Rick Westhead
Senior Correspondent at The Sports Network (TSN)
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1 week ago |
tsn.ca | Rick Westhead
Content advisory: This article includes graphic language and details of alleged sexual assault During separate interviews with a police investigator in late 2018, Alex Formenton and Dillon Dube shared their perspectives about what happened in a hotel room in London, Ont., the night of an alleged sexual assault in June 2018, saying that a number of their teammates stood and watched as E.M. engaged in sex acts with several different men.
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1 week ago |
tsn.ca | Rick Westhead
A U.S. District Court judge in Washington state has dismissed a class-action lawsuit that attempted to end the entry draft system in major junior hockey, citing jurisdictional issues with the case.
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ctvnews.ca | Rick Westhead
Judge rejects final attempt to have text message admitted as evidence in hockey players’ trial Published: May 26, 2025 at 11:07AM EDTA composite image of five photographs show former members of Canada's 2018 World Juniors hockey team, left to right, Alex Formenton, Callan Foote, Michael McLeod, Dillon Dube and Carter Hart as they individually arrived to court in London, Ont., Wednesday, April 30, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nicole Osborne
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tsn.ca | Rick Westhead
Content advisory: This article includes graphic language and details of alleged sexual assault LONDON, ONT.– Justice Maria Carroccia has rejected the Crown’s final attempt to have Brett Howden's June 26, 2018, text message to former teammate Taylor Raddysh admitted as evidence under the principled approach to hearsay at the sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team.
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2 weeks ago |
tsn.ca | Rick Westhead
Content advisory: This article includes graphic language and details of alleged sexual assault The judge overseeing the sexual assault trial of five former members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team ruled Friday she will not allow prosecutors to enter into evidence a 2018 text message in which one player who has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing discussed seeing the complainant in the case being slapped “so hard.” Crown attorney Meaghan Cunningham had argued with defence counsel...
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Tyler Steenbergen, a former member of Canada’s 2018 world junior team, testified Wednesday that he watched as Carter Hart and Michael McLeod received oral sex in a London hotel room in the early morning hours of June 19, 2018, from E.M., the complainant in the sexual assault
Crown attorney Meaghan Cunningham asked E.M. on Wednesday to recall the time when she was alone with McLeod in his hotel room on June 18-19, 2018, before other men began to appear. E.M. has previously testified that she can’t recall having any conversations with McLeod during
From @rwesthead: E.M. testified Wednesday at the London hockey trial that when she filed a personal injury lawsuit in 2022 against Hockey Canada and eight unnamed players, her understanding was that the players would not be publicly identified: https://t.co/Lq32i3XzYO
After nine days on the stand, E.M. has finished testifying at the hockey sexual assault trial in London, Ont. Tyler Steenbergen, a member of Canada's 2018 world junior hockey team, is now testifying. Steenbergen has not been accused of wrongdoing.