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The Province
3 days ago
- The Province
B.C. woman in TikTok posts seeks IP address info from Telus in court
B.C. woman in TikTok posts seeks IP address info from Telus in court The Whitecaps are playing their biggest game since 1979. Shout it from the rooftops This former B.C. Lions quarterback is ready to lead Canada to Olympic flag football glory Canadian man who disappeared after going swimming in Mexico washes up dead B.C. woman in TikTok posts seeks IP address info from Telus in court First unsuccessfully sought identity of posters through TikTok but received IP addresses and now is asking B.C. Supreme Court to order Telus to reveal names of those associated with them Photo by Jason Payne / PNG Article content A woman who has been harassed on TikTok with doctored videos and photos of her to allege she was having an affair is asking the B.C. Supreme Court to order Telus to release the names and email accounts related to 34 IP addresses identified by TikTok as responsible for the online posts, according to a court petition. 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Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Sign In or Create an Account Email Address Continue or View more offers Article content Article content tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or B.C. woman in TikTok posts seeks IP address info from Telus in court Back to video tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Play Video Article content In March, Gurvinder Dosanjh received a court ruling to provide user information for the TikTok accounts under what is called a Norwich order. The TikTok disclosure, however, did not provide names of the account holders but did include their IP, or internet protocol, addresses. The majority are assigned to Telus, her latest petition to the court says. Dosanjh is now seeking the identities from Telus of the holders of the IP addresses using the same Norwich order. A Norwich order is a 'type of pre-trial discovery which allows a rights holder to identify wrongdoers,' the petition states. 'They are increasingly used in the online context by plaintiffs who allege they are being anonymously defamed or defrauded and seek orders against internet service providers to disclose the identity of the perpetrator.' Canucks Report Essential reading for hockey fans who eat, sleep, Canucks, repeat. There was an error, please provide a valid email address. Sign Up By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Thanks for signing up! A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Canucks Report will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Article content Advertisement 3 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content An individual seeking a Norwich order must prove a bona fide claim against the unknown alleged wrongdoer, direct involvement in the matter under dispute, that the order is for information that can't be obtained otherwise, and that public interests in favour of disclosure outweigh privacy concerns. The seeker of the information also has to pay the information holder for reasonable expenses for providing the details, which Dosanjh has offered to do for Telus. To prove her claim is genuine, Dosanjh has to show that she was defamed, in other words that the posts would tend to lower the person's reputation in the eyes of a reasonable person, that she was the one being defamed, and that the words were published, according to the petition. Advertisement 4 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content It also said the TikTok videos are defamatory because they make false allegations that Dosanjh is engaging in 'sexual or romantic relations' with a former fitness trainer and she is cheating on her husband, that she is identifiable in the videos, and that they are posted to TikTok. Telus is involved in the dispute because it has enabled the TikTok account holders to post the defamatory images and comments by providing them with internet access, and it is therefore an 'innocent, but an involved, third party and not (a) mere witness.' The petition says disclosure of the creators of the TikTok videos 'will facilitate rectification of the wrong' by allowing Dosanjh to take action against the authors, including by launching lawsuits against them. Advertisement 5 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Telus has its own user privacy policies that allow disclosure of personal information in compliance with a court order, it said. Dosanjh said the person behind one of the TikTok account, for instance, posted several videos between Jan. 21 and Feb. 17 on TikTok that contained captions alleging she was cheating on her husband with a personal trainer she had hired for six months in 2022. There were several other similar posts, some with doctored photos, placing an image of her face on someone else's body. She doesn't know the identity of the posters and denies all their allegations. Messages left with Dosanjh's lawyer and Telus were not immediately returned. Read More Woman asks B.C. court to reveal names of TikTok posters who alleged she was having affair with trainer Court awards $118,000 to Lions Bay couple after neighbours defamed them in chat group Article content Share this article in your social network Latest National Stories
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
B.C. man who got $8M says he'll be penniless if made to pay sex assault damages
