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With some movement in the captain’s race, we’ll take you inside a high-tension Liberal executive council meeting. A poll has Torontonians weighing in on the fate of the Billy Bishop Airport. But to start, a cabinet minister is doubling down over an X post described as “defamatory and libellous.”
SCOOP — Energy Minister Stephen Lecce is standing by a post labeling several student groups “hateful,” “anti-Semitic” and “morally degenerate.”
In October, a pair of groups at the University of Toronto Mississauga played co-host to a vigil honouring Palestinian “martyrs,” condemned by one group as “rubbing salt into the wounds of our Jewish learners, staff, faculty, and alumni.”
Lecce said the groups should be “condemned and banned from any campus,” arguing their ideology was “poisonous” and incompatible with “well-established Canadian values.”
As we reported last week, the Muslim Student Association issued a libel notice to Lecce, calling the statements “completely and absolutely false, defamatory and libellous.” “The statements tend to, and do in fact, injure, prejudice, and disparage,” they wrote.
His response: Lecce is refusing to apologize or retract the post.
Peter Downard, Lecce’s lawyer, said the statements amounted to “comment a person could honestly make on the facts,” arguing the post supported an inference that the “martyrs” referenced included assailants killed during Hamas’ attack on Israel.
“They related to a subject of obvious interest,” Downard wrote on Dec. 1. “They are not actionable.”
Here’s the full text:
What to watch: No word yet of a looming court challenge — and one is not expected — despite the group’s earlier threat. Lecce’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
A message from Next Campaign:
SCOOP — With a leadership contest looming, the mood was tense — some said “bombastic” — at Sunday’s Liberal executive council meeting.
Amid the scramble, at least one would-be candidate is thinking twice about running at all.
Andrew Boozary, who led in a hypothetical poll testing the race, has yet to rule it out, though some expect he’ll pass on the leadership race to run federally in University-Rosedale. Sharan Kaur, an advisor to Boozary, declined to say much, but described “the disconnect happening at the party level” as “concerning.”
With some movement in the captain’s race, we’ll take you inside a high-tension Liberal executive council meeting. A poll has Torontonians weighing in on the fate of the Billy Bishop Airport. But to start, a cabinet minister is doubling down over an X post described as “defamatory and libellous.”
SCOOP — Energy Minister Stephen Lecce is standing by a post labeling several student groups “hateful,” “anti-Semitic” and “morally degenerate.”
In October, a pair of groups at the University of Toronto Mississauga played co-host to a vigil honouring Palestinian “martyrs,” condemned by one group as “rubbing salt into the wounds of our Jewish learners, staff, faculty, and alumni.”
Lecce said the groups should be “condemned and banned from any campus,” arguing their ideology was “poisonous” and incompatible with “well-established Canadian values.”
As we reported last week, the Muslim Student Association issued a libel notice to Lecce, calling the statements “completely and absolutely false, defamatory and libellous.” “The statements tend to, and do in fact, injure, prejudice, and disparage,” they wrote.
His response: Lecce is refusing to apologize or retract the post.
Peter Downard, Lecce’s lawyer, said the statements amounted to “comment a person could honestly make on the facts,” arguing the post supported an inference that the “martyrs” referenced included assailants killed during Hamas’ attack on Israel.
“They related to a subject of obvious interest,” Downard wrote on Dec. 1. “They are not actionable.”
Here’s the full text:
What to watch: No word yet of a looming court challenge — and one is not expected — despite the group’s earlier threat. Lecce’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
A message from Next Campaign:
SCOOP — With a leadership contest looming, the mood was tense — some said “bombastic” — at Sunday’s Liberal executive council meeting.
Amid the scramble, at least one would-be candidate is thinking twice about running at all.
Andrew Boozary, who led in a hypothetical poll testing the race, has yet to rule it out, though some expect he’ll pass on the leadership race to run federally in University-Rosedale. Sharan Kaur, an advisor to Boozary, declined to say much, but described “the disconnect happening at the party level” as “concerning.”
With some movement in the captain’s race, we’ll take you inside a high-tension Liberal executive council meeting. A poll has Torontonians weighing in on the fate of the Billy Bishop Airport. But to start, a cabinet minister is doubling down over an X post described as “defamatory and libellous.”
SCOOP — Energy Minister Stephen Lecce is standing by a post labeling several student groups “hateful,” “anti-Semitic” and “morally degenerate.”
