There's a man in O-ville, Rob Bredin, who is offering a $3000 reward for information leading to arrest in Sonia's case, and inviting others to conrtibute to augment the reward to $50k. Myself, I don't think it has been a lack of financial incentive that we don't have justice yet for Sonia, but i commend a private citizen's efforts to stir up information:
http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2012-12-06/Columns/Ontario_Matters.html:
"I choose at this juncture to make the enhanced offer at my birthday, an offer I commenced two years ago – and this all I have to offer – of a $3,000 reward toward solving the stillunsolved murder of Sonia Varaschin.
This murder occurred in Orangeville, but one feels it could have occurred anywhere due to the “friendships” we may choose to contract electronically.
I know of no specifics in this case; but, what I do know is that no reward has been offered for information that will lead to an arrest and conviction. This cannot either be acceptable to or be accepted any longer by any man in this town.
Yes, any number of us spend too much time playing with our remote controls and joysticks, or pining for the NHL (there is no substitute), or planning our next expedition to Canadian Tire to puzzle over artificial Christmas trees.
But there are good, big-hearted men of conviction here in Orangeville – “Little Bobs”, Jims, Jeffs, Joes, “Big Freds”, and so on – solid, conservative, decent yeomen, and citizens. I am calling on them now – we oughtn’t wait any longer for the ineptly and vindictively chiefed Orangeville Police Service (and I know the investigation is being led by the OPP) – to join me in making up a reward of $50,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in this murder, the ultimate in violence against a woman.
This sort of reward-making, if that’s what it’s called, is how it was when I was a boy in the ’70s, although this kind of leadership and demonstration of resolve in the face of crime used to come naturally from our public officials; but now it has to, apparently, come from us private citizens.
This is how it has needs to be now, for all our sisters (larger sense) in town: for me, for our inaction, for our sitting on our hands and our mute passivity, it makes me feel like I am living in another, but far lesser, country, not Canada, not Ontario certainly.
My money will be available through the best, my solicitor, counsellor, and friend in town (and I can hear him clearing his throat in Florida), and his associates at, Robert G. Church, Q.C.
You, dear prospective donor, may contact me through the good offices of The Citizen in Orangeville, once more behind its refined brickwork.
Let’s get this done, let’s get it done now once-and-for-all, let’s get the perpetrator – not an “offender”, not someone who should be understood, but a plain criminal, a bullying , and a brutal murderer – off the streets that our sisters (daughters, mothers, girlfriends, aunties, companions, wives...) may no longer have his shadow here hanging heavily over them, or over our peaceful, pleasant streets in Orangeville, as this remains – and must remain – truly one of the safest, most trusting, and most law-abiding communities to be found anywhere in Ontario."