VANCOUVER — A British Columbia man who was awarded $8 million after being wrongfully convicted of sexual assault and spending 27 years in prison says he'll be left "homeless and penniless" if forced to pay civil damages to victims who won a lawsuit against him. The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled this week that five women who were awarded $375,000 each in January against Ivan Henry can't go after his home or vehicles pending his appeal, but ordered him to pay $232,000 into a trust account. "The value of the (January) judgment exceeds my net worth," Henry said in an affidavit. "I would be homeless and have no means to support myself." Henry was convicted of 10 counts of sexual assault in 1983, but was released after an appeal determined he was wrongfully convicted and he was acquitted in 2010. The appeal ruling says Henry was awarded more than $8 million in 2018 for breaches of his Charter rights after suing the province and others for wrongful conviction, but five women sued him in 2017, alleging he sexually assaulted them in their Vancouver homes in the early 1980s. The B.C. Supreme Court sided with the women in the civil case but the appeal ruling says Henry has not taken any steps to pay them and both he and the plaintiffs have filed appeals. The five women are appealing the court's refusal to award punitive damages in the case of $1 million each. This week's ruling says Henry applied to "stay execution" of the damages award and he told the court he spent millions defending the lawsuit, gave away more than $2 million, and now lives in a mortgage-free home on a monthly stipend from old-age security and the Canada Pension Plan. Henry filed an affidavit in the Court of Appeal this month that outlines his current living situation, his finances and the history of the case. It says he has had "significant health issues" since his release from prison, undergoing quintuple bypass heart surgery in 2016. Henry, now 78, said he lives alone at his home in Hope, B.C., with an assessed value of $650,000, and he owns two vehicles worth a combined $40,000. Henry said his Charter damages were paid out in instalments. He said he "gifted" more than $2 million to family members and a former partner, and also made donations. "These gifts were unconditional gifts with no expectation of repayment," said Henry, who estimated his annual living expenses at around $40,000. He said the rest of the money went toward living expense and legal expenses fighting the civil lawsuit. Henry said he continues to have "anxiety and other long-term effects" from his time behind bars, and asked the court to allow him to remain in his home until the appeal is decided. "My home provides me with a consistent and secure environment that supports my ability to manage these challenges. It is a place where I feel safe and can maintain a routine." The Court of Appeal found discrepancies in Henry's claims, finding his evidence leaves $1.8 million "unaccounted for," while he couldn't explain where "large sums" flowing in and out of his account went between 2018 and 2023. The ruling says Henry's affidavit is "not consistent" with what he said in an examination by the plaintiffs a week before he filed the document. He had said on May 5 that he gave away an estimated $3 million by 2017. He also said he had about $2 million and a house in 2024, but lost millions defending the civil action. Justice Nitya Iyer found that it is possible Henry doesn't have the money to pay the award and may lose his home, but "inconsistencies" in his affidavit and the examination "raise real questions about whether Mr. Henry has access to more funds than he claims." The ruling says the appeal will likely be heard this fall, with a decision in the spring of 2026. Lawyers for Henry and the complainants did not immediately respond to a requests for comment. The women who sued Henry described sexual assaults in their ground-floor or basement suites between May 1981 and June 1982. The judge in January's civil ruling found Henry liable, saying "it is more likely than not that he was their attacker and performed the sexual assaults … on a balance of probabilities." This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 30, 2025. Darryl Greer, The Canadian Press
CTV News
4 days ago
- Politics
- CTV News
B.C. man who got $8M says he'll be penniless if made to pay sex assault damages
Ivan Henry leaves B.C. Supreme Court during a lunch break in Vancouver, on Aug. 31, 2015. (Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press)
Winnipeg Free Press
4 days ago
- Winnipeg Free Press
B.C. man who got $8M says he'll be penniless if made to pay sex assault damages
VANCOUVER – A B.C. man who was awarded $8 million after being wrongfully convicted of sexual assault and spending 27 years in prison says he'll be left 'homeless and penniless' if forced to pay civil damages to victims who won a lawsuit against him. The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled this week that five victims who were awarded $375,000 each in January against Ivan Henry can't go after his home or vehicle pending his appeal, but ordered him to pay $232,000 into a trust account. The ruling says Henry received a multimillion-dollar payout in 2018 for breaches of his Charter rights after suing the province and others for wrongful conviction, but five complainants sued him in 2017 for sexual assaults they say he committed. The B.C. Supreme Court sided with the women but the ruling says Henry has not taken any steps to pay them and both he and the plaintiffs have filed appeals. The ruling says Henry applied to 'stay execution' of the damages award and told the court he spent millions defending the lawsuit, gave away more than $2 million, and now lives in a mortgage-free home on a monthly stipend from old-age security and the Canada Pension Plan. The Court of Appeal found discrepancies in Henry's claims, finding his evidence leaves $1.8 million 'unaccounted for,' while he couldn't explain where 'large sums' flowing in and out of his account went between 2018 and 2023. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 30, 2025.
Toronto Star
6 days ago
- Politics
- Toronto Star
Court orders B.C. to pass law giving French school board expropriation powers
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Supreme Court has ordered the provincial government to pass a law within six months providing the Francophone School Board with powers to expropriate private property to build new French-language schools. The court found that, unlike other school boards in B.C., the Francophone School Board is the only one without expropriation powers despite it having the 'greatest need' for new schools.
