{"id":101587,"date":"2017-05-09T07:45:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=101587"},"modified":"2017-05-09T07:45:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:45:52","slug":"liberal-candidate-apologizes-to-down-syndrome-groups-for-twitter-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/09\/liberal-candidate-apologizes-to-down-syndrome-groups-for-twitter-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal candidate apologizes to Down syndrome groups for Twitter comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_101588\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101588\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/10942584_1572067803010013_3282814133128477055_n-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101588\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/10942584_1572067803010013_3282814133128477055_n-1.png\" alt=\"A Nova Scotia Liberal candidate who was dropped over comments he made on social media in 2013 is apologizing for his behaviour. (Photo: Nova Scotia Liberal Party\/Facebook)\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/10942584_1572067803010013_3282814133128477055_n-1.png 180w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/10942584_1572067803010013_3282814133128477055_n-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101588\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Nova Scotia Liberal candidate who was dropped over comments he made on social media in 2013 is apologizing for his behaviour. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NSLiberalParty\/photos\/a.1552410404975753.1073741825.1552396404977153\/1572067803010013\/?type=1&amp;theater\">Nova Scotia Liberal Party\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>HALIFAX \u2014 A Nova Scotia Liberal candidate who was dropped over comments he made on social media in 2013 is apologizing for his behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Pictou East candidate Matthew MacKnight issued a brief statement today saying he takes full responsibility for the comments on Twitter and didn&#8217;t intend for them to be derogatory or hurtful.<\/p>\n<p>MacKnight did not reveal the nature of the comments.<\/p>\n<p>But he apologizes to two groups that represent people with Down syndrome, saying \u201cit was an immature comment\u201d that not meant to be malicious.<\/p>\n<p>MacKnight was ousted as a candidate after campaign chairman Chris MacInnes said Monday he was made aware of \u201chighly inappropriate\u201d comments.<\/p>\n<p>MacInnes does not say what the comments were, only that they were unacceptable and run contrary to the values of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Global News linked to a photo of the alleged tweet, which had MacKnight purportedly calling someone an expletive and using the hashtags #downsyndrome and #stupidcustomers on May 28, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX \u2014 A Nova Scotia Liberal candidate who was dropped over comments he made on social media in 2013 is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":101588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[18881],"class_list":["post-101587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-matthew-macknight","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}