The 3-0 ruling from the Ontario Court of Appeal comes in a case in which Bondfield Construction Co. Ltd. sued The Globe for defamation over five articles in a seven-part series in 2015 and 2016
. The series explored links between that company’s president and a senior executive at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. The hospital had awarded a $300-million contract to the company for the building of a critical care facility.A lower-court judge had dismissed the defamation suit last year, citing the Protection of Public Participation Act, also known as an anti-SLAPP law, one of several in North America protecting the news media and individuals from lawsuits intended to silence them.
“There is no history of Bondfield using litigation or the threat of litigation to silence critics. There is no financial or other power imbalance that favours Bondfield over The Globe. There is no suggestion of any punitive or retributory purpose motivating Bondfield’s lawsuit.
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