HUNTER: Killers giving lectures? Classmate a sex killer? Welcome to Canada!
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In a wide swath of endeavours, good judgement has joined the endangered species list alongside black rhinos, blue whales and piping plovers.
A trio of events underscore this cruel fact in the crime file.
It’s the Elizabeth Fry Society’s turn for the dunce cap. Someone in their ranks decided that hosting a panel discussion on violence featuring a woman convicted in the vicious murder of a teenager was a championship idea.
Victim stabbed 200 times
Meet Marissa Shephard, humanitarian.
In 2021, Shephard was sentenced to 12 years in jail after she pleaded guilty to manslaughter and arson in the gruesome death of Baylee Wylie, 18, in Moncton. Wylie was stabbed a horrific 200 times.
Still, the Nova Scotia chapter — which supports incarcerated women and ex-cons — thought Shephard would be ideal for the, ahem, “Navigating the Legal System and Community Supports After Violence, Victimization, and Loss” roundtable. The event was in support of the Logan Alexandra Russell Fund, created in memory of a Cape Breton woman murdered by her domestic partner.
Naturally, Russell’s family was not looped in. They apologized to Baylee Wylie’s family.
‘Beyond disappointed and heartbroken’
“I am beyond disappointed and heartbroken that they would use Logan’s legacy in connection with someone like her,” Maureen MacTaggart wrote.
Whoops, said Elizabeth Fry in a statement.
Moving on to another smorgasbord of piss-poor judgement, and no one will be surprised it unfolded at one of our places of hire learning. Or “learing” as it’s spelled in Minneapolis.
Meet Jeffrey George Ewert , convicted killer. Someone at McGill University’s Faculty of Law thought it an excellent idea to admit Ewert as a student. He was on day parole, but those nifty keen academics cheered him on.
But, oh dear, it may not have landed well with the public. Easy to see why.
Ewert was convicted in 1984 of second-degree murder and attempted murder stemming from two separate sex attacks in B.C. In those adventures, he strangled a 19-year-old woman to death. Six weeks later, he battered and choked a 15-year-old girl.
Victim left blind, paralyzed, permanently disabled
The teen was left blind, paralyzed, and permanently disabled. His admission was revoked and now he’s back in the slammer.
But during the glorious fall semester, Ewert was a frequent flier at faculty events. One group of students wanted him barred while another said: “YAY! George!”
Trippy fellow student Amy Haysom was A-OK with the killer as classmate and neatly sums up the faculty lounge ethos: “He was this quiet, reserved gentleman, long braids, really lovely energy.”
We didn’t receive feedback from Ewert’s victims about his “really lovely energy.”
Closer to home, in November 2025, a law professor emerged from the faculty lounge hivemind believing it a nifty idea to have a kindly gentleman named Cosmo Jacobson speak at a provincial judges’ conference in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.
Jacobson is a ‘ruthless murderer’
Jacobson was convicted in 2005 for the brutal murder of Ray Jones, an innocent man who was the key Crown witness against one Cosmo Jacobson in a Durham Region home invasion case.
At the legal eagle soiree, Jacobson told attendees that the system was, gosh, too hard on people who break the law. You know, murderers like Cosmo Jacobson, who are brazen enough to ice a Crown witness.
Ontario Court Justice Brenda Green demonstrated that, in fact, there is some sanity in the judiciary. The good judge did not mince words, calling Jacobson a “ruthless murderer who extinguished the light of a brave soul.”
But in academia and the caring professions, judgement, it seems, is kicked out the window. The enablers? They’re like teens reading a copy of Tiger Beat and gushing how dreamy Cosmo and George are.