Unpublished Newswire

Harvesting cannabis in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley as a migrant labourer in 2023, Maria recalls being surprised when her boss invited her and two friends for dinner at his home in the nearby mountains. It was an evening of dancing, drinking and lounging in a hot tub — rare luxuries for the then-28-year-old Mexican who says she lived in a cramped trailer on the farm where she worked. Feeling intoxicated, she says she went to bed alone in a nearby bedroom. Her next memory, she says, was of her boss on top of her, kissing her against her will and doing “many things to my body...

Disrespected. That’s the word that made national headlines this past May, after Nate Erskine-Smith was dropped as a Liberal minister. While the title of Erskine-Smith’s Substack post read, diplomatically, “Congrats to the new cabinet,” media coverage largely zeroed in on a moment in the fourth paragraph: “The way it played out doesn’t sit right and it’s impossible not to feel”—well, you know. How did it play out? The story starts back in December 2023, when, as the member of Parliament for Beaches—East York, Erskine-Smith had just come second to Bonnie Crombie in the Ontario Liberal...