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With a blackface PM leading the way

Sep 25, 2019
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'Shark Tank' Kevin O'Leary's Wife and Other Driver Charged with Crime in Fatal Boat Crash
‘Shark Tank’ Kevin O’Leary’s Wife Charged in Fatal Boat Crash, Other Driver Charged Too“Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary’s wife, Linda, is being charged in the fatal boat crash incident.dlvr.it

September 24th 2019

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Careless operation of a vessel is a charge that could bring a maximum penalty of up to 18 months’ imprisonment, a fine of up to $1 million, or both for Linda O’Leary. The driver of the other boat in the August 24 crash in Muskoka—which left two people dead—has been charged with failing to exhibit a navigation light while underway.


C is currently for courtroom

Twitter avatar for @TheTorontoSunToronto Sun @TheTorontoSun
In this changing world of #MeToo and anti-harassment, the Maple Leafs can't look away from the alleged immature hijinks of Auston Matthews and award him the captaincy, @simmonssteve says.
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September 25th 2019

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A pretrial conference regarding Auston Matthews in his hometown of Scottsdale, Arizona, concerns a complaint to police that, on May 26, the Leafs forward appeared to be intoxicated when he was in a group of men trying to get into a female security guard’s locked car. Matthews allegedly became animated while his trousers were down.


“Trudeau says entering politics, father’s death changed perspective on blackface.” The PM’s interview with Global’s Dawna Friesen came with a continuity error, since Justin’s infamous Arabian Nights photo was from 2001, the year after his dad died.


Resisting a social media script

Eva Nassif, the Montreal-area MP whose decision to not run for re-election led to claims she was pushed out, tells the Globe and Mail that her refusal to laud Justin Trudeau’s feminist credentials amidst the SNC-Lavalin scandal came with a cost to her own career:

Twitter avatar for @CFRASnowRob Snow @CFRASnow
From Fife and Chase: "...called her to the Chateau Champlain Hotel in Montreal...They offered me an impossible choice – withdraw my nomination or face public humiliation. They told me I had 24 hours to decide and that no appeal was possible." #elxn43
Montreal-area MP says Liberals forced her out for not lauding Trudeau as a feministEva Nassif also says she was the subject of ‘continuous bullying, harassment and intimidation’ by three male MPs since shortly after the 2015 electiontheglobeandmail.com

September 25th 2019

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MP turfed from Canadian Alliance in 2003 for anti-gay comments says that Andrew Scheer agreed with him. HuffPost dusts off the story of what happened to Larry Spencer after he said homosexuality should be outlawed. Spencer’s claim of concurrence by Scheer are being disputed by somebody who was there.


Vice is pivoting to gravitas

Word of the Viceland channel (which was cancelled in Canada) primarily dedicating itself to current events followed speculation of ViacomCBS acquiring the company. For now, CBS-owned Showtime is salvaging Vice’s weekly prestige show dumped by HBO:

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"VICE", the weekly docu-series, is coming soon to @Showtime. Spring 2020.
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September 24th 2019

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The great Canadian specialty channel retrenchment. Corus Entertainment is closing Cosmopolitan TV, an 11-year-old spin-off of the women’s magazine, on September 30. Also being axed that day is IFC Canada, which launched in 2001 as a northern outpost of the Independent Film Channel—but will end its run as a burial ground for Cancon cast-offs.


Finally, one woman, two cups

Elizabeth May was revealed to be holding not a party-branded reusable cup and metal straw, as Green officials previously claimed, but a single-use coffee cup in an official promotional photo. But the party leader says that, despite the Photoshop trickery, she has nothing to hide, as she avoids single-use plastics, and carries bamboo utensils around at all times.

Twitter avatar for @_llebrunLuke LeBrun @_llebrun
Here’s the original, undoctored photo of Elizabeth May that the Green Party photoshopped to switch a paper cup with an imaginary reusable cup and metal straw, for some reason. The photo is now on the front of the Green’s website. Original archived here:
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September 24th 2019

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