Five former junior hockey players are on trial for sexual assault, and the reporting is full of graphic details. Laura Robinson takes us inside the courtroom and explains what’s really happening. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor)

Guest: Laura Robinson

Further reading: 

• How a judge-alone trial may impact the Hockey Canada sexual assault case | CBC News 
• What the jury didn’t hear — and other things we can now report — in world junior hockey sex assault trial | CBC News
• Hockey Canada sex-assault trial won’t consider 2022 statements told to investigator – The Globe and Mail
• Rick Westhead: Crown accuses Brett Howden of inconsistencies in testimony at London hockey trial | TSN 
• A Path to Fewer Indigenous People in Prisons | The Tyee 
• Photos of Toronto Sun ‘Sunshine Girls’ are being rerun again and again — critics call it the ‘death rattle’ for tabloid news – Toronto Today 

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