Posted: May 10, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: May 10
The defamation lawsuit stems from a 2009 development deal to bring IKEA to Winnipeg. (Cliff Simpson/CBC)
A Winnipeg businessman has been awarded $500,000 in damages by a Manitoba jury in a civil defamation lawsuit.
Marcel Chartier, a real estate investor and developer, sued Winnipeg businessman Serge Bibeau in 2018 after learning Bibeau had called him a thief to a business associate.
The case was heard in Manitoba s Court of Queen s Bench last week and after two hours of deliberation, a jury sided with Chartier and awarded him $500,000 in damages. It s very much a big deal. It s not a minor suggestion that someone s a thief, said Robert Tapper, Chartier s lawyer. That s as bad as it gets.
Winnipeg Free Press
The 248,000-square-foot FedEx distribution and sorting facility in St. Boniface Industrial Park was purchased for $60 million by Toronto’s Crestpoint Real Estate Investments Ltd.
Last year, the first of the pandemic, managed to even take the shine off Winnipeg’s industrial real estate market, but 2020 ended with what observers say is the largest industrial real estate deal in the city’s history.
Last year, the first of the pandemic, managed to even take the shine off Winnipeg’s industrial real estate market, but 2020 ended with what observers say is the largest industrial real estate deal in the city’s history.