Musings —10.17.2020 08:35 AM
—The latest from Mark Bourrie: divorce pleadings? Seriously?
He is apparently interested in publishing the pleadings from my divorce, as you can see in the screenshot taken from his “Warren Kinsella Sux” website. His post:
Couldn’t help myself to look on the site (it has a catchy URL) and the post has already been taken down.
Certainly not an endorsement, but: http://www.canada.uottawa.ca/eng/faculty/professors.html
Jeeze man, this guy does appear to be pathological to me. Publishing pleadings from your divorce?! Why?
I worry he may become violent. Hopefully the courts will see what maybe his OCD.
My prediction is, he will be the one in jail.
I don’t want him to go to jail. I just want him to leave me and mine alone. After ten years, enough is enough.
Ya man, but 10 years! And it seems he is escalating. Be carefull, seriously.
I found Mark Bourrie listed here (Carleton University)
http://www2.carleton.ca/history/people/mark-bourrie
Mark Bourrie holds a PhD in History and has been a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery since 1994. He previously taught media history and journalism at Concordia University. Mark is the author of eleven books. The latest are The Fog of War: Censorship of Canada’s Media in The Second World War, which reached No. 6 on Maclean’s magazine’s best-seller list in 2011, and Fighting Words: Canada’s Best War Reporting, published last fall. He now has a contract with Toronto publisher Thomas Allen and Sons for a book on Stephen Harper’s media and information control systems, which will be published in 2014. Mar has won several major media awards, including a National Magazine Award, and has been nominated for several others. His academic writing has been published in Canada and The Second World War: Essays in Honour of Terry Copp (Geoff Hayes et al, eds, Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2012), the Global Media Journal and the Canadian Journal of Communication. His journalism has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the National Post, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, and most of the country’s major newspapers and several magazines including Toronto Life and Ottawa magazine. He is also a consultant on propaganda and censorship at the Canadian Forces Public Affairs School.
11 Books…really….and most are limited runs.
The latest one you can buy for 11 bucks on ebay:
http://www.ebay.ca/ctg/Fog-War-Censorship-Canadas-Media-World-War-Two-Mark-Bourrie-2012-Hardcover-/109394164
Flim Flam is going for $8.99 on Kobo
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-ca/books/Title/R9W17p5GI024NtQwDfHP7Q
and The Parliament Buildings by Mark Bourrie and Malak (1999, Paperback) : Malak, Mark Bourrie (1999) is going for $1.99
http://www.ebay.com/ctg/Parliament-Buildings-Mark-Bourrie-and-Malak-1999-Paperback-/2956683
It gives a whole new meaning to vanity press….
The whole affair sounds like he’s messaging for “reputational gain” :
http://www.ipsos.com/public-affairs/sites/www.ipsos.com.public-affairs/files/Communicating_for_Reputational_Gain-INTL-POV.pdf
we just had a nut…in my community who was stalking some of us, harassing us online, and basically doing insane things. Turns out yes…he is insane and he escalated to the pt of beating up his bf, stealing dogs and finally getting taken down on the ferry…very very publically. This guy…his behaviour got worse over ayear…the crack problem didnt help. But in all seriousness….a person willing to harass you for ten years…(even if he feels justified…thru his insane thoughts)…he is a guy on the edge. I think you should be able have him carted away criminal harassment…sending crap toyour home, bringing up lies about your family life…creating mayhem, this goes well beyond professional jealousy or competition. This guy needs serious help> of course you have dealt with him in the courts before and it didnt seem to help.
I am sure you know all this…being that your are a lawyer…but is there anyway you could take a different tack…and try to reach out to his wife…or friends and suggest he get himself into a mental health program.
im sure the last thing you feel is compassion for this asshat…but it might be what stops the behaviours.
Kind of unrelated, but what up with Ezra, these days? Have you guys formed a truce?
Basically.