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Ex-UCP candidate who says she was branded a racist hopes 'truth can be aired in full' at trial

CBC·Mark Gollom·about 2 months ago
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Caylan Ford is hoping a Calgary courtroom will deliver her justice seven years after her private Facebook messages were leaked to media outlets, a move she says branded her a white supremacist and devastated her life. "I'm very pleased that I was able to finally bring this to trial," Ford, a former candidate for the United Conservative Party in Alberta, told CBC News in an email response. "Although there has been minimal media or public attention, it is a profound cathartic relief that there is finally a venue in which the truth can be aired in full," she said. "I was wrongly defamed and lied about, and suffered very significant harms as a result. And I don't believe that such lies should be allowed to stand." Those "lies," according to Ford and her statement of claim, were published in 2019 by the CBC, the Toronto Star and PressProgress, the news organization of the progressive think-tank the Broadbent Institute.…

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