In October, a pair of groups at the University of Toronto Mississauga played co-host to a vigil honouring Palestinian “martyrs,” condemned by one group as “rubbing salt into the wounds of our Jewish learners, staff, faculty, and alumni.”
Lecce said the groups should be “condemned and banned from any campus,” arguing their ideology was “poisonous” and incompatible with “well-established Canadian values.”
As we reported last week, the Muslim Student Association issued a libel notice to Lecce, calling the statements “completely and absolutely false, defamatory and libellous.” “The statements tend to, and do in fact, injure, prejudice, and disparage,” they wrote.
His response: Lecce is refusing to apologize or retract the post.
Peter Downard, Lecce’s lawyer, said the statements amounted to “comment a person could honestly make on the facts,” arguing the post supported an inference that the “martyrs” referenced included assailants killed during Hamas’ attack on Israel.
“They related to a subject of obvious interest,” Downard wrote on Dec. 1. “They are not actionable.”
Here’s the full text:
What to watch: No word yet of a looming court challenge — and one is not expected — despite the group’s earlier threat. Lecce’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
A message from Next Campaign:
SCOOP — With a leadership contest looming, the mood was tense — some said “bombastic” — at Sunday’s Liberal executive council meeting.
Amid the scramble, at least one would-be candidate is thinking twice about running at all.
Andrew Boozary, who led in a hypothetical poll testing the race, has yet to rule it out, though some expect he’ll pass on the leadership race to run federally in University-Rosedale. Sharan Kaur, an advisor to Boozary, declined to say much, but described “the disconnect happening at the party level” as “concerning.”
With some movement in the captain’s race, we’ll take you inside a high-tension Liberal executive council meeting. A poll has Torontonians weighing in on the fate of the Billy Bishop Airport. But to start, a cabinet minister is doubling down over an X post described as “defamatory and libellous.”
SCOOP — Energy Minister Stephen Lecce is standing by a post labeling several student groups “hateful,” “anti-Semitic” and “morally degenerate.”
In October, a pair of groups at the University of Toronto Mississauga played co-host to a vigil honouring Palestinian “martyrs,” condemned by one group as “rubbing salt into the wounds of our Jewish learners, staff, faculty, and alumni.”
Lecce said the groups should be “condemned and banned from any campus,” arguing their ideology was “poisonous” and incompatible with “well-established Canadian values.”
As we reported last week, the Muslim Student Association issued a libel notice to Lecce, calling the statements “completely and absolutely false, defamatory and libellous.” “The statements tend to, and do in fact, injure, prejudice, and disparage,” they wrote.
His response: Lecce is refusing to apologize or retract the post.
Peter Downard, Lecce’s lawyer, said the statements amounted to “comment a person could honestly make on the facts,” arguing the post supported an inference that the “martyrs” referenced included assailants killed during Hamas’ attack on Israel.
“They related to a subject of obvious interest,” Downard wrote on Dec. 1. “They are not actionable.”
Here’s the full text:
What to watch: No word yet of a looming court challenge — and one is not expected — despite the group’s earlier threat. Lecce’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
A message from Next Campaign:
SCOOP — With a leadership contest looming, the mood was tense — some said “bombastic” — at Sunday’s Liberal executive council meeting.
Amid the scramble, at least one would-be candidate is thinking twice about running at all.
Andrew Boozary, who led in a hypothetical poll testing the race, has yet to rule it out, though some expect he’ll pass on the leadership race to run federally in University-Rosedale. Sharan Kaur, an advisor to Boozary, declined to say much, but described “the disconnect happening at the party level” as “concerning.”
With some movement in the captain’s race, we’ll take you inside a high-tension Liberal executive council meeting. A poll has Torontonians weighing in on the fate of the Billy Bishop Airport. But to start, a cabinet minister is doubling down over an X post described as “defamatory and libellous.”
SCOOP — Energy Minister Stephen Lecce is standing by a post labeling several student groups “hateful,” “anti-Semitic” and “morally degenerate.”
In October, a pair of groups at the University of Toronto Mississauga played co-host to a vigil honouring Palestinian “martyrs,” condemned by one group as “rubbing salt into the wounds of our Jewish learners, staff, faculty, and alumni.”
Lecce said the groups should be “condemned and banned from any campus,” arguing their ideology was “poisonous” and incompatible with “well-established Canadian values.”
