#michael chong

This was an actual column in the Globe and Mail. It was retracted within 30 minutes of publishing and is not on the Globe’s site anymore, only available via the web archive.

In which a columnist claims she, at the age of 25, childless and single, walked into a room in a house party - with no one else present - and found a baby.

And then decided she was going to try and breastfeed it. Without lactating, at the time.

And then the baby’s (supposed - wait for that) father, Michael Chong, presently running to be leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, walks in. He gave her a look, said hi, and asked to take his son and left. By the time she got back downstairs (she’d been looking for the bathroom, according to the story), he and his family were gone.

BUT HERE’S THE THING:

The columnist, Leah McLaren, was 25 in 2000.

Michael Chong’s eldest child, in 2017, is 12 years old.

He saved someone else’s baby from being “breastfed” by a weird drunk lady at a house party.

How this got published, I do not know.

w..what?

Leah McLaren's strange admission was included in a since-deleted column published online last Wednesday. She described attending a house party in her mid-20s and finding the baby alone in a bedroom, next to a baby monitor.

McLaren said she picked up the baby boy and realized that he was hungry.

"And I of course wanted to give him what he wanted," she wrote. "The only problem was, I had no milk. But would it be so bad, I wondered, if I just tried it out – just for a minute – just to see what it felt like?"

Not a story that you see everyday

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Submitted by @randomcanadiancitizen.

Link to the deleted article:

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4. A Globe and Mail columnist's encounter with Michael Chong's baby

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If cleanliness is next to godliness, Michael Chong is all-powerful — at least in Guatemala.

The Conservative MP and leadership contender has become the poster boy for spotless public washrooms in the Central American country.

His larger-than-life, smiling visage has been spotted gracing a large poster outside a Guatemalan washroom.

The poster announces a "special service" for men: sanitary and hygienic bathroom facilities.

The poster was spied by a visiting Canadian, Bailey Greenspon, who tweeted a photo that's provoking hilarity on Parliament Hill.

Chisholm Pothier, communications director for Chong's leadership campaign, says in a tweet that even Guatemalans think Chong is special; "you can too Canada."