Sam Theagle, Fringe Worthy

For people in the comments who don't understand the current dynamics of journalism. I broke the story of Ewert's return to jail on Friday-a full day before CBC confirmed that he was back in jail. My posts alone about Ewert across social media platforms had over 875,000 views. As one indie reporter. It's 2026-independent journalists ARE the news. There is still some confusion in the comments about why a geriatric violent offender was admitted into McGill Law School and whether or not Ewert had served his time. Ewert is serving a life sentence. He was sentenced back when Canada still operated under the rule of law. Ewert was, therefore, only released on day parole due to an activist judge who overturned the parole board's ruling that he was too dangerous to release. The parole board did their job in attempting to keep him in jail. A liberal-appointed activist judge overturned their decision, citing Gladue in her ruling. Due to many parole condition violations, her idiotic decision to grant him parole has now been suspended, at least for the time-being. To my knowledge, he can still appeal again in the future. Criminal background checks are not typically part of Canadian universities’ admissions processes. It's unclear at what point McGill knew Ewert was a violent convicted criminal because they cite privacy concerns as to why they won't offer a fulsome accounting of what happened. However, Ewert's lawyer Nora Demnati had stated that McGill was, "Fully aware of his history and his status." His lawyer elaborated that his going to law school was a well-established plan that was discussed with relevant parties as part of his rehabilitation plan. Students were not informed of his record by the university (again, privacy constraints were cited.) Some of the students responded with a petition to have him reinstated in class. Other students responded with a petition against his return to class. Background checks are typical for regulated professions. The law society has a "good character" requirement for licensing, but regulatory regimes are ideologically-captured, so it's impossible to know whether or not the law society would have excluded him or welcomed the opportunity for "Restorative justice." I am highly sceptical as to what Ewert's LSAT scores and pre-university grades were like. Law school is highly competitive and giving a place to an undeserving convicted violent criminal who would already be passed retirement age once he began to practise (if he even finished and passed the bar), means that a young, deserving person missed out on a lifetime opportunity. It is, of course, absolutely ridiculous and wrong that the Canadian taxpayer, who subsidizes tuition costs for law students, would have to contribute even one red cent to the educational costs of a geriatric who is a convicted child rapist and torturer, as well as a convicted killer. But this is where we are at in Canada, thanks to ideological capture of our institutions and no political will to overturn previous terrible decisions by the Liberals.