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Surprise Surprise Surprise Perhaps Hogan's lawyer will review my email and appeal if he has any money left to pay the fees.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/brunswick-news-irving-al-hogan-lawsuit-1.5344347
· CBC News· Posted: Nov 01, 2019 4:06 PM AT
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Al Hogan was fired almost five years ago as managing editor of the Moncton Times & Transcript. (CBC)
A former Brunswick News editor fired for his part in a scandal at the Moncton Times & Transcript has lost his wrongful dismissal suit against his former employer and been ordered to pay costs.
Al Hogan was fired as managing editor of the Times & Transcript in 2015 after he allegedly lied about his role in trying to change government documents related to a trip to Larry's Gulch, the government-owned fishing camp on the Restigouche River.
Hogan sought $500,000 in his wrongful dismissal suit against Brunswick News Inc., which owns all of New Brunswick's English-language daily newspapers, including the Times & Transcript.
In the court decision, issued on Oct. 29, Justice Denise LeBlanc wrote: "In my view, the deceptive nature of Mr. Hogan's conduct during an investigation and while in a senior management role where he was entrusted with and was the steward of the MT&T's reputation left BNI with no option but to terminate Mr. Hogan's employment."
Hogan's legal team countered that BNI's investigation into the matter was "either intentionally inept or negligently so."
During the trial this summer, the court heard that when a Brunswick News reporter discovered Guy's name on the lodge's guest list, obtained through a right-to-information request, Guy at first lied to Hogan and said he hadn't been there.
In an email exchange at the time, Hogan asked him why the list didn't have his real name, Thomas Guy, which wouldn't have been recognizable to the public.
"Better get Darell to change it before it gets released," Hogan told him, referring to Darell Fowlie, a senior adviser to then-premier David Alward.
Hogan deleted those references from an email he forwarded to upper management when it conducted an internal investigation of the Murray Guy matter, the court heard.
LeBlanc wrote: "The email alteration in and of itself constitutes serious misconduct by Mr. Hogan."
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After his dismissal, Hogan sued Brunswick News Inc., which owns all of New Brunswick's English-language daily newspapers, including the Moncton paper. (CBC)
She added that the summary dismissal of Hogan was justified and a "proportional response to the misconduct."
Despite Hogan's claims that BNI's internal investigation was inept, LeBlanc wrote, "the evidence does not support counsel's claim."
Hogan was 56 when he was fired in February 2015. He had asked the court to award two years' salary, which was $112,375 a year, plus the annual RRSP contribution he would have received had he continued with the company.
13 Comments
Norman Albert
This is the future we leave our kids. Money talks!!! How bad can it get?
David Amos
Norman Albert
LOL Surprise!!!! David verses Goliath? You can't win against the empire here. What they don't own out right they control. The sickening reality!!!
Al Clark
Reply to @Norman Albert: Well, his BS case made it easy for them. 112G must make it tough to remember the emails you doctored ;-)
David Amos
Terry Tibbs
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I fought the law and the law won.
Layton Bennett
Here's an idea: sell the fishing lodge.
DJ Redfern
Al Clark
Reply to @DJ Redfern: Ya, when Pete takes american andy's job from him he'll want to fly in with his personal SAR chopper for some fishin
James Risdon
I smell a tell-all book in the making here.
David Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @James Risdon: Methinks too bad so sad that the comment of your old buddy JJ Carrier went "Poof" before I could read what put your fancy knickers in a knot N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @JJ Carrier: A little Deja Vu for you
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/brunswick-news-times-transcript-editor-al-hogan-wrongful-dismissal-1.5214682
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/brunswick-news-times-transcript-editor-al-hogan-wrongful-dismissal-1.5214682
CBC News· Posted: Jul 17, 2019 5:00 PM AT
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Former Times & Transcript managing editor Al Hogan is suing Brunswick News for wrongful dismissal. (CBC)
A former Brunswick News editor who was fired after he allegedly lied about his role in trying to change government documents from the Larry's Gulch fishing lodge is seeking about $500,000 in damages, his wrongful dismissal trial heard Wednesday.
