Politics

Liberals ask election watchdog to investigate allegation of Conservative collusion with gun lobby

Liberal candidate Mark Gerretsen has written to Canada’s elections watchdog, asking him to investigate whether the Conservatives have broken the Canada Elections Act, alleging the party’s campaign director has been co-ordinating activities with the National Firearms Association.Kingston and the Islands Liberal candidate Mark Gerretsen, shown here during question period in the House of Commons in…

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University scolds former NHLer Theo Fleury for ‘reprehensible’ remarks against vaccine passports

Recent remarks against vaccine passports by former NHL star Theoren Fleury are “reprehensible” and a “stain on his legacy,” according to a Manitoba university that gave him an honorary doctorate.Theoren Fleury has used Twitter to rail against COVID-19 vaccines and vaccine passports, falsely linking the passports to pedophilia in one now-deleted tweet. (Larry MacDougal/The Canadian Press)Recent remarks…

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