(CBC) A Winnipeg city council candidate says he takes full responsibility for posting misogynist, homophobic and antisemitic content to social media a decade ago and wants voters to know he has changed.
Omar Kinnarath, a community organizer vying to unseat incumbent councillor Cindy Gilroy in central Winnipeg’s Daniel McIntyre ward this fall, said he is a better person than he was from 2011 to 2014, when he issued tweets including derogatory references to women, gay men and Jews.
While those posts have been deleted, screen-captured images continue to circulate via social media.
Kinnarath says he takes ownership for his actions, repudiates his own statements and understands the harm he caused.
