jbtubman@water.UUCP (Jim Tubman) (10/11/84)
Attention Saskatchewanites! Can any of you tell me when and where Colin Thatcher, the former Saskatchewan energy minister, is going to trial for the Joanne Wilson murder? It should be sometime soon, as I recall. Since leaving Saskatoon, I have not heard much about it. The trial should be rather interesting. A friend of mine read the transcripts of Thatcher's preliminary hearing and told me, "He's cooked!" Apparently they reveal that Wilson was not such a savoury person either. It will also be interesting as to whether the whole mess causes any damage to the Devine government as well. Jim Tubman University of Waterloo {ihnp4,utcsrgv}!watmath!water!jbtubman
jbtubman@water.UUCP (Jim Tubman) (10/12/84)
Wouldn't you know it...on the day when I finally give up hope that anything will be printed about the Thatcher trial and I post to the net for information, the Globe and Mail prints a fair-sized story telling me that the trial will start on Monday, Oct. 15, and will be held in Saskatoon (not North Battleford, as I had heard before). My curiousity about the political effects (if any) of the trial and the interesting scandals it may bring to the surface is still there. The Globe and Mail tells us that there will be a pack of reporters from Canada and the U.S.(!) at the trial, so there should be no problem finding out what happened. (I hope can.politics is the appropriate place to discuss this. Thatcher was a powerful politician and the son of a former Saskatchewan premier, so I chose this newsgroup.) Jim Tubman