Kevin O’Leary Drops Out of Conservative Leadership Race: Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. O’Leary drops out, will endorse Maxime Bernier
“O’Leary has spent the better part of his relatively short campaign — he entered the race in January — taking jabs at Trudeau, branding the prime minister ‘surfer dude’ and calling his leadership a ‘disaster’ for the country. He has also said Trudeau negotiating with U.S. President Donald Trump is like ‘Bambi versus Godzilla.’
“O’Leary has not left his Conservative opponents unscathed, and, despite his endorsement of Bernier, the two candidates have sparred over allegations of membership fraud and vote buying. The Quebec MP called O’Leary a ‘loser’ after he went public with concerns about vote rigging.”
– CBC
2. Russia’s interference in the U.S. election was just the beginning
“Mike Conaway, the Republican who replaced Devin Nunes as head of the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election, has described his mission simply: “I just want to find out what happened,” he’s said. The more urgent question elsewhere in the world, however, isn’t confined to the past. It concerns what is happening—not just in the United States but in European democracies as well.”
3. Statistics Canada to resume tracking of unfounded sex-assault cases
“Statistics Canada will once again start collecting and publishing data on unfounded criminal cases after a Globe and Mail investigation revealed one out of every five sexual assault allegations goes undocumented because police have dismissed the reports as baseless.
“The agency expects the first results will be available by July, 2018. At that point, it will have been 15 years since Statscan stopped publishing unfounded numbers over concerns that police either were not always using the code correctly – the unfounded designation means no crime occurred or was attempted – or were not reporting the cases to the agency at all.”
4. Jonathan Demme, ‘Silence of the Lambs’ director, dies at 73
“Jonathan Demme, who has died aged 73 from complications from cancer, rose from his colourful if tawdry beginnings under the aegis of the exploitation maestro Roger Corman to become one of the most eclectic, delightful and original film-makers in Hollywood. He also happened to be one of the nicest: the compassionate sensibility that lent his work its warmth and musicality was no put-on. Plainly put, he loved people.”
5. How a mural of Michelle Obama became a lesson on exploitation
“Art is as much about labor as it is about interpretation. It is about who created it and why as well as how we understand the end product. When we forget this, we strip art of its truest power.”
