{
  "id": 12962053,
  "title": "B.C. Conservatives drop Victoria-Beacon Hill candidate after offensive social media posts",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/b-c-conservatives-drop-victoria-beacon-hill-candidate-after-offensive",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-08T21:24:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC Canada",
    "slug": "cbc-canada",
    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-conservatives-drop-candidate-for-victoria-beacon-hill-after-offensive-social-media-posts-9.7374798"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Joachim Agou has been dropped as the B.C. Conservative candidate for Victoria-Beacon Hill. Party leader Lorne Doerkson said that \"there is no excuse for this\" after offensive social media posts came to light. The B.C. NDP had called for Agou to be fired over \"absolutely horrific racism.\"",
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    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Global News",
        "title": "Joachim Agou kicked out of BC Conservatives over social media posts",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/joachim-agou-kicked-out-of-bc-conservatives-over-social-media-posts",
        "published": "2026-10-08T20:29:13.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "CBC News",
        "title": "B.C. Conservatives drop candidate after offensive social media posts",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/b-c-conservatives-drop-candidate-after-offensive-social-media-posts",
        "published": "2026-10-08T21:24:02.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}