Nobody Cares
Rem Westland turned to writing after a career in the Canadian Forces, academia, public service, consulting, and politics. He has self-published a non-fiction account on his run for Canada’s parliament in the 2011 federal election (Running for the People?). His first novel (Badly Hidden) is about a former soldier who kills his wife during a PTSD event. A number of short stories on the theme of power abuse have been published by Ottawa Independent Writers. Articles about politics have appeared i
Rem Westland turned to writing after a career in the Canadian Forces, academia, public service, consulting, and politics. He has self-published a non-fiction account on his run for Canada’s parliament in the 2011 federal election (Running for the People?). His first novel (Badly Hidden) is about a former soldier who kills his wife during a PTSD event. A number of short stories on the theme of power abuse have been published by Ottawa Independent Writers. Articles about politics have appeared in eVeritas (publication of Canada’s Royal Military College) and in the blog pages of the Samara Centre for Democracy.
In Nobody Cares a number of fraternity “brothers” rape a female student, Jessica Winslow, simply because they can. They are confident that nobody outside their tight circle of entitled young men w
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In Nobody Cares a number of fraternity “brothers” rape a female student, Jessica Winslow, simply because they can. They are confident that nobody outside their tight circle of entitled young men will care. Twenty years later, a private equity firm based in Texas threatens to destroy the law school where Jessica has rebuilt her life. The wealthy owners believe their pursuit of profit justifies whatever losses others may suffer. Whereas Jessica was helpless at that long-ago toga party in Florida, at the St. Andrews School of Law in Canada’s province of New Brunswick she is not alone. She and the faculty fight back. Lives are lost.
This is a non-fiction account of my run for public office in the Canadian federal election of 2011. It is a hard hitting story that documents personal and financial costs associated with a venture that was destined for defeat from the very start. The riding of Ottawa-Vanier, where I ran, has been held by the same political party since it was create
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This is a non-fiction account of my run for public office in the Canadian federal election of 2011. It is a hard hitting story that documents personal and financial costs associated with a venture that was destined for defeat from the very start. The riding of Ottawa-Vanier, where I ran, has been held by the same political party since it was created in 1923.
Badly Hidden is a novel that documents the descent into madness of a war veteran (Afganistan), Scott Weatherhill. During a PTSD event he is responsible for the death of his wife. The attempt by medical and mental health experts to return him to society goes badly wrong, though Scott is redeemed in his own mind by a love he had not expected to ever
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Badly Hidden is a novel that documents the descent into madness of a war veteran (Afganistan), Scott Weatherhill. During a PTSD event he is responsible for the death of his wife. The attempt by medical and mental health experts to return him to society goes badly wrong, though Scott is redeemed in his own mind by a love he had not expected to ever find.
