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Marilyn North Peigan apologized for a number of tweets she posted that she said were “untrue, disrespectful and hurtful,” in a separate Twitter thread shared on Thursday. She said her campaign team wasn’t involved in the posts and she takes full responsibility.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
North Peigan said this is particularly the case after being heavily exposed to Brocket 99 — a comedy audio tape from the 1980s that parodied Indigenous people in Canada and joked about racist stereotypes.Article content On Tuesday evening, North Peigan posted a video clip of Ward 13 Coun. Dan McLean with a tweet alleging he was corrupt and that one of his family members was a corrupt board member for the Calgary Stampede. The clip she retweeted was of McLean responding to a video that appeared to show him mocking Indigenous people.
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