Sep 21 2019 — Global News — Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says one of her party candidates running in Newfoundland and Labrador has admitted to her that he once wore blackface decades ago for a comedy skit. Greg Malone, the candidate in Avalon, N.L., once wore blackface for a skit for CODCO, a show that used to run on CBC back […]
Sep 20 2019 — Global News — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said that, if elected, his government would help build new oil pipelines by “fast-tracking” any objections right to the Supreme Court, but legal experts say the proposed plan is unclear. “It’s about fast-tracking some of the questions that have been raised by people who oppose the project,” Scheer said, speaking at […]
Sep 20 2019 — Global News — It was during a “costume day” for instructors of a whitewater rafting operation in Quebec that a young Justin Trudeau was filmed in blackface. The Liberal leader clarified the location of the damning video on Friday, a day after it was published exclusively by Global News.
Sep 19 2019 — Global News — A B.C. man who attended the party where Justin Trudeau was pictured wearing brownface said the Liberal leader’s costume was not considered inappropriate at the time, and would not have been allowed otherwise. The picture first published by Time magazine shows Trudeau in dark makeup while wearing a turban. The photo was taken at a […]
Sep 19 2019 — Tasha Kheiriddin — Global News — What were you doing when you were 29? Working? Buying a condo? Getting married? Dressing up in blackface and brownface at parties? Yeah, I didn’t think so. As Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau tries to extricate himself from an increasingly inextricable situation, one question looms large: how could a grown man, an educated man who sought […]
Sep 19 2019 — Global News — Global News has obtained video showing Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau in blackface, the third instance of racist dress to come to light in 12 hours. It’s not clear when or where the video was taken, but the video, obtained exclusively by Global News, shows Trudeau covered in what appears to be dark makeup and raising […]
Sep 18 2019 — Supriya Dwivedi — Global News — As the federal election campaign kicked off, Quebec Premier François Legault all but dared the federal leaders to stay out of the court challenges facing Bill 21, formally titled An Act Respecting the Laicity of the State and informally known as Quebec’s most recent attempt at enshrining discrimination against religious minorities into law.
Sep 18 2019 — Global News — Guelph’s Green Party candidate Steve Dyck is on the defensive after a post from his personal Facebook page supporting the 9/11 truther movement came to light this week. The video link shared by Dyck in December 2015 was created by “Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.” It argues 7 World Trade Center was destroyed by […]
Sep 18 2019 — Global News — A Calgary-based legal foundation is asking an Ontario court to strike down new sections of the Elections Act that forbid making certain false statements during a campaign. “In our view, this legislation is almost comically in violation of … the Charter guarantee of freedom of expression,” said the Canadian Constitution Foundation‘s executive director, Joanna Baron.
Sep 18 2019 — Global News — The Middlesex-London Health Unit (MLHU) is set to hold a news conference on Wednesday afternoon regarding a youth diagnosed with an illness that health officials say is linked to vaping.
Sep 18 2019 — Global News — Not many women have been the mother and wife of a Prime Minister, and at 71 Margaret Trudeau will tell you she’s has quite the life. “I’ve had a very glamorous life. I’ve had a very sad life,” she told Global News. The sad part is why Trudeau, now a mental health advocate, is bringing […]
Sep 18 2019 — Amanda Connolly — Global News — Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has leapt ahead of his rival, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, in Canadians’ estimations of whom would make the best prime minister, a new poll suggests. According to an Ipsos poll conducted exclusively for Global News and La Presse between Sept. 11 and 13, 37 per cent of Canadians surveyed said they […]
Sep 18 2019 — Global News — Kissing babies is campaign trail behaviour 101. But on the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 17, during NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s visit to the International Plowing Match in Verner, Ont., a very unlikely impromptu baby photo op unfolded — and it was requested by a Conservative politician.
Sep 17 2019 — Global News — The federal leader who has arguably garnered the most attention in the last 24 hours is in New Brunswick. Maxime Bernier, leader of the People’s Party of Canada, says his party has “momentum” a day after he was invited to take part in the French and English leaders’ debates. “There’s a momentum for us right […]
Sep 17 2019 — Global News — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said in a letter Tuesday that he is “troubled” that People’s Party of Canada (PPC) Leader Maxime Bernier has been invited to participate in the leaders’ debate and called on debates commissioner David Johnston to reconsider his decision.