and at the HEC's Business School MBA in Paris." Photo credit:  Amazon.ca

Last May, investigative journalist Connie Walker came upon a story about her late father she’d never heard before. One night back in the late 1970s while he was working as an officer in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, he pulled over a suspected drunk driver. He walked up to the vehicle and came face-to-face with a ghost from his past—a residential school priest. What happened on the road that night set in motion an investigation that would send Connie deep into her own past, trying to uncover the secrets of her family and the legacy of trauma passed down through the generations.

In Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s, Connie unearths how her family’s story fits into one of Canada’s darkest chapters: the residential school system.

Key art created with Catherine Blackburn and Jose Romussi. Photo PR1973.0248/73 appears courtesy of the Provincial Archives of Alberta.

Michael Enright interviews Michael Higgins, distinguished professor of Catholic thought at Sacred Heart University Fairfield, Connecticut in a Sept. 7, 2018 Sunday Edition podcast titled “What does Pope Francis need to do to restore the church’s moral authority?”  Professor Higgins speaks of clericalism as the root of the issue of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. 

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Listen to an interview with Evelyn Korkmaz who attended St. Anne’s residential school in Fort Albany, Ont. She states in the CBC podcast Now or Never:  “What I really want is for the archives to open. To show how widespread this abuse is all over the world. And for these people to be removed so they will not abuse again.” 

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Michael Enright facilitates a discussion panel about the movie Fall in the January 30, 2015 podcast of the Sunday Edition.

Hozier speakes with Tom Powers on CBC's Q on the legacy of Take Me to Church as a rallying cry for activists around the world.

Six men who were sexually abused by Catholic clergy as boys become a makeshift family and find empowerment by creating films inspired by their trauma. Now playing on Netflix. 

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Watch the documentary Prey from TVO , a film that follows one survivor and his lawyer as they pursue justice through a public trial in the hopes of forcing the dark and hidden story of clergy sexual abuse to light.

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When the Boston Globe’s team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston’s religious, legal, and government establishment. Watch on Amazon Prime. 

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