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The NDP leader got the start he needed and a Liberal scandal that helped reframe his supposedly hopeless campaign

Christina Gonzales: The reporting of Trudeau’s blackface shed light on one of Canada’s biggest diversity challenges—there aren’t enough people of colour in journalism

Ritika Goel: Let’s stop talking about whether Justin Trudeau is racist and examine the policy platforms of each party instead

In a new poll, Ekos finds the Liberals at first lost a lot of votes, then started to gradually gain them back

Sarmishta Subramanian: If inequality and a fair chance for all are our underlying concerns, the uproar about Trudeau’s brownface photos is just a sideshow

Election Image of the Day: Visible minority supporters are deflecting a lot of the heat on the Liberal leader over his blackface escapades

Andray Domise: It isn’t just mockery or having fun at the expense of offended minorities. It is the continuance of a white supremacist tradition.

Election Image of the Day: Justin Trudeau’s ’brownface’ debacle turned all eyes on the NDP leader. Without question, he rose to the occasion.

A leading academic expert on blackface in Canada says Trudeau’s lapse wasn’t unusual for the time, but this campaign disaster is anything but ordinary