LEVY: NDP candidate targeted police chief with racial slur
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Andrew’s scandalous slur came in response to a letter Chief Mark Saunders e-mailed to front-line cops the same week in 2016 that BLM staged a sit-in at the Gay Pride parade and a tragic ambush by a lone gunman in Dallas, Texas left five officers dead and nine others injured.
In that letter, the chief expressed his concern for the safety of TPS officers — asking them to continue to “take all necessary precautions.”
In the aftermath of the Pride parade sit-in, he also indicated his concerns with people in the city “who want to drive a wedge between the TPS and the LGBTQ communities” — stating that attacks on the TPS have come “predictably” from those people and are “inaccurate, irresponsible and inflammatory.”
He did not specifically name BLM-Toronto.
In her July 8, 2016 Facebook post Andrew — after stating that Saunders deserved the “coon award” — questioned “who the hell” those people were and seemed to resent the fact that the chief urged his officers to take “necessary precautions.
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In her Ryerson bio, Andrew is described as having a master’s degree in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Toronto and as working on PhD research focusing on women’s body stories — especially those of black women “who identify as fat” living in Toronto.
“Andrew is interested in how some Black women have re/fashioned their intersectional identities across different times and spaces in their lives,” the bio states.
In the September 2016 IN magazine article, Andrew contends that she’s seeing more of an “intersectional approach to addressing body activism” and that body shaming is not a white, heterosexual, college-educated women’s issue–the latter a myth which “informs” funding decisions.
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I would have thought that this was the NDP's election to lose at this point, but many of the candidates people would have to actually vote for might have something to say about that.
I can't recall three worse parties running in a provincial election.