SCOOP: PC candidate not going quietly in Simcoe-Grey
Plus: Chief of staff shakeup...Amend, not appeal election finance law?...Human Rights commish on "toxic" OPS...Second-shot struggle
It’s not just you, yesterday’s newsletter didn’t go around — apologies! — but it allowed me to bring you this scoop-filled edition, featuring the next moves from a spurned candidate in Simcoe—Grey, rumoured amendments to the election financing law for third parties, the human rights commissioner’s response to a reportedly “toxic” public service, a chief of staff shakeup and more.
Good Wednesday morning. This is Queen’s Park Observer.
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SPOTTED last night: Covid restrictions were eased so that thousands could gather for an outdoor vigil in London where a Muslim family was run down in what police are calling a targeted hate crime. Many politicians, including all Ontario leaders, were in tow — with Premier DOUG FORD getting booed. Meanwhile, a former PC candidate for the riding JEFF BENNETT issued a bold statement: “This terrorist may have been alone in that truck on that day, but he was not acting alone. He was raised in a racist city that pretends it isn’t.”
