Senator Lynn Beyak
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‘Divisive and unacceptable’: Sen. Lynn Beyak apologizes for racist Indigenous lettersThe letters she received and published online, which were in support of Canada's residential school system, also included suggestions that Indigenous Peoples and their culture were inferior.CanadaFeb 25, 2020
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Métis leader says Sen. Lynn Beyak should resign for claiming to be IndigenousThe reported comments were made when Beyak identified herself as Metis and reasoned this was because her parents adopted an Indigenous child, who became her sister.CanadaFeb 4, 2020
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Ontario Sen. Lynn Beyak should be suspended again: ethics committeeLynn Beyak's colleagues ousted her from the upper chamber temporarily last spring after condemning as racist several letters she had posted to her website.CanadaJan 31, 2020
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Racist letters about Indigenous Peoples removed from Sen. Lynn Beyak’s websiteSenate officials erased the letters posted online after Beyak refused to do so herself.Sep 24, 2019
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Lynn Beyak suspended from Senate after refusing to remove racist letters from websiteOntario-based Sen. Lynn Beyak has been suspended from the Senate after failing take racially charged letters about Indigenous People on her website.CanadaMay 9, 2019
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Lynn Beyak should be suspended for refusal to remove ‘racist’ letters, ethics committee urges SenateThe committee's report also says the Senate administration should be directed to immediately remove five letters from her website if she won't remove them herself.CanadaApr 30, 2019
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Lynn Beyak’s ‘racist’ letters are still online — a week after she was ordered to remove themThe letters, which Beyak posted on her official government website, were called racist by Senate ethics officer Pierre Legault.CanadaMar 29, 2019
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Sen. Lynn Beyak defends racist letters as ‘free speech,’ attacks Andrew Scheer for ousterSen. Lynn Beyak, who was ousted from the Conservative caucus last week over racist letters she posted to her parliamentary website, is doubling down in her own defence and blasting Andrew Scheer as "inexperienced" and hampered by "political correctness."CanadaJan 8, 2018
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Andrew Scheer removes Sen. Lynn Beyak over ‘racist’ letters about Indigenous peopleScheer removed Sen. Beyak from the Conservative National Caucus following a Global News report which found Beyak's website to have published letters containing language offensive to Indigenous people.CanadaJan 4, 2018
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London-area Indigenous group: Sen. Beyak resignation ‘best-case scenario’ but ‘doubtful’As mayors of some of Canada's biggest cities call for the resignation of a controversial senator, the head of a local advocacy group says that's the best case scenario, but unlikely.PoliticsSep 15, 2017
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