which is understandable cause it's weird.

His employer, the CBC (think NBC but state-sponsored) terminated him. The article written about the allegations was a different media company....The Toronto Star.

And the Toronto star doesn't have a burden of proof because police investigated the incident. They are simply reporting that there were allegations and an investigation took place. They're allowed to print that regardless of his guilt/innocence. There's no possible libel suit here. It's simply a wrongful dismissal suit against his employer...not the newspaper that ran the story first.

And yah, I'd characterize him as being famous in Canada.