"It takes a large whack to wake up a wealthy and powerful defendant," Al Hogan's lawyer Amelie Surette told the court during closing arguments Wednesday, citing from case law.
Brunswick News Inc. (BNI) owns all of New Brunswick's major English daily newspapers, including Moncton's Times & Transcript, where Hogan served as managing editor before his dismissal in 2015.
Hogan is now suing the company for wrongful dismissal.
BNI alleges Hogan tried to cover up a 2013 trip his assistant managing editor Murray Guy took to the government's fishing lodge on invitation from NB Liquor.
Hogan's legal team contends BNI's investigation into the matter was "either intentionally inept or negligently so."
Lawyer Scott Ellsworth argued Hogan was never asked if he modified an email about Guy's trip and if so, why.
"To suggest that Mr. Hogan was somehow motivated by a sinister desire to hide that information … is just not conceivable," he said.
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Larry's Gulch lodge on the Restigouche River was the government's fishing lodge. (CBC)
Earlier in the trial, the court heard that when a Brunswick News reporter discovered Guy's name on the lodge's guest list obtained through a right-to-information request, Guy lied to Hogan and said he hadn't been there.
At the time, Hogan asked him why the list didn't have his real name, Thomas Guy, that wouldn't be recognizable to the public. Hogan told him, "better get Darell to change it before it gets released," referring to Darell Fowlie, a senior adviser to then-premier David Alward.
Hogan deleted both of those lines from the email when he forwarded it to upper management as part of an internal investigation, the court heard.
Hogan testified that at that point he thought Murray had gone to the lodge but not as a representative of the Times & Transcript and felt the list should be corrected, noted Ellsworth.
"Under no circumstance could one imagine how that type of email would be written to your peer and then 30 minutes later you would lie to your superior."
Hogan, who was 55 years old at the time and earning $112,375 a year, has been unable to find another job for the past four years.
"Mr. Hogan has suffered more than hurt feelings. He suffered public humiliation," said Surette.
He is seeking two years' salary, punitive and aggravated damages.
BNI lawyer Catherine Lahey argued Hogan "wholly and completely" breached all expectations for trustworthiness.
As BNI vice-president Jamie Irving testified Tuesday, this was a public relations crisis, she said.
Hogan had been with BNI for 18 years and in journalism for nearly 40 years. He held the most senior role at the Moncton newspaper and BNI needed to be able to rely on his judgment, she said.
His suggestion of unfairness is "absurd," said Lahey. It's difficult to understand any circumstance an employee would think it's acceptable to fabricate an email, she said.
"Let's call it what it is. [The email] was altered. And it was altered in a very deliberate and frankly, nefarious way."
Court of Queen's Bench Justice Denise LeBlanc questioned why Hogan was never directly asked if he altered the email and if so, why.
Lahey said the email itself was put in front of him and he was asked, "is this what you sent?" The notion he didn't understand what was being conveyed is completely unreasonable, she said.
LeBlanc has reserved decision until an unspecified date.
20 Comments
Commenting is now closed for this story.
David Amos
I say Hogan loses
Survey says?
Brian Robertson
Accepting substantial gifts is a breach of trust, and sufficient cause for dismissal.
So either way, take a hike.
David Amos
Reply to @Jake Devries: I hope his actions bankrupt him
JJ Carrier
That means at six years in lost wages...By my count, the former employees of BNI since 2011 should go class action against Forrest Irving...
Buddy Best
It take real intestinal virtue to go after the Irvings. we should all be so inclined. All the best to you Al. Empire too die. Class action for spraying Poison on NB forests and the people who live here. Make Dr Cleary Proud. Fight back.
David Amos
Lou Bell
If Hogan wins this suit , i can see a few people getting layoff notices to pay for it !
