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TVO’s Steve Paikin says progenitive harassment charge is ‘complete fiction’
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Sexual harassment allegation against TVO host Steve Paikin ‘not substantiated,’ external probe finds
TV Ontario says an external investigation has cleared veteran broadcaster Steve Paikin of sexual harassment allegations made by former Toronto mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson.
Paikin remained on the job as host of TVO’s The Agenda after the allegation came to light in February. He said there wasn’t “a shred of truth” to Thomson’s claim that he propositioned her during a lunch meeting in 2010.
TVO chief executive officer Lisa de Wilde said on Friday that the third-party investigator found the allegations were “not substantiated” and Paikin did not violate the station’s policies.
“As such, the investigation is now closed. TVO is proud of the work of Steve Paikin, who has been at the centre of TVO’s journalism for more than 25 years,” she said in a statement.
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Paikin said he was relieved to read the report and thanked his supporters.
The station said 21 people were interviewed by a third-party investigator, employment lawyer Rachel Turnpenney of Turnpenney Milne LLP, over the course of an 11-week probe into the matter.
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Sarah Thomson (publisher)
Sarah Jane Thomson, also known as Sarah Jane Whatmough-Thomson,[1] (born 1968) is an entrepreneur who was publisher and CEO of the Women's Post and a former candidate for mayor of Toronto.
Early career
[edit]Thomson was born Sarah Jane Whatmough in Toronto and grew up in Burlington, Ontario. After dropping out of high school at 15, leaving home, and spending several months couch surfing and living on the streets,[2] she began working at a gas station at age 16 and progressed quickly to become a manager, and Sunoco franchise dealer, until at the age of 18, she founded a company to manage and turnaround struggling gas stations.[3] Thomson claims that her management company grossed over $30 million a year with more than 200 employees.[3]
While building her management company, Thomson enrolled at McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario as a mature student at the age of 21 to study Philosophy and English.[4]
In her twenties, Thomson became involved in restoring old homes. She created a small bookstore in her home and went through a long and drawn out rezoning process that drew her into politics.[citation needed]
As Sarah Whatmough, she ran in the 1997 municipal election for on