Ontario candidates confront racist slurs on signs, hate on campaign trail

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Marjorie Knight used to knock on doors alone. This Ontario election, her campaign team has decided to always have her canvassing with someone else.

“I had people call the police on me because I was ‘casing’ homes as I was going door to door knocking,” said the Cambridge NDP candidate. “You go up to somebody and they slam the door in your face and tell you that they don’t deal with your kind. Not sure what kind that is.”

Knight, who first ran in 2018, doesn’t want to put herself at risk — she doesn’t know who she