Over the weekend, the Telegraph-Journal issued a second apology for its story about the Prime Minister’s wafer consumption.
Doug Finley wants to know who might’ve whispered sometthing to the Telegraph-Journal.
CTV’s Bob Fife reported last night that it was a Liberal source who tipped off the Telegraph-Journal publisher to the wafer story.
CBC confirms that Shawna Richer, the Telegraph-Journal’s editor-in-chief, has been fired and James Irving is no longer publisher. CTV says Irving has been “temporarily suspended.” And Canwest reports the Prime Minister was not pursuing the matter legally.
The Telegraph-Journal retracts its wafer story and apologizes to the Prime Minister. And then apologizes to its own reporters.
Glen Pearson thinks we might all move on.
Charlie Lewis investigates the proper handling of a communion wafer.
Harper and the holy host highlights the protocol minefield facing modern leaders
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Noel Kinsella, speaker of the senate, comes to the Prime Minister’s defence.
The Prime Minister’s Office, in response to this report, says Mr. Harper did indeed eat the communion wafer at Romeo LeBlanc’s funeral. The video evidence is inconclusive.
The eulogies have begun at Romeo LeBlanc’s state funeral in New Brunswick. CBC lost their signal for a bit, but is streaming the ceremonies live here.