As we reported last week, the Muslim Student Association issued a libel notice to Lecce, calling the statements “completely and absolutely false, defamatory and libellous.” “The statements tend to, and do in fact, injure, prejudice, and disparage,” they wrote.
His response: Lecce is refusing to apologize or retract the post.
Peter Downard, Lecce’s lawyer, said the statements amounted to “comment a person could honestly make on the facts,” arguing the post supported an inference that the “martyrs” referenced included assailants killed during Hamas’ attack on Israel.
“They related to a subject of obvious interest,” Downard wrote on Dec. 1. “They are not actionable.”
Here’s the full text:
What to watch: No word yet of a looming court challenge — and one is not expected — despite the group’s earlier threat. Lecce’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
A message from Next Campaign:
SCOOP — With a leadership contest looming, the mood was tense — some said “bombastic” — at Sunday’s Liberal executive council meeting.
Amid the scramble, at least one would-be candidate is thinking twice about running at all.
Andrew Boozary, who led in a hypothetical poll testing the race, has yet to rule it out, though some expect he’ll pass on the leadership race to run federally in University-Rosedale. Sharan Kaur, an advisor to Boozary, declined to say much, but described “the disconnect happening at the party level” as “concerning.”
With some movement in the captain’s race, we’ll take you inside a high-tension Liberal executive council meeting. A poll has Torontonians weighing in on the fate of the Billy Bishop Airport. But to start, a cabinet minister is doubling down over an X post described as “defamatory and libellous.”
SCOOP — Energy Minister Stephen Lecce is standing by a post labeling several student groups “hateful,” “anti-Semitic” and “morally degenerate.”
In October, a pair of groups at the University of Toronto Mississauga played co-host to a vigil honouring Palestinian “martyrs,” condemned by one group as “rubbing salt into the wounds of our Jewish learners, staff, faculty, and alumni.”
Lecce said the groups should be “condemned and banned from any campus,” arguing their ideology was “poisonous” and incompatible with “well-established Canadian values.”
As we reported last week, the Muslim Student Association issued a libel notice to Lecce, calling the statements “completely and absolutely false, defamatory and libellous.” “The statements tend to, and do in fact, injure, prejudice, and disparage,” they wrote.
His response: Lecce is refusing to apologize or retract the post.
Peter Downard, Lecce’s lawyer, said the statements amounted to “comment a person could honestly make on the facts,” arguing the post supported an inference that the “martyrs” referenced included assailants killed during Hamas’ attack on Israel.
“They related to a subject of obvious interest,” Downard wrote on Dec. 1. “They are not actionable.”
Here’s the full text:
What to watch: No word yet of a looming court challenge — and one is not expected — despite the group’s earlier threat. Lecce’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
A message from Next Campaign:
SCOOP — With a leadership contest looming, the mood was tense — some said “bombastic” — at Sunday’s Liberal executive council meeting.
Amid the scramble, at least one would-be candidate is thinking twice about running at all.
Andrew Boozary, who led in a hypothetical poll testing the race, has yet to rule it out, though some expect he’ll pass on the leadership race to run federally in University-Rosedale. Sharan Kaur, an advisor to Boozary, declined to say much, but described “the disconnect happening at the party level” as “concerning.”
With some movement in the captain’s race, we’ll take you inside a high-tension Liberal executive council meeting. A poll has Torontonians weighing in on the fate of the Billy Bishop Airport. But to start, a cabinet minister is doubling down over an X post described as “defamatory and libellous.”
SCOOP — Energy Minister Stephen Lecce is standing by a post labeling several student groups “hateful,” “anti-Semitic” and “morally degenerate.”
In October, a pair of groups at the University of Toronto Mississauga played co-host to a vigil honouring Palestinian “martyrs,” condemned by one group as “rubbing salt into the wounds of our Jewish learners, staff, faculty, and alumni.”
Lecce said the groups should be “condemned and banned from any campus,” arguing their ideology was “poisonous” and incompatible with “well-established Canadian values.”
As we reported last week, the Muslim Student Association issued a libel notice to Lecce, calling the statements “completely and absolutely false, defamatory and libellous.” “The statements tend to, and do in fact, injure, prejudice, and disparage,” they wrote.
His response: Lecce is refusing to apologize or retract the post.
Peter Downard, Lecce’s lawyer, said the statements amounted to “comment a person could honestly make on the facts,” arguing the post supported an inference that the “martyrs” referenced included assailants killed during Hamas’ attack on Israel.
