The Winnipeg Free Press ran an article on Saturday about the Lesley Hughes ordeal, but failed to provide some very useful information.
Here’s a quote from the article written by Bruce Owen:
Hughes’ column has been on the Internet for years, but was only brought to light by a local blogger after Hughes and other Liberal candidates [...]

Liberal candidate Lesley Hughes for Kildonan–St. Paul was dropped by party leader Stéphane Dion on Friday.
This comes after an article Hughes wrote following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In the article Hughes suggested that Israeli businesses in the Twin Towers had prior knowledge of the attacks, because they had evacuated the building a week before.
Peter Kent, [...]