Article on a jurisdictional ruling in a defamation case brought in Toronto against the Washington Post by a former UN official, over an article written while he was in Kenya, allegedly mismanaging an allegedly corrupt UN program there. After the plaintiff left Kenya (and long after the article was published) he settled in Canada, ultimately becoming a citizen there. Then he sued, natch.

The ruling (yep, you guessed it): The Canadian court has jurisdiction.

Scariest quote: [the WaPo] "should have reasonably foreseen that the story would follow the plaintiff wherever he resided."

My personal editorial two cents: We've already learned over the past few years that the jurisdiction of UN tribunals and the World Court (cough, cough) is everywhere and everyone all the time. I guess having a former UN official in the dock lent this Canadian court a bit of that kind of stretchy reasoning.