Candidate for Quebec Conservatives apologizes for 2020 post about euthanizing pro-vaccine people
A candidate for the Conservative Party of Quebec is apologizing for online comments he made at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. He wrote that Quebecers in favour of vaccines should be euthanized. Just seven days into the election campaign, several other candidates in various parties have faced pushback and even calls to resign.
CBC News
Published by CurrentWire · First coverage
Compiled by CurrentWire News Desk
Summary based on reporting from CBC News.
In this story
Automated coverage analysis
Generated automatically from the coverage listed on this page. CurrentWire adds no editorial claims.
Coverage
1 publication is covering this story.
How CurrentWire compiled this story
CBC News (www.cbc.ca), a Tier A publisher, filed this report on . CurrentWire published this page 23 minutes later, on .
Signal breakdown
CurrentWire ranked this story 73.5 of 100 in the snapshot this page was rendered from.
- Freshness
- 29.5 of 35
- Source authority
- 20 of 20
- Coverage breadth
- 4 of 20
- Geographic relevance
- 10 of 10
- Story prominence
- 10 of 10
- Velocity
- 0 of 5
Strongest signal: source authority, 20 of 20. How each signal is calculated.
Filed under Health · Canada · News. Topics extracted from this report, with other live CurrentWire stories mentioning each: Quebec (none), COVID-19 (6), Quebec Conservatives (none).
CurrentWire is a news discovery platform. This page summarizes and links to original reporting; full articles, imagery and copyright remain with the publishers listed above.