Kathryn Borel
| Kathryn Borel | |
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| Born |
June 23, 1979 Toronto, Ontario |
| Occupation | Canadian writer, editor and radio producer |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | King's College |
| Website | |
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Kathryn Borel, sometimes credited as Kathryn Borel Jr. (born June 23, 1979 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian writer, editor, and radio producer.[1]
Career
She studied journalism at King's College, a liberal arts university in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, offering mainly undergraduate programs.[2] Borel has written and broadcast for many local and national programs on CBC Radio One, including Metro Morning, GO!, Q, Day 6 and As It Happens.[3] Her print journalism work includes a past column for the National Post called "Indignities", and a food column called "Column Dine" for Eye Weekly. She has written for The Guardian, The Times of London, The Believer, The Globe and Mail, EnRoute, the Toronto Star, The Walrus, Salon.com, and Nerve.com. She has put out two anthologies of essays, Parents Were Awesome and The Edible City.
Memoir
She was nominated for the Stephen Leacock Award for her 2009 memoir, Corked.[4] Jay McInerney, New York Times bestselling author of ‘How It Ended’ stated that "....Borel has written a funny, quirky, bittersweet memoir full of wry wisdom on the subjects of wine, grief, memory, France and family." It was "chosen as one of the best books of 2009 by The National Post, Quill & Quire and Eye Weekly. The Globe and Mail review states that the memoir "...recalls two darkly humorous weeks in a tumultuous father-daughter relationship, replete with the author's mutually escalating insecurities: insecurity about paternal love and the inevitability of death, lover love, wine love, wine speak and insecurity about insecurity."[5]
Current activities
She writes for the television series American Dad!. She is also an editor at The Believer.
Jian Ghomeshi controversy
On December 2, 2014, Borel published an op-ed in The Guardian, where she described being sexually harassed by former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi, while on the job.[6] She described going to her union, the Canadian Media Guild, to protest his harassment of her; she states that the union representative and the executive producer at Q "did nothing." Others have come forward claiming sexual harassment by Ghomeshi. The CBC fired Ghomeshi in October 2014 after reviewing "graphic evidence" that he had caused physical injury to a woman.[7] In April 2015, an independent inquiry concluded that CBC management mishandled—and in some cases condoned—Ghomeshi's abusive behavior.
Ghomeshi was charged with four counts of sexual assault, and one count of choking, in relation to three complainants and his first trial began on February 1, 2016.[8] The trial lasted eight days.[9] On 24 March 2016, the judge delivered the verdict. Ghomeshi was acquitted of all charges, on the basis that there was insufficient evidence to establish proof beyond a reasonable doubt.[10] The inconsistency and "outright deception" of the witness' testimony had irreparably weakened the prosecution's case.[10] One additional charge of sexual assault is expected to be addressed at a trial in June 2016.[11]
Bibliography
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Essays and reporting
- Borel, Kathryn (Mar–Apr 2013). "Martha Plimpton". The Believer 11 (3): 83–89.
References
- ↑ Corey Mintz (2010-02-06). "The ultimate compliment is cooking meat to order". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 2014-12-02.
However, after I spent a few months of writing free on a local blog, Borel called me with a huge opportunity. She'd signed a book deal (for Corked: A Memoir, the book that just came out, the book that I am, at this moment, shamelessly plugging in this column) and was taking a leave from both her jobs to write it.
- ↑ Roper, Henry. "Aspects of the History of a Loyalist College: King's College, Windsor, and Nova Scotian Higher Education in the Nineteenth Century." Anglican and Episcopal History 61 (1991).
- ↑ Borel, Kathryn (2009). Corked. Wiley & Sons Canada. ISBN 978-0-470-15390-1.
- ↑ "Five in running for Leacock". Vancouver Sun, April 2, 2010.
- ↑ Kate Parsons (2009-10-30). "A father-daughter-wine tale". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
The outcome is a compelling and often uncomfortable blend of love, resentment, laughter and rage. Put simply, Borel's powers of perception - of her notoriously difficult father and of her own shortcomings - are acute and unrelenting.
- ↑ Kathryn Borel (2014-12-02). "Jian Ghomeshi harassed me on the job. Why did our radio station look the other way?". The Guardian. Retrieved 2014-12-02.
- ↑ Shum, David (October 2, 2015). "Jian Ghomeshi headed back to court in 2016 as pre-trial hearings end". Global News.
- ↑ Gollom, Mark (February 1, 2016). "Jian Ghomeshi was 'punching me in the head, multiple times,' witness says". CBC News. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
- ↑ Houpt, Simon; White, Patrick. "The Jian Ghomeshi trial: What you missed in court". Globe and Mail. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
- 1 2 Miller, Adam (March 24, 2016). "Jian Ghomeshi trial: Former CBC radio host found not guilty of all charges". Global News. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
- ↑ Gollom, Mark (March 24, 2016). "Jian Ghomeshi found not guilty on choking and all sex assault charges". CBC News. Retrieved March 25, 2016.