Calgary UCP candidate resigns after report on her comments about race

CALGARY — A United Conservative Party candidate in the upcoming Alberta election has resigned following allegations that she made comments about white nationalists online.

Caylan Ford, who was running in Calgary-Mountain View, says in a statement posted to Facebook overnight that she decided to step down to avoid becoming a distraction in the campaign.

The announcement comes after the website PressProgress reported on what it says was a private Facebook conversation from 2017 in which Ford allegedly spoke about the replacement of white people in their homelands and the collapse of Western culture.