David Amos
David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Replying to @DavidRayAmos @FloryGoncalves and 49 others
Surprise Surprise Surprise Perhaps Hogan's lawyer will review my email and appeal if he has any money left to pay the fees.
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/11/former-moncton-newspaper-editor-loses.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/brunswick-news-irving-al-hogan-lawsuit-1.5344347
Former Moncton newspaper editor loses wrongful dismissal suit against Brunswick News
Court finds Al Hogan's actions 'deceptive,' orders him to pay costs
· CBC News· Posted: Nov 01, 2019 4:06 PM AT
Al Hogan was fired almost five years ago as managing editor of the Moncton Times & Transcript. (CBC)
A former Brunswick News editor fired for his part in a scandal at the Moncton Times & Transcript has lost his wrongful dismissal suit against his former employer and been ordered to pay costs.
Al Hogan was fired as managing editor of the Times & Transcript in 2015 after he allegedly lied about his role in trying to change government documents related to a trip to Larry's Gulch, the government-owned fishing camp on the Restigouche River.
Hogan sought $500,000 in his wrongful dismissal suit against Brunswick News Inc., which owns all of New Brunswick's English-language daily newspapers, including the Times & Transcript.
In the court decision, issued on Oct. 29, Justice Denise LeBlanc wrote: "In my view, the deceptive nature of Mr. Hogan's conduct during an investigation and while in a senior management role where he was entrusted with and was the steward of the MT&T's reputation left BNI with no option but to terminate Mr. Hogan's employment."
BNI argued Hogan tried to cover up a 2013 trip his assistant managing editor Murray Guy took to the government's fishing lodge after accepting an invitation from NB Liquor.
Hogan's legal team countered that BNI's investigation into the matter was "either intentionally inept or negligently so."
Dismissal Warranted
During the trial this summer, the court heard that when a Brunswick News reporter discovered Guy's name on the lodge's guest list, obtained through a right-to-information request, Guy at first lied to Hogan and said he hadn't been there.
In an email exchange at the time, Hogan asked him why the list didn't have his real name, Thomas Guy, which wouldn't have been recognizable to the public.
"Better get Darell to change it before it gets released," Hogan told him, referring to Darell Fowlie, a senior adviser to then-premier David Alward.
Hogan deleted those references from an email he forwarded to upper management when it conducted an internal investigation of the Murray Guy matter, the court heard.
LeBlanc wrote: "The email alteration in and of itself constitutes serious misconduct by Mr. Hogan."
After his dismissal, Hogan sued Brunswick News Inc., which owns all of New Brunswick's English-language daily newspapers, including the Moncton paper. (CBC)
She added that the summary dismissal of Hogan was justified and a "proportional response to the misconduct."
Despite Hogan's claims that BNI's internal investigation was inept, LeBlanc wrote, "the evidence does not support counsel's claim."
The judge ordered Hogan to pay costs in the amount of $10,375 to Brunswick News.
Hogan was 56 when he was fired in February 2015. He had asked the court to award two years' salary, which was $112,375 a year, plus the annual RRSP contribution he would have received had he continued with the company.
13 Comments
Norman Albert
This is the future we leave our kids. Money talks!!! How bad can it get?
David Amos
Reply to @Norman Albert: Its already worse than you think
Norman Albert
LOL Surprise!!!! David verses Goliath? You can't win against the empire here. What they don't own out right they control. The sickening reality!!!
James Risdon
Reply to @Norman Albert: Well, David did win against Goliath ...
David Amos
Reply to @James Risdon: So did I
Reply to @Norman Albert: Well, his BS case made it easy for them. 112G must make it tough to remember the emails you doctored ;-)
David Amos
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Surprise Surprise Surprise Perhaps Hogan's lawyer will review my email and appeal if he has any money left to pay the fees.Josef Blow
Reply to @David Amos: I cannot understand why you have yet to be elevated to Pope. Omnipotence, ubiquity, righteous indignation and all ...
David Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @Josef Blow: Methinks they are still bitter about me suing Cardinal Law in Beantown in 2002 N'esy Pas?
Terry Tibbs
Content disabled
I fought the law and the law won.
David Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @Terry Tibbs: Only if you let them
Terry Tibbs
Content disabled
Reply to @David Amos:
Quite funny that! I've found the trick is to avoid notice at all costs. See, I spent most of my life working for a living, most of it hard, taxing, work. When you find yourself in that situation you can't win against folks whose ONLY job is to find ways to mess you up.
Reply to @David Amos:
Quite funny that! I've found the trick is to avoid notice at all costs. See, I spent most of my life working for a living, most of it hard, taxing, work. When you find yourself in that situation you can't win against folks whose ONLY job is to find ways to mess you up.
David Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @Terry Tibbs: So why laugh at me?
Layton Bennett
Here's an idea: sell the fishing lodge.
DJ Redfern
Reply to @Layton Bennett:
Sell Larry's ? you must be kidding, it's been the source of much amusement over the years....
Sell Larry's ? you must be kidding, it's been the source of much amusement over the years....
David Amos
Reply to @DJ Redfern: Oh So True
Al Clark
Reply to @DJ Redfern: Ya, when Pete takes american andy's job from him he'll want to fly in with his personal SAR chopper for some fishin
James Risdon
I smell a tell-all book in the making here.
David Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @James Risdon: Yea right just like you and your old buddy JJ would like to tell it all but are too afraid toJJ Carrier
Content disabled Before I could read it or save it
James Risdon
Reply to @JJ Carrier: I was not fired. I was laid off as a result of a province-wide restructuring of the news bureaus which eliminated not only my job but also that of reporters in roughly half a dozen locations throughout New Brunswick.
In that restructuring, I was offered a job in Saint John at the Telegraph-Journal but had to turn it down due for a number of reasons, including the fact that my house was then in middle of major renovations and not in a condition to be readily sold.
In that restructuring, I was offered a job in Saint John at the Telegraph-Journal but had to turn it down due for a number of reasons, including the fact that my house was then in middle of major renovations and not in a condition to be readily sold.
David Amos
Content disabled
Reply to @James Risdon: Methinks too bad so sad that the comment of your old buddy JJ Carrier went "Poof" before I could read what put your fancy knickers in a knot N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Reply to @JJ Carrier: A little Deja Vu for you
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/brunswick-news-times-transcript-editor-al-hogan-wrongful-dismissal-1.5214682
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/brunswick-news-times-transcript-editor-al-hogan-wrongful-dismissal-1.5214682
Ex-Brunswick News editor seeks $500K for alleged wrongful dismissal
Lawyers argue investigation into allegations of altered email was 'intentionally inept or negligently so'
CBC News· Posted: Jul 17, 2019 5:00 PM AT
Former Times & Transcript managing editor Al Hogan is suing Brunswick News for wrongful dismissal. (CBC)
A former Brunswick News editor who was fired after he allegedly lied about his role in trying to change government documents from the Larry's Gulch fishing lodge is seeking about $500,000 in damages, his wrongful dismissal trial heard Wednesday.
"It takes a large whack to wake up a wealthy and powerful defendant," Al Hogan's lawyer Amelie Surette told the court during closing arguments Wednesday, citing from case law.
Brunswick News Inc. (BNI) owns all of New Brunswick's major English daily newspapers, including Moncton's Times & Transcript, where Hogan served as managing editor before his dismissal in 2015.
Hogan is now suing the company for wrongful dismissal.
BNI alleges Hogan tried to cover up a 2013 trip his assistant managing editor Murray Guy took to the government's fishing lodge on invitation from NB Liquor.
Hogan's legal team contends BNI's investigation into the matter was "either intentionally inept or negligently so."
Lawyer Scott Ellsworth argued Hogan was never asked if he modified an email about Guy's trip and if so, why.
"To suggest that Mr. Hogan was somehow motivated by a sinister desire to hide that information … is just not conceivable," he said.
