Online news, media and entertainment company

  A BC Liberal candidate in the  province’s provincial election  is speaking publicly for the first time since a video emerged of her making a  joke at the expense of an NDP rival  widely criticized as sexist. “I am sorry. I am sorry if people were offended, that was not my intent. This was a roast,” Jane Thornthwaite, Liberal candidate for  North Vancouver-Seymour , told Global News on Sunday. “The evening was supposed to be a funny evening. In my particular case, the jokes were out of place, I shouldn’t have done them.” Thornthwaite told Global News she has not spoken to party leader Andrew Wilkinson about the joke, either at the time of the roast or since then. Story continues below advertisement But she has received support form her caucus colleagues, and said while she has to “do better”, she has no plans to step down. Wilkinson did take to Twitter Sunday, saying Thornthwaite was right to apologize to  North Vancouver-Lonsdale  NDP candidate ...