What Was Left Unsaid in the Hockey Canada Trial | The Walrus

Testimony has focused on a single night in 2018. But the toxic culture that shaped it runs much deeper

Tima Miroshnichenko, Pexels / Kiwihug, Unsplash / Ana Luisa O.J. This story contains details about sexual assault allegations that some readers may find disturbing. “O ne of these days , you’ll write a nice story about these boys,” Daniel Brown says to the group of reporters inside a London courthouse one morning this past May. “It’ll come.” He is the criminal defence lawyer for one of the aforementioned boys. It is day ten of the so-called junior hockey trial, where the five accused are charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a London, Ontario, hotel room in June 2018, following a night o

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