Edmonton MP sues the Gateway student newspaper for defamation

Edmonton-Griesbach Conservative MP Kerry Diotte is suing the University of Alberta student newspaper over a pair of articles that he claims have defamed him.
On Nov. 19, Diotte filed a statement of claim against the Gateway Student Journalism Society, which publishes the U of A’s student newspaper.
Diotte takes issue with a pair of articles published on the newspaper’s website earlier this month.
“The plaintiff, Kerry Diotte, asserts that he is not a racist and that (the articl