Larry's Gulch lodge on the Restigouche River was the government's fishing lodge. (CBC)
Earlier in the trial, the court heard that when a Brunswick News reporter discovered Guy's name on the lodge's guest list obtained through a right-to-information request, Guy lied to Hogan and said he hadn't been there.
At the time, Hogan asked him why the list didn't have his real name, Thomas Guy, that wouldn't be recognizable to the public. Hogan told him, "better get Darell to change it before it gets released," referring to Darell Fowlie, a senior adviser to then-premier David Alward.
Hogan deleted both of those lines from the email when he forwarded it to upper management as part of an internal investigation, the court heard.
Hogan testified that at that point he thought Murray had gone to the lodge but not as a representative of the Times & Transcript and felt the list should be corrected, noted Ellsworth.
Mr. Hogan has suffered more than hurt feelings. He suffered public humiliation.
- Amelie Surrette, lawyer for Al Hogan"That's clearly what those emails are addressing," he argued.
"Under no circumstance could one imagine how that type of email would be written to your peer and then 30 minutes later you would lie to your superior."
Hogan, who was 55 years old at the time and earning $112,375 a year, has been unable to find another job for the past four years.
"Mr. Hogan has suffered more than hurt feelings. He suffered public humiliation," said Surette.
He is seeking two years' salary, punitive and aggravated damages.
Email was altered in 'nefarious way'
BNI lawyer Catherine Lahey argued Hogan "wholly and completely" breached all expectations for trustworthiness.
As BNI vice-president Jamie Irving testified Tuesday, this was a public relations crisis, she said.
Hogan had been with BNI for 18 years and in journalism for nearly 40 years. He held the most senior role at the Moncton newspaper and BNI needed to be able to rely on his judgment, she said.
His suggestion of unfairness is "absurd," said Lahey. It's difficult to understand any circumstance an employee would think it's acceptable to fabricate an email, she said.
"Let's call it what it is. [The email] was altered. And it was altered in a very deliberate and frankly, nefarious way."
Court of Queen's Bench Justice Denise LeBlanc questioned why Hogan was never directly asked if he altered the email and if so, why.
Lahey said the email itself was put in front of him and he was asked, "is this what you sent?" The notion he didn't understand what was being conveyed is completely unreasonable, she said.
LeBlanc has reserved decision until an unspecified date.
With files from Gabrielle Fahmy
20 Comments
Commenting is now closed for this story.
David Amos
I say Hogan loses
Survey says?
Brian Robertson
Accepting substantial gifts is a breach of trust, and sufficient cause for dismissal.
So either way, take a hike.
Michel Jones
Reply to @Brian Robertson: And he lied to his boss about it after the investigation started... This guy has a long way to go yet...
Jake Devries
Reply to @Michel Jones: I hope Mr Hogan has deep pockets...when he has to pay ALL legal fees for both sides...
David Amos
Reply to @Jake Devries: I hope his actions bankrupt him
JJ Carrier
That means at six years in lost wages...By my count, the former employees of BNI since 2011 should go class action against Forrest Irving...
James Risdon
Reply to @JJ Carrier: Who is Forrest Irving?
James Risdon
Reply to @Franz Pökler: When you have the integrity to use your real name to address me, I'll take you seriously. Until then, your snide remarks are not worth my time. And neither are you.
David Amos
Reply to @James Risdon: What am I chopped liver?
Buddy Best
It take real intestinal virtue to go after the Irvings. we should all be so inclined. All the best to you Al. Empire too die. Class action for spraying Poison on NB forests and the people who live here. Make Dr Cleary Proud. Fight back.
David Amos
Reply to @Buddy Best: Yea Right
Lou Bell
If Hogan wins this suit , i can see a few people getting layoff notices to pay for it !
David Amos
Reply to @Lou Bell: Methinks with so many troughs to maintain cooks can always count on keeping their government jobs N'esy Pas?