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How did a popular Calgary teacher get away with abuse over decades?
FromThe Big Story
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Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Dec 13, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
You've heard parts of this story in every report of a teacher preying on a vulnerable student. What makes this case different is the sheer scale of the abuse. Nearly twenty years, dozens of students ... how did it go on for so long?Michael Gregory could have been stopped before most of this happened. But he wasn't. What can this horrific case teach us about protecting children from systematic abuse in the school system?GUEST: Omar Mouallem, writer, editor, and filmmaker. (You can read Omar's piece in Maclean's right here.)
Released:
Dec 13, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
A Cree teen's death in a B.C. group home, and what it reveals about the system: His name was Traevon Desjarlais-Chalifoux. He was 17. And in the wake of his death, there are so many questions and so few answers. Will the system admit any responsibility? Will the government that oversees it make any changes? How big is this long-ignored systemic problem, and can we fix it before it costs another young Indigenous person their life? GUEST: Nancy Macdonald, The Globe and Mail by The Big Story