PUBLISHER REJECTS PITCH FOR FARMER TO TELL ‘HIS SIDE’

A publisher has rejected a request from a law firm that represents the Saskatchewan farmer acquitted in the fatal shooting of a young Indigenous man who now wants to tell “his side” of what happened. Last month, a jury found Gerald Stanley, pictured, not guilty of second- degree murder in the 2016 death of Colten Boushie. Toronto- based publisher Between The Lines ( BTL) says it received the request from Stanley’s legal team. “Our press has rejected the request for a meeting and instead offered an expression of our solidarity with the Boushie family,” BTL said in a statement Thursday. “Mr. Stanley’s side of the story has already been told — and was validated, in wilful disregard of the facts and expert testimony, by an all- white jury.”