TGCTS Flashback – September 6, 2019 – Wab Kinew 2019 NDP Election Strategy Included Boycott Of Two Women Journalists
, Kinew had already greased the skids underneath his party with his not-an-ultimatum to a town hall on environmental issues scheduled for the evening. And the target of his ire, Winnipeg Free Press columnist Shannon Sampert made sure everyone knew the score.
“Wab Kinew won’t participate on tonight panel on the environment if I am a moderator so I got asked to step down” she told everyone on Twitter at noon. “I guess he didn’t like my columns.”
Sampert, a retired political science professor at the University of Winnipeg, was one of 3 moderators for the Hotel Fort Garry event and was replaced by Molly McCracken of the “non-partisan” Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The west end activist has held many NDP-connected jobs this century, including with the Selinger government as a Health Policy analyst.
It quicky emerged that Sampert wasn’t the first woman that Kinew refused to be questioned by.
TGCTS Flashback – September 4, 2019 – Wab Kinew’s Wages Were Seized For Unpaid Court Fine, Should Disclosure To Voters Be Required?
Originally Published on September 4, 2019 on the original TGCTS Blog Flashback: Wab Kinew’s Wages Were Seized For Unpaid Court Fine, Should Disclosure To Voters Be Required? Winnipeg Police Chief Smyth laughs it up with Danny’s NDP Angels, (R-L) Wab Kinew, Point Douglas MLA Bernadette Smith, Smyth, Nahanni Fontaine (Dateline 2019) Sarah Guillemard, seeking re-election in […]