The former Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Gerald Butts spread false information attempting to further tie the Conservative Party of Canada with the “Canadian alt-right”.
A federal court judge ordered Trudeau-government appointed Leaders’ Debate Commission to accredit conservative reporters which were previously barred.
British Columbia will be a fierce battleground on election day. Party leaders have devoted valuable pre-election time to campaign in the province and to persuade voters to pick their respective party at the ballot.
The Leader’s Debate Commission’s journalist accreditation guidelines appear to have been created last Thursday, a day before barring conservative-leaning news outlets True North and The Rebel from covering the debate because of alleged advocacy.
In a broadside against the tide of political correctness that has seen statues removed and buildings renamed over the past several years, Andrew Scheer promised that a Conservative government would honour Canada’s past, warts and all.
The Conservative Party of Canada sent out a press release Monday morning questioning why Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau gave different reasons for why he abruptly left his teaching job at B.C. private school mid-school year in 2001.
While party leaders prepare to face each other in tonight’s debate, multiple Canadian journalists fight for their right to report on their own government.
The Liberal leader arrived 32 minutes behind schedule for the event with local parents and children, leaving them waiting in the rain.
The Liberal candidate, Jaime Battiste, was revealed by the Toronto Sun to have penned numerous racist, sexist, and homophobic social media posts, dating back to 2012.
In May, it was revealed that Elections Canada needed to eliminate an estimated 103,000 people from their voters’ register because they aren’t Canadian, but nonetheless were registered to vote. This number was later revised to 85,000, of which 74,000 were removed, according to Elections Canada.
Despite a flurry of media interest in the recently-revealed U.S. citizenship of Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, far less interest has been given to the ambiguous citizenship of another federal party leader — Green Party leader Elizabeth May.
This has been the most divisive election in recent memory. Whoever wins the election will inherit a brutally divided nation.
“So if Toronto had a drinking water problem, if Montreal had a drinking water problem, would you be asking the same question?” asked visibly upset NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to a journalist questioning the cost of getting all Indigenous communities fresh drinking water.
True North journalist takes accreditation fight to court after being barred from leaders' debate