By Steve Scherer
OTTAWA, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's brownface picture scandal deepened on Thursday as other images of him emerged wearing dark make-up only hours after he had apologized for what he characterized as a racist act at a 2001 costume party.
With less than five weeks to go before a national election, Time magazine published a picture of him on Wednesday in brownface from an "Arabian Nights" party when he was a 29-year-old teacher at a private school in Vancouver. his apology, he also admitted to performing "Day O", a traditional Jamaican song made famous by Harry Belafonte, in brownface during a high school talent show years earlier. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. then published a picture from that performance that was confirmed as authentic by a spokeswoman.
Also, Global News put out a video showing Trudeau again in dark make-up making faces and sticking his tongue out. It was not immediately clear when that video was from.
"We can confirm that it is him and it's from the early 1990s," a Liberal official said of the video without clarifying exactly when the video was shot.
Trudeau was in Winnipeg, Manitoba, for a campaign stop, and he will speak to reporters at an event there at 2:15 p.m. ET. He was spending the morning calling "many" Liberal candidates and community leaders to fully apologize for what he did, spokeswoman Eleanore Catenaro said. L2N26A0L5