Morning Update: Appeals court critical of ruling made by judge now on Supreme Court


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The Morning Update newsletter will pause on Friday for Easter, but will return on Monday. Good morning, The Ontario Court of Appeal has strongly criticized a ruling made by the newest member of the Supreme Court when she was a judge on a lower court. Two years ago, Justice Michelle O’Bonsawin threw out an acquittal and ordered a new trial in an alleged sexual assault saying in her ruling that the judge who had originally decided the case used “myth-based reasoning” – specifically, for saying that sexual assault is something that happens in private, not public. But a panel of...