Canadian media organizations grapple with requests to ‘unpublish’ articles
TORONTO — The relief Martin Streete felt the day he walked out of court a free man erodes with every click of Google’s search button.
Every time he researches his name, he’s confronted with a 2011 headline announcing criminal charges he never had to face in court.
Streete said he was arrested in 2011 after an alleged sexual assault in Regina, because he matched the description provided by the complainant. Less than a year later, the charges against him were stayed and the matter was dropped.
But local newspaper reports of the initial arrest cost Streete his job and, he said, continue to limit his employment prospects years later.