Yearly Archives: 2008

New Year’s Eve.  Imagine!  Tomorrow is the first day of the year 2009.  And April 2009 is four full years since the inquiry was commissioned!  No matter.  Here we are.  Nineteen days of testimony left.  I thought it was 18, … Continue reading →

I will pause amidst the delightful chaos of my Christmas Eve preparations to send my deepest wishes for a Merry Christmas to all.  I didn’t get my Christmas cards out this year so will send my wishes this way. – … Continue reading →

I didn’t dare came near the website over the past few days.  I really had to get things done and if I dared sit down at the keyboard I could be hours.  So I exercised restraint.  Off I went to … Continue reading →

Hearts and flowers, and huggy-bear-kissy face at every turn in the last hour. There were cudos to Cornwall Crown Murray MacDonald from Peter Chisholm, Children’s Aid Society. But the grand-daddy of praise that was heaped upon Murray’s shoulders came from … Continue reading →

Murray MacDonald is testifying. Turns out he and the bunch who were presumably “investigating” and/or discussing David Silmser’s allegations against Father Charles MacDonald had more or less concluded that Dave had a consensual homosexual encounter with Father Charles MacDonald. Consensual?  … Continue reading →

Hearings for the day wrapped up about 5:50 pm.  Helen Daley (Citizens for Community Renewal) had finished her cross-examination. An earlier decision to run to 6 pm today was put on hold.  Hearings resume at 0930 hours (9:30 am) tomorrow … Continue reading →

Hearings resume at 0930 hours (9:30 am) this morning, Thursday, 18 December 2008.  Cornwall Crown attorney Murray MacDonald will return to continue his testimony. Yesterday’s transcript is posted.  There is much in there which is worthy of note, both from … Continue reading →

 I want to cry.  I want to gag.  This is sickening. Was anyone out there watching Cornwall Crown attorney Murray MacDonald’s testimony?  I can not believe my ears.  This man has just been promoted?  He’s going to be regional Crown … Continue reading →

3 pm, Wednesday, 17 December 2008.  That’s Cornwall Crown attorney Murray MacDonald on the stand now.  It was supposed to be Don Johnson but looks like things changed. Sylvia