Wheel of Misfortune: campaign casualties around the country

As with any campaign, there have been some casualties in the lead up to the 2015 election.

We spun the Wheel of Misfortune to take a look at which candidates didn't make it through the campaign. 

Jerry Bance

Bance's Conservative candidacy for the Toronto area riding of Scarborough–Rouge Park ended early this week after he was caught peeing in a coffee cup in a stranger's kitchen.

Bance is a service technician, and had been filmed during a 2012 episode of CBC-TV's investigative series Marketplace.

When called to fix a kitchen sink, the cameras caught Bance answering nature's call into a cup and emptying it into the sink.

A tip to CBC News Sunday night connected the dots, and ended Bance's political career.

"The footage from that day does not reflect who I am as a professional or a person," he said in a statement.

"I deeply regret my actions on that day."

Joy Davies

Joy Davies resigned Thursday after pro-pot Facebook comments she made in 2013 were unearthed.

The former Liberal candidate for the South Surrey-White Rock riding in B.C. had said marijuana reduces family violence and that growing it in a home poses no harm to children.

She also wrote that the Canadian Cancer Society is "another outlet for big pharma."

The Liberal Party said in a statement that Davies's views "in no way reflect" the values or policies of the party, but the incident did put the spotlight back on the Liberals' promise to control and regulate marijuana.

Tim Dutaud

​Dutaud became the second Conservative candidate to be dropped this week over embarrassing online videos.  The former Tory candidate for Toronto-Danforth was identified in prank phone call videos that had been posted to YouTube.

The videos, which appear to have been posted 6 years ago, include him pretending to orgasm while on the phone with a female customer service representative and mocking people with mental disabilities. 

Attempts by CBC News to reach Dutaud on Monday were unsuccessful.

​Ala Buzreba

The former Liberal candidate for Calgary Nose Hill apologized and resigned in mid-August after tweets she wrote as a teenager surfaced and made the rounds online. 

In one tweet from 2011, she told another Twitter user "Go blow your brains out, waste of sperm."

In another she said, "Your mother should have used a coat hanger.

Another tweet read, "Just got my hair cut, I look like a flipping lesbian!"

Buzreba, now 21-years-old, said the tweets "reflect a much younger person" but withdrew her candidacy.

Morgan Wheeldon

​The former NDP candidate for Kings-Hants in Nova Scotia resigned in August over comments he made about Israel. In a now-deleted Facebook post from August 2014, Wheeldon reportedly said Israel intended to "ethnically cleanse the region."

Wheeldon said his words were taken out of context, and claimed to be the victim of a "shameful and dishonest" smear campaign.

​Gilles Guibord

​Guibord was running in the Montreal riding of Rosemont–La-Petite-Patrie after a blog dug up comments he made on the Journal de Montréal's website.

His comments — which addressed First Nations rights and religious attitudes toward women's bodies — were seen by some as sexist and racist.

Any mention of Guibord was removed from the CPC's website.