“They related to a subject of obvious interest,” Downard wrote on Dec. 1. “They are not actionable.”
Here’s the full text:
What to watch: No word yet of a looming court challenge — and one is not expected — despite the group’s earlier threat. Lecce’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
A message from Next Campaign:
SCOOP — With a leadership contest looming, the mood was tense — some said “bombastic” — at Sunday’s Liberal executive council meeting.
Amid the scramble, at least one would-be candidate is thinking twice about running at all.
Andrew Boozary, who led in a hypothetical poll testing the race, has yet to rule it out, though some expect he’ll pass on the leadership race to run federally in University-Rosedale. Sharan Kaur, an advisor to Boozary, declined to say much, but described “the disconnect happening at the party level” as “concerning.”
With some movement in the captain’s race, we’ll take you inside a high-tension Liberal executive council meeting. A poll has Torontonians weighing in on the fate of the Billy Bishop Airport. But to start, a cabinet minister is doubling down over an X post described as “defamatory and libellous.”
SCOOP — Energy Minister Stephen Lecce is standing by a post labeling several student groups “hateful,” “anti-Semitic” and “morally degenerate.”
In October, a pair of groups at the University of Toronto Mississauga played co-host to a vigil honouring Palestinian “martyrs,” condemned by one group as “rubbing salt into the wounds of our Jewish learners, staff, faculty, and alumni.”
Lecce said the groups should be “condemned and banned from any campus,” arguing their ideology was “poisonous” and incompatible with “well-established Canadian values.”
As we reported last week, the Muslim Student Association issued a libel notice to Lecce, calling the statements “completely and absolutely false, defamatory and libellous.” “The statements tend to, and do in fact, injure, prejudice, and disparage,” they wrote.
His response: Lecce is refusing to apologize or retract the post.
Peter Downard, Lecce’s lawyer, said the statements amounted to “comment a person could honestly make on the facts,” arguing the post supported an inference that the “martyrs” referenced included assailants killed during Hamas’ attack on Israel.
“They related to a subject of obvious interest,” Downard wrote on Dec. 1. “They are not actionable.”
Here’s the full text:
What to watch: No word yet of a looming court challenge — and one is not expected — despite the group’s earlier threat. Lecce’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
A message from Next Campaign:
SCOOP — With a leadership contest looming, the mood was tense — some said “bombastic” — at Sunday’s Liberal executive council meeting.
Amid the scramble, at least one would-be candidate is thinking twice about running at all.
Andrew Boozary, who led in a hypothetical poll testing the race, has yet to rule it out, though some expect he’ll pass on the leadership race to run federally in University-Rosedale. Sharan Kaur, an advisor to Boozary, declined to say much, but described “the disconnect happening at the party level” as “concerning.”
With some movement in the captain’s race, we’ll take you inside a high-tension Liberal executive council meeting. A poll has Torontonians weighing in on the fate of the Billy Bishop Airport. But to start, a cabinet minister is doubling down over an X post described as “defamatory and libellous.”
SCOOP — Energy Minister Stephen Lecce is standing by a post labeling several student groups “hateful,” “anti-Semitic” and “morally degenerate.”
In October, a pair of groups at the University of Toronto Mississauga played co-host to a vigil honouring Palestinian “martyrs,” condemned by one group as “rubbing salt into the wounds of our Jewish learners, staff, faculty, and alumni.”
Lecce said the groups should be “condemned and banned from any campus,” arguing their ideology was “poisonous” and incompatible with “well-established Canadian values.”
As we reported last week, the Muslim Student Association issued a libel notice to Lecce, calling the statements “completely and absolutely false, defamatory and libellous.” “The statements tend to, and do in fact, injure, prejudice, and disparage,” they wrote.
His response: Lecce is refusing to apologize or retract the post.
Peter Downard, Lecce’s lawyer, said the statements amounted to “comment a person could honestly make on the facts,” arguing the post supported an inference that the “martyrs” referenced included assailants killed during Hamas’ attack on Israel.
“They related to a subject of obvious interest,” Downard wrote on Dec. 1. “They are not actionable.”
Here’s the full text:
What to watch: No word yet of a looming court challenge — and one is not expected — despite the group’s earlier threat. Lecce’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
A message from Next Campaign:
SCOOP — With a leadership contest looming, the mood was tense — some said “bombastic” — at Sunday’s Liberal executive council meeting.
