On the move!
Agh! You’re still here? My new site and weblog, ianking.ca is now up and running; new posts are building up over there, never to be mirrored here. Go! What are you waiting for? All the stuff worth keeping has been migrated over to the new server, and I don’t anticipate making any more posts here.
Bloggers and webmasters: Update your links! Simply replace vancouverscrum.blogspot.com with www.ianking.ca in your blogrolls or bookmarks to point to the new site. Old posts will remain on this server for as long as the people at Blogger/Google allow them to remain; unfortunately, I’m not going to bother to come up with any way of converting permalinks on this blog to their corresponding posts on the new site. Yes, I plead laziness. I also realize the irony of switching away from Blogger just it starts to add features that the demanding blog nerds insist upon.
Thanks for reading and linking, and see you over at ianking.ca!
—Ian King, December 13, 2004
Thursday, November 21, 2002
Media whore extraordinaire Rachel Marsden is allegedly back in the stalking and harassment game. Her latest alleged target is a 52-year-old man (name censored due to publication ban), a communications consultant and former Vancouver radio personality with whom she had had what Vancouver police describe as an "informal" relationship. According to police, the relationship between Marsden and Morgan had ended earlier this year.
Vancouver Police spokesperson Constable Sarah Bloor said that Marsden had been sending Morgan "e-mails and phone messages of a harassing nature" from early October to early November.
Rachel Marsden spent last night in jail after being arrested by Vancouver police. She was granted bail when she appeared in court earlier this morning. Her bail conditions include an order that she have no contact with the alleged victim and that she must not speak to the media. For somene who has tried to keep in the spotlight for the past several years, that last condition must be rather a tough one for her. According to the police department, the ban on contact with the media is justified in order to keep her from torturing her alleged victim over and over again.
Marsden first gained public attention in 1997 when she alleged that Simon Fraser University swim coach Liam Donnelly had been sexually harassing her. Donnelly was brought before the university's secret harassment tribunal and summarily fired.
Donnelly, however, fought back against the charges in public. He responded with evidence that it had been Marsden who was stalking him and sending him revealing photos of herself by e-mail. Eventually, Donnelly was reinstated to his position as SFU swim coach, and financially compensated for his trouble. The incident led to the resignation of the university's then-president, John Stubbs, over the university's harassment procedures, which were seen as being neither transparent nor fair towards the accused.
SFU criminology professor Neil Boyd also alleged that Marsden was stalking him in 1999. Marsden was a student at the B.C. Institute of Technology's broadcasting school at the time.
Since that time, Marsden has worked in the media in various capacities, including political commentator. The self-described "future Barbara Amiel" earned herself a reputation as a fiercely conservative pundit and her work appeared on several right-wing web sites.
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