‘Ontarians can be the judge:’ Taxpayers group wants grocers to sell alcohol during LCBO strike

LCBO workers have now been on strike in Ontario for a full week and at least one group says it might be time for the government to consider allowing other retailers to sell spirits.

Jay Goldberg, who is the Ontario Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, held a press conference outside Queen’s Park on Friday to call on the Ford government to consider opening up alcohol sales to grocery stores and other private retailers during the labour disruption, calling it the “perfect opportunity” to evaluate the LCBO’s current monopoly on spirit sales.

Our booze distribution laws are parochial. I don’t blame the LCBO staff for fearing job loss but times change.

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Nothing Better To Do? 360 German Police Investigations Over Anti-Migration Song

Official figures show that German police have launched a minimum of 360 separate investigations into the singing of a right-wing rendition of DJ Gigi D’Agostino’s “L’amour toujours”—or, with the new lyrics, “Ausländer Raus!” (Foreigners Out)—since last October. The figures do not include the states of Bavaria and Saxony.

The song first came to prominence when it was sung in a viral video by young German partygoers in May, resulting in participants being fired and facing up to five years in prison, courtesy of tough hate speech legislation.

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Conservatives would scale back, defund supervised drug consumption sites: Poilievre

Supervised consumption sites are just “drug dens” that a future Conservative government would not fund and seek to close, Pierre Poilievre said Friday.

During a visit to a park near such a site in Montreal, Poilievre said he would shutter all locations near schools, playgrounds and “anywhere else that they endanger the public.”

“Radical bureaucrats don’t have the right to open these drug dens anywhere they want,” he said.

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Jack Mintz: Federal employment bloat costing taxpayers at least $10 billion annually

Buried among the many tables in Statistics Canada’s June employment report are data on public sector employment: federal, provincial and local employees hired by departments, agencies, hospitals and schools, including universities and colleges. As of June, 4.412 million workers were public employees, representing 21.5 per cent of Canada’s workforce. That is an astonishing 972,000 more (28.3 per cent) than in 2014, when 3.439 million Canadians were working for governments. And the numbers don’t include contracted services.

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Biden DHS Panel Focused on Perceived Terror Threat from Pro-Trump, Religious Americans, Meeting Notes Show

A now-shuttered intelligence expert panel convened by the Department of Homeland Security focused its domestic-terrorism prevention discussions on supporters of former president Donald Trump, religious Americans, and members of the military community, according to a tranche of newly released internal documents.

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Left-Wing ‘Civil Rights’ Groups Suggest It’s Racist To Keep Foreigners From Registering To Vote

Self-proclaimed “civil rights” groups signed a letter suggesting a bill that keeps foreign nationals from registering to vote in U.S. elections is a racist attempt “to elicit irrational fear of the growing number of citizens of color.”

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights published the letter Tuesday, arguing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act – which requires proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections – “seeks to intimidate members of immigrant communities and communities of color.”

Why else do you think we have open borders in the US and Canada.

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The Kamala transition

Kamala Harris is the de facto abortion czar for the Biden administration.  While discussing the topic, she noted, “So I think it’s very important, as you have heard from so many incredible leaders for us at every moment in time and certainly this one, to see the moment in time in which we exist and are present, and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past, but the future.”  These words may be enshrined in the Democrat canon alongside the rhetorical brilliance of Bill Clinton.  When asked if he had sex with that woman, he eloquently concluded, “It depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.”

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The sinister truth about the ‘Gaza independents’

The recent UK General Election was marred by intimidation and harassment. ‘British politics must soon wake up to what happened at this election’, said Shabana Mahmood, Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood. Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, said that this was the ‘worst election I have ever stood in’. Even before the election was announced and campaigning had kicked off, now deputy prime minister Angela Rayner spoke in February of being too afraid to leave the house.

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The Democrats’ No-Win Scenario

President Biden’s high-stakes press conference at this week’s NATO summit was a triumph—for his challenger, former president Trump.

Why? Because Biden’s performance did nothing to resolve the Democratic Party’s dilemma over his status as its 2024 presidential candidate. The press conference supplied Biden’s internal critics with ammunition against his candidacy, such as when he misidentified Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump.” But Biden’s answers on foreign-policy questions were also strong enough to reassure, at least for the moment, his allies within the party. The result is that Biden lives to fight another day as the Democrats’ presumptive nominee.

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The Pandemic Excuse for a Corporatist Coup

We’ve just come across a document hosted by the Department of Homeland Security, posted March 2023 but written in 2007, that amounts to a full-blown corporatist imposition on the U.S., abolishing anything remotely resembling the Bill of Rights and Constitutional law. It is right there in plain sight for anyone curious enough to dig.

There is nothing in it that you haven’t already experienced with lockdowns. What makes it interesting is the participants in the forging of the plan, which is pretty much the whole of corporate America as it stood in 2007. It was a George W. Bush initiative. The conclusions are startling.

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Former U.S. Muslim Brotherhood Leader Confirms: The ‘Islamophobes’ Were Right All Along

For years, national security experts and freedom activists have sounded the alarm about Muslim Brotherhood activity in the United States, only to be tarred and dismissed as hysterical “hatemongers” and “Islamophobes.” Now, however, an internationally prominent former Brotherhood activist has confirmed the warnings. Is he, too, a “hatemonger” and “Islamophobe?”

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‘Rust’ Case Against Alec Baldwin Is Dismissed Over Withheld Evidence

SANTA FE — The involuntary manslaughter case against “Rust” star Alec Baldwin was dismissed by a judge Friday after the actor’s defense attorneys raised new questions over how New Mexico law enforcement officers and prosecutors handled evidence.

The decision ends a nearly three-year-long ordeal for the “30 Rock” and “Hunt for Red October” star, which began in October 2021 when he accidentally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a prop revolver during a rehearsal for the low-budget western.

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BOWYER: Trudeau gets it wrong on young voters (surprise, surprise)

“If You Are Not a Liberal When You Are Young, You Have No Heart, and If You Are Not a Conservative When Old, You Have No Brain.”

This oft-quoted saying, frequently misattributed to Winston Churchill, actually has a complex history with no definitive source. Its essence, however, has been expressed by various thinkers over the centuries, reflecting a common perception about political leanings across age groups.

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Chris Selley: Welcome to Canada, where police stigmatize factual reporting about residential schools

Does the RCMP want the truth? Can it handle the truth? The questions present themselves thanks to a bizarre entry in the Mounties’ latest “environmental scan” of ostensible risks to Canada’s security — everything from climate change to artificial intelligence, foreign conflicts and barriers to reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

Under the umbrella of “socio-cultural” risks, we find an entirely false allegation against the National Post with respect to an alleged article “concerning increase in residential school denialism.”

The RCMP is run by lunatics and can no longer be trusted.

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Canadians must face a difficult truth: Our military needs to prepare for war

Canada’s plan to buy 12 new submarines, announced during the recent North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Washington, may have eased the pressure on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau amid criticism from Canada’s closest allies that it has become a freeloader in the alliance.

Going into the summit, Canada was the only NATO member without a clear plan to meet its commitment to spend 2 per cent of its economic output on defence. While the Trudeau government has taken important, if belated, steps toward this goal, Canada is still years away from reaching the target – the goal is by 2032, Mr. Trudeau said on Thursday – unlike the 23 NATO members that will do so in 2024.

They had best postpone hostilities. Few will volunteer to fight under Trudeau.

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