June 2, 2025
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#1168 Scoop: Cabinet Minister “Harassed” and “Humiliated” Employee
  It made the media probably the next day, and then shit hit the fan. -“Laura”
Jesse Brown
Host & Publisher
Julian Abraham
Reporter
Bruce Thorson
Senior Producer
Caleb Thompson
Audio Editor
max collins
Director of Audio

The election is done and dusted. Votes cast, tallied, and 343 newly minted MPs are on the job. But even though we, the media collectively, tried our best to vet everyone, some things slipped past us.

There’s one candidate that we at Canadaland did not vet. That candidate won.  And then she was named to Cabinet. She is now a federal minister. Only then did we get a tip about her. A tip that did in fact turn up information about her that was not yet known but which should be known.

Julian Abraham (Reporter

Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), max collins (Director of Audio), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher)

Fact checking by Max Collins

Additional music by Audio Network

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Further Reading:

Facebook Post Highlighting Kyle Dispute

RRC Changing Student Survey After Concerns raised over ‘offensive’ questions – Global News

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