Today in History

Oct 27 In 2010, former junior hockey coach and convicted sex offender Graham James surrendered to police at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport and was whisked to Winnipeg, where he had been wanted on nine charges on the sexual assault of three victims, including former NHL star Theo Fleury, who has published a tell-all autobiography alleging that James abused him starting when he was 14 years old. (He pleaded guilty and was initially given a two-year sentence, but that was increased to five on the Crown’s appeal.) In 2023, the CBC reported legendary musician Buffy Sainte-Marie’s birth certificate, marriage certificate and a U.S. census all contradict her claim that she is Indigenous. The network said the birth certificate lists Sainte-Marie as being born in 1941 in Stoneham, Mass., and states the…

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