Amid the scramble, at least one would-be candidate is thinking twice about running at all.
Andrew Boozary, who led in a hypothetical poll testing the race, has yet to rule it out, though some expect he’ll pass on the leadership race to run federally in University-Rosedale. Sharan Kaur, an advisor to Boozary, declined to say much, but described “the disconnect happening at the party level” as “concerning.”
With some movement in the captain’s race, we’ll take you inside a high-tension Liberal executive council meeting. A poll has Torontonians weighing in on the fate of the Billy Bishop Airport. But to start, a cabinet minister is doubling down over an X post described as “defamatory and libellous.”
SCOOP — Energy Minister Stephen Lecce is standing by a post labeling several student groups “hateful,” “anti-Semitic” and “morally degenerate.”
In October, a pair of groups at the University of Toronto Mississauga played co-host to a vigil honouring Palestinian “martyrs,” condemned by one group as “rubbing salt into the wounds of our Jewish learners, staff, faculty, and alumni.”
Lecce said the groups should be “condemned and banned from any campus,” arguing their ideology was “poisonous” and incompatible with “well-established Canadian values.”
As we reported last week, the Muslim Student Association issued a libel notice to Lecce, calling the statements “completely and absolutely false, defamatory and libellous.” “The statements tend to, and do in fact, injure, prejudice, and disparage,” they wrote.
His response: Lecce is refusing to apologize or retract the post.
Peter Downard, Lecce’s lawyer, said the statements amounted to “comment a person could honestly make on the facts,” arguing the post supported an inference that the “martyrs” referenced included assailants killed during Hamas’ attack on Israel.
“They related to a subject of obvious interest,” Downard wrote on Dec. 1. “They are not actionable.”
Here’s the full text:
What to watch: No word yet of a looming court challenge — and one is not expected — despite the group’s earlier threat. Lecce’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
A message from Next Campaign:
SCOOP — With a leadership contest looming, the mood was tense — some said “bombastic” — at Sunday’s Liberal executive council meeting.
Amid the scramble, at least one would-be candidate is thinking twice about running at all.
Andrew Boozary, who led in a hypothetical poll testing the race, has yet to rule it out, though some expect he’ll pass on the leadership race to run federally in University-Rosedale. Sharan Kaur, an advisor to Boozary, declined to say much, but described “the disconnect happening at the party level” as “concerning.”
With some movement in the captain’s race, we’ll take you inside a high-tension Liberal executive council meeting. A poll has Torontonians weighing in on the fate of the Billy Bishop Airport. But to start, a cabinet minister is doubling down over an X post described as “defamatory and libellous.”
SCOOP — Energy Minister Stephen Lecce is standing by a post labeling several student groups “hateful,” “anti-Semitic” and “morally degenerate.”
In October, a pair of groups at the University of Toronto Mississauga played co-host to a vigil honouring Palestinian “martyrs,” condemned by one group as “rubbing salt into the wounds of our Jewish learners, staff, faculty, and alumni.”
Lecce said the groups should be “condemned and banned from any campus,” arguing their ideology was “poisonous” and incompatible with “well-established Canadian values.”
As we reported last week, the Muslim Student Association issued a libel notice to Lecce, calling the statements “completely and absolutely false, defamatory and libellous.” “The statements tend to, and do in fact, injure, prejudice, and disparage,” they wrote.
His response: Lecce is refusing to apologize or retract the post.
Peter Downard, Lecce’s lawyer, said the statements amounted to “comment a person could honestly make on the facts,” arguing the post supported an inference that the “martyrs” referenced included assailants killed during Hamas’ attack on Israel.
“They related to a subject of obvious interest,” Downard wrote on Dec. 1. “They are not actionable.”
Here’s the full text:
What to watch: No word yet of a looming court challenge — and one is not expected — despite the group’s earlier threat. Lecce’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
A message from Next Campaign:
SCOOP — With a leadership contest looming, the mood was tense — some said “bombastic” — at Sunday’s Liberal executive council meeting.
Amid the scramble, at least one would-be candidate is thinking twice about running at all.
Andrew Boozary, who led in a hypothetical poll testing the race, has yet to rule it out, though some expect he’ll pass on the leadership race to run federally in University-Rosedale. Sharan Kaur, an advisor to Boozary, declined to say much, but described “the disconnect happening at the party level” as “concerning.”