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Gord Steeves
Candidate in the 2014 City of Winnipeg Mayoral race.
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Steeves addresses wife's Facebook post
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Four days after his wife's past Facebook comments about "drunken native guys" became known, mayoral candidate Gord Steeves did not issue an apology himself. "My wife made the comments she made," Steeves told a throng of reporters and some ...
Mayoral candidate Steeves says his wife is not racist
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Winnipeg mayoral candidate Gord Steeves says his wife is not a racist and that she made comments about aboriginal panhandlers out of fear and anger. Steeves addressed the media for the first time Tuesday since a Facebook post from 2010 was leaked ...
Steeves to stay in mayoral race
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
WINNIPEG-Mayoral candidate Gord Steeves broke his silence Tuesday and announced in spite of a racist Facebook post made by his wife in 2010, he will stay in the race to become Winnipeg's next mayor. “My wife was scared and she was angry and she ...
What Gord Steeves should say today
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Gord Steeves has wasted a valuable opportunity in the days since his wife's reprehensible and ill-considered comments about panhandlers were made public. Mr. Steeves is running for the mayoralty and has a well-organized campaign machine behind him ...
Steeves to address wife's comments
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
After four days of silence, mayoral candidate Gord Steeves plans to speak today about the controversial statements posted by his wife. His announcement in a press release Sunday didn't stop three other leading mayoral candidate from weighing in on the ...
Steeves To Comment Today On Controversy
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
We will finally hear from Mayoral Candidate Gord Steeves following a controversial Facebook posting on his wife's page. The four year old message refers to Aboriginal panhandlers as “drunken native guys” who collect welfare. Lorrie Steeves issued a ...
Steeves to address wife's comments
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
After four days of silence, mayoral candidate Gord Steeves plans to speak today about the controversial statements posted by his wife. His announcement in a press release Sunday didn't stop three other leading mayoral candidate from weighing in on the ...
A vow to open marquee corner
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Bowman said it's also a vision of the downtown that sets him apart from policies put forward so far by mayoral candidate Gord Steeves, which were unveiled last week. Steeves on Friday announced he would spend up to $800,000 for 20 police cadets to ...
Solving the bogeyman problem
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Last week, former councillor Gord Steeves proposed spending up to $800,000 for additional police cadets on downtown streets to deal with the homeless, intoxicated and disorderly. The hits kept on coming Monday when candidate Brian Bowman pledged to ...
Steeves' wife could use a little educating herself
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Now, it's Lorrie Steeves who is the shameful talk of the town. And -- in what some see as guilt by association -- so is her husband, mayoral candidate Gord Steeves, who was a city councillor when his wife let slip her view of aboriginal street people ...
Steeves' wife could use a little educating herself
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Now, it's Lorrie Steeves who is the shameful talk of the town. And -- in what some see as guilt by association -- so is her husband, mayoral candidate Gord Steeves, who was a city councillor when his wife let slip her view of aboriginal street people ...
Solving the bogeyman problem
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Last week, former councillor Gord Steeves proposed spending up to $800,000 for additional police cadets on downtown streets to deal with the homeless, intoxicated and disorderly. The hits kept on coming Monday when candidate Brian Bowman pledged to ...
Solving the bogeyman problem
Tuesday, 12 August 2014
Last week, former councillor Gord Steeves proposed spending up to $800,000 for additional police cadets on downtown streets to deal with the homeless, intoxicated and disorderly. The hits kept on coming Monday when candidate Brian Bowman pledged to ...
Aggressive panhandling in downtown Winnipeg on the decline: U of W researcher
Monday, 11 August 2014
Aggressive panhandling is something many people associate with downtown Winnipeg and Lorries Steeves said it was what motivated the controversial Facebook post that now dominates the headlines surrounding her husband Gord Steeves' bid to be the ...
Homeless respond to Lorrie Steeves racist 'handout' comments
Monday, 11 August 2014
She went on to say, “We all donate enough money to the government to keep thier (sic) sorry assess (sic) on welfare, so shut the f**k up and don't ask me for another handout!" Lorrie Steeves has since apologized for the comments, but Gord Steeves has ...
Calls for mayoral candidate Steeves to address 'drunk native guys' comment ...
Monday, 11 August 2014
More calls surfaced Monday for mayoral candidate Gord Steeves to clarify his views on racially-charged comments made online by his wife four years ago. A Facebook posting from Lorrie Steeves leaked on Friday, in which she had complained about ...
Calls for mayoral candidate Steeves to address 'drunken native guys' comment ...
Monday, 11 August 2014
More calls surfaced Monday for mayoral candidate Gord Steeves to clarify his views on racially-charged comments made online by his wife four years ago. A Facebook posting from Lorrie Steeves leaked on Friday, in which she had complained about ...
Homeless respond to Lorrie Steeves racist 'handout' comments
Monday, 11 August 2014
Gord Steeves' wife Lorrie Steeves came under fire on Friday for comments she made on Facebook in 2010, in which she said she was “really tired of getting harrassed (sic) by the drunken native guys in the skywalks.” She went on to say, “We all donate ...
Bowman would open up Portage and Main to Pedestrians
Monday, 11 August 2014
On Friday rival candidate Gord Steeves said he would crackdown on downtown vagrancy by adding more cadets to the area at certain times of the month. Shortly after that announcement a Facebook post written by his wife exploded on social media. In 2010 ...
Wife's comments likely reflect opinion of mayoral candidate Steeves: Ouellette
Monday, 11 August 2014
A First Nations mayoral candidate suggests comments made by Gord Steeves' wife on Facebook likely reflect those of candidate Steeves himself. Robert-Falcon Ouellette was reacting to remarks made public on Friday from a 2010 posting by Lorrie Steeves.
Steeveses skip Sunday handout
Monday, 11 August 2014
Gord Steeves was a no-show, but the Bannock Lady says he can come another Sunday, when he has time. "I left it open to him, whenever," said Althea Guiboche, known as the Bannock Lady for her practice of handing out bannock, water and whatever is ...
Steeves should be forthright about controversy, Ouellette says
Monday, 11 August 2014
Mayoral candidate Robert-Falcon Ouellette says he feels sorry for fellow candidate Gord Steeves and his wife. Speaking at an announcement outside city hall, Ouellette said today Steeves needs to have what he says is a difficult conversation with his ...
Bowman wants to reopen Portage and Main to pedestrians
Monday, 11 August 2014
The answer to fixing Winnipeg's downtown isn't more police, it's re-opening Portage Avenue and Main Street to pedestrians, says mayoral candidate Brian Bowman. In contrast to Gord Steeves' tough love stance on policing the city's core, Bowman said the ...
Politicians weigh in on whether they are responsible for relatives' comments
Monday, 11 August 2014
WINNIPEG - Some Winnipeg mayoral candidates say it's time for one of their competitors to clear the air over his wife's comments about aboriginal panhandlers. Gord Steeves has refused interview requests since last Friday when comments by his wife ...
Winnipeg Free Press PRINT EDITION
Monday, 11 August 2014
The mantra of "pay less, get more" adopted by mayoral aspirant Gord Steeves sounds like the typical marketing blitz seen on TV so very often (Steeves chooses to go with Loch Ness Monster policy, Aug. 8). Voters aren't that naive. Steeves' strategy will ...
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