This Globe and Mail Writer Once Tried to Breastfeed MP Michael Chong’s Child: Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Globe and Mail spikes column about trying to breastfeed MP Michael Chong’s baby ‘to see what it felt like’
“The Globe and Mail has removed a piece from its website in which a longtime columnist claims she once attempted to breastfeed the infant child of Conservative leadership candidate Michael Chong without his or his wife’s consent, and while she was not lactating.
“In her column, titled ‘The joy (and politics) of breastfeeding someone else’s baby,’ Leah Mclaren, 41, said the incident occurred at a Toronto house party when she was “about 25 and did not have a baby – or even a boyfriend.”
2. Maxime Bernier says he’d deploy military as needed to stop illegal border crossings
“Conservative leadership candidate Maxime Bernier says he would dedicate more resources to address the flow of migrants crossing the U.S.-Canada border illegally. And if that doesn’t work, he’d consider temporary measures, including deploying the military to the border.
“Bernier’s comments came after one of his rivals for the leadership, Kevin O’Leary, said in a campaign email Monday he’d use the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause to prevent people from claiming refugee status in Canada after crossing into the country from the United States outside of regular border crossings.”
– CBC News
3. Investors are suddenly realizing the Tump tax cut might not happen
“As Republican attempts to kill Obamacare flamed out spectacularly, investors began rethinking an assumption that caused markets to rally for months: perhaps the Trump administration and its allies in Congress, they suddenly realized, won’t pull off the sweeping tax cuts that many have been expecting.”
4. Weed stocks rally after government announces legalization legislation
“Reports that Ottawa plans to legalize marijuana by July 2018 sent investors into a frenzy.”
5. Silicon Valley’s quest to live forever
“Can billions of dollars’ worth of high-tech research succeed in making death optional?”
