Who will replace Mulcair? (NDP leadership)

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by whatnext

So what's this about Jagmeet Singh getting married, maybe?

http://nationalpost.com/news/politic...t-say-for-sure

Aww, that's cute. Pretty lady BTW.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by esquire

^ That would be easier to accept if just about every, if not every single PM in Canadian history wasn't Christian. I realize there is a spectrum that they might fall along from hardcore practicing Christian to somewhat nominal Christian in name only, but the point is that religious party leaders are nothing new in Canada and it remains the case today. No question that Scheer and Singh are religious, Trudeau probably is Catholic in that Quebec kind of way where you identify with Catholic heritage but that's about the extent of it. I don't know about the Bloc's leader but I'd wager it's not far off from the standard Quebec model that Trudeau follows.

So if it's not an issue that Scheer (or Harper before him) and Trudeau are Christian, let's say, then what is the matter with Singh? The mere fact that he doesn't cut his hair and wraps it in a turban is a bridge too far? At this point it's starting to look a bit like racism. If the issue here is not wanting to vote for someone who professes a faith, why does only the brown guy get singled out? It doesn't make sense.

Well, for what it's worth Jean Tremblay is as white as they come, in addition to being a Québécois/French Canadian/Catholic with ancestors going back to New France. He was until very very recently the mayor of Saguenay (and Chicoutimi prior to that) and was widely derided in the Quebec media and beyond for being very publicly outspoken about his Catholic faith (among other things).

[Loco101]

Originally Posted by Acajack

Wouldn't artist Clément Berini be an example of that?

Yes, for sure! Haven't heard his name in awhile. I do know that he was one of the main founders of the Centre culturel La Ronde. His brother Moïse Berini is well known here as well.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by rrskylar

This is rich, so clueless Singh and the bastion of stupidity called the NDP party starts his campaign off in the wrong riding unbeknownst to him, you can’t make this stuff up!

Actually, it turns out you can make it up. And somebody did:

Last Wednesday at 4 a.m., the false news was ready to be launched into media networks, to be picked up by newsroom editors and producers and spread across the country dressed up as a fact.

No, it wasn’t an early morning fake news tweet from Donald Trump. Or the latest bogus claim from some alt-right website. It was a false Canadian news story produced by one of the most established Canadian media sources, the Canadian Press.

And it set off a disturbing chain of events, raising serious questions not only about media capability and commitment to shut down fake news, but also whether some Canadian outlets are willing to knowingly propagate it.

The 4 a.m. news story was from the Canadian Press — a news service that provides completed reports to subscribing newsrooms. And the story carried the headline “Singh launched NDP byelection campaign in wrong Scarborough riding.” As they do every morning, editors and producers would have reviewed the story assuming it’d been checked before they decided whether to run it. And many did.

But it hadn’t been checked. The report described an NDP event held in Scarborough with federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh as a byelection launch event. Except it wasn’t. It was, in fact, just another of the many “JagMeet and Greet” events the party has organized across the country to allow NDP members to meet their new leader. It was in Scarborough. But it wasn’t the campaign launch.

The NDP’s Scarborough-Agincourt byelection campaign launch had taken place a week before. And definitely took place inside the boundaries of the riding. The story was totally wrong.

It seems the CP reporter was so sure she had a wonderful piece of embarrassing clickbait for newsrooms that she closed her report with an editorial tone and dismissive advice. For the next byelection, she proffered, “sending the leader into the wrong riding might be one of the things they’ll want to consider.”...(bold mine)

https://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2017/1...cratic-Damage/

[Doady]

Originally Posted by whatnext

Actually, it turns out you can make it up. And somebody did:

Last Wednesday at 4 a.m., the false news was ready to be launched into media networks, to be picked up by newsroom editors and producers and spread across the country dressed up as a fact.

No, it wasn’t an early morning fake news tweet from Donald Trump. Or the latest bogus claim from some alt-right website. It was a false Canadian news story produced by one of the most established Canadian media sources, the Canadian Press.

And it set off a disturbing chain of events, raising serious questions not only about media capability and commitment to shut down fake news, but also whether some Canadian outlets are willing to knowingly propagate it.

The 4 a.m. news story was from the Canadian Press — a news service that provides completed reports to subscribing newsrooms. And the story carried the headline “Singh launched NDP byelection campaign in wrong Scarborough riding.” As they do every morning, editors and producers would have reviewed the story assuming it’d been checked before they decided whether to run it. And many did.

But it hadn’t been checked. The report described an NDP event held in Scarborough with federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh as a byelection launch event. Except it wasn’t. It was, in fact, just another of the many “JagMeet and Greet” events the party has organized across the country to allow NDP members to meet their new leader. It was in Scarborough. But it wasn’t the campaign launch.

The NDP’s Scarborough-Agincourt byelection campaign launch had taken place a week before. And definitely took place inside the boundaries of the riding. The story was totally wrong.

It seems the CP reporter was so sure she had a wonderful piece of embarrassing clickbait for newsrooms that she closed her report with an editorial tone and dismissive advice. For the next byelection, she proffered, “sending the leader into the wrong riding might be one of the things they’ll want to consider.”...(bold mine)

https://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2017/1...cratic-Damage/

No surprise these left-wing kook reporters would try to make it seem like a made-up story to not make an NDP leader look bad, especially considering he is from the Toronto area. Just another example of the left-wing, Toronto-centric bias in Canadian media.

[Loco101]

Originally Posted by Doady

No surprise these left-wing kook reporters would try to make it seem like a made-up story to not make an NDP leader look bad, especially considering he is from the Toronto area. Just another example of the left-wing, Toronto-centric bias in Canadian media.

I find that many reporters in general can't get the facts straight. It's not always a left or right thing. It's seems to be sensation over quality.