Category: Halifax

Another candidate has dropped out of the election race because of online postings…making it one each for the three major parties.

Jad Crnogorac, the PC candidate in Dartmouth South, was dropped by the Tories because of multiple Tweets about a date rape drug.  Conservaive leader Jamie Baillie said when it comes to things like rape culture and making jokes about it, that crosses a line.

Crnogorac said she shouldn’t have posted the jokes…but told CTV she was treated differently than another Tory candidate Matt Whitman who was also criticized over social media postings.

A Nova Scotia senator has been kicked out of the Conservative caucus because he decided to have dinner with the prime minister and other senators who had sponsored legislation.

Senator Stephen Greene, whose bill was about a taxation agreement with Taiwan and Israel, says other Tory Senators presented him with an ultimatum at this week’;s caucas meeting, prompting him to quit caucus. Greene issued a release calling the situation beyond silly and wondering why the Conservative senators wouldn’t want him to hear Trudeau’s plans for Senate reform.