#MeToo in Canada, reporter Paul Bliss suspended on sexual harassment case
Toronto, Jan 27 (IBNS): #MeToo campaign which flooded social media recently in the wake of sexual harassment cases by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, Canada has witnessed a similar development.
Bell Media has suspended reporter Paul Bliss due to the ongoing investigation on his sexual harassment case.
Bliss, who was Bell's Vice President of communications, also works as CTV's bureau in Ontario legislature.
The allegations were hurled on Bliss in an email by Bridget Brown, who claims to be a former CTV employee.
In a blog post tilted as "MeToo in Canada Broadcasting", Brown explained how she was sexually harassed by Bliss in the spring of 2006.
Brown said after joining CTV News, she went up to a reporter whom she had met at a party and asked to go out for coffee at a cafeteria.
Bliss, however, asked her to come to the office. Then Bliss showed her the entire building, the accuser said.
He started to kiss me despite a blunt disapproval, she added.
Brown said she kept quiet about the entire incident for years but she was thinking of revealing it of late.
#MeToo campaign which was launched on social media in the wake of the reports of sexual harassment of actresses by powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
American actress Alyssa Milano, on October 15, wrote a post on Twitter and asked her followers to retweet it with a reply 'me too' if they were sexually harassed or assaulted , to imply the "magnitude of the problem".
The urge to retweet by Milano hds sparked the hashtag as several women started to write on social networking sites #MeToo and some of them even shared their own experiences.
(Reporting by Suman Das)
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