An outstanding program for those interested in the law!

Hi Clare,

Thank you so much for taking the time to watch our program -- and to send this good idea .... I remember that movie .... We will be tackling the topic of difficult divorce and other family law issues in future programs .... Please keep watching -- and tell your friends, too!

All the best,
Paula
The Verdict with Paula Todd
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From: Clare Pieuk [mailto:pieuk@shaw.ca]
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 10:50 PM
To: theverdict@ctv.ca
Subject: War of the Roses - 2007

Monday April 2, 2007

Dear Ms Todd:

You might wish to look at a case which has been drawing a lot of attention recently to New York State's antiquated divorce laws - so much so its been dubbed Brooklyn's War of the Roses after the 1989 movie featuring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.

The Associated Press article has been reproduced in its entirety on www.cybersmokeblog.blogspot.com.

Regards,
Clare L. Pieuk
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Paula Todd (born 1959) is a Canadian journalist, lawyer and author best known as host of The Verdict with Paula Todd, the nightly, live, prime-time legal and justice affairs program on CTV's Newsnet. Prior to joining CTV News in 2007, Todd was the host and co-producer of TV Ontario's interview program Person 2 Person with Paula Todd.

She previously co-hosted the nightly, Gemini award-winning Newsmagazine Studio 2 with Steve Paikin for 10 years before that show's cancellation in June 2006. Todd has written exclusively for such publications as the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Elm Street Magazine, Canadian Living and The Law Times.

Todd entered public broadcasting after more than a dozen years at Canada's largest newspaper, The Toronto Star, where she worked as a reporter, feature writer and Queen's park political correspondent. The last four years at The Toronto Sar, Todd served as an editorial writer and a member of the newspaper's Editorial Board.

Ms Todd served as a judge for the National Newspaper Awards, the Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship (ACE) Awards and was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2003. She is the 2004 recipient of The Paramedic Association's Media Award for public education and serves on the Board of Drectors for Integra, an organization that assists children and teens with learning disabilities. She is also the author of the best-selling book, A Quiet Courage: Inspiring Stories from all of Us.

A frequent contributor to radio and television before joining TVO, Paula was a regular host of CBC Newsworld's Face Off, appeared as a frequent Globe TV and CBC panalist and also as a political analyst for CBC Radio in Toronto and Ottawa. Paula earned her B.A. in English literature from York University (where she served as co-editor of Excalibur) and her LL.B. from York University's Osgoode Hall Law School.

She is married to Doug Grant, the Director of Current Affairs and Weekly Programming for CBC TV and Newsworld.