In the end, Toronto’s mayoral election never came down to a left versus right fight. Former NDP MP Olivia Chow won 37 per cent of the vote, squeaking out a victory over second-place finisher Ana Bailão — a candidate so dully centrist, it took a former mayor best known for being boring to breathe life into her campaign.
Kamala Harris entered the record books Monday when an NBC News poll revealed she is the most unpopular vice president in history.
The poll showed 49 percent of registered voters have a negative view of the 58-year-old compared to 32 percent in the positive.
Pierre Poilievre said the prime minister has no business weighing in on New Brunswick’s Policy 713 on LGBTQ students, even as the federal Conservative leader called on Justin Trudeau to “let parents raise kids.”
The policy was designed to protect LGBTQ students in schools. But earlier this year, New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative government made changes that, in part, will no longer require teachers to use the chosen names and pronouns of transgender or non-binary students under 16 without parental consent.
Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death was a suicide with no outside involvement, a Department of Justice report has ruled today after years of rampant conspiracy theories questioning why the notorious, well-connected pedophile was able to take his own life while in custody.
Epstein killed himself in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
He hanged himself using ‘excess’ prison linens which he should never have had.
It’s an ethically fraught scenario that’s becoming more common as the number of Canadians granted euthanasia grows: People pursuing assisted suicide are asking to donate one or more of their functioning organs upon their death to someone they know.
Robbery at a Shoppers Drug Mart in Toronto 😬 pic.twitter.com/esi0l47oFa
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) June 18, 2023
Looting retail outlets is not new in the city, liquor stores were the preferred target a couple of years ago. That seems to be under control now or is simply not being reported any longer.
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned having to to be virtually vetted before being allowed in to a locked down drugstore during “normal business hours”. This was due to the number of raids conducted by local “youths.” It was in a strip mall maybe 1000 yards from Rob Ford’s old home.
Last week I filled up at my local gas station. They had just changed over to pre-pay due to the surge in “gas and dash” incidents.
The demon possessed of the TTC homeless shelter are still being dumped out at Kipling station to wander and scream at all hours.
Chow did not cause this. But the comrade will make it far worse far faster than under the usual apparatchiks of our political class.
By the numbers …
On the more serious side of the numbers, voter turnout was higher for this byelection to select the mayor of Toronto than what we saw in last fall’s municipal vote. In October, just 29% of eligible voters cast their ballots but, in this election, it was up to 39% of eligible voters trotting out to fill in the circle.
Canada’s grocery business is controlled by large players and needs government assistance to encourage new entrants to bring down prices, a report from Canada’s Competition Bureau says.
The report, published Tuesday, is the result of a probe that Canada’s top competition watchdog launched last year, when concern over food prices hit a fever pitch.
The bureau spent months examining many aspects of Canada’s grocery business, which is dominated by three domestic giants — Loblaws, Metro and Sobey’s owner Empire — along with foreign players like Walmart and Costco.
Nothing will come of this. Canada is the land of Milk & Honey – for Oligopolies.
A Planned Parenthood organization has been banned from schools in a Canadian province after children were offered an ‘A to Z’ guide that included descriptions of extreme sex acts.
Planned Parenthood Regina, in Saskatchewan, delivered a seminar to Grade 9 students at Lumsden High School before children were able to take the card game that included a series of explicit terms and definitions.
Some parents complained and the Saskatchewan Education Minister, Dustin Duncan, announced that Planned Parenthood Regina has now been suspended from working in the region’s schools.
Electric cars damage roads twice as much as their petrol equivalents, analysis has shown, as the pothole crisis grows on Britain’s roads.
Analysis by The Telegraph has found that the average electric car more than doubles the wear on road surfaces, which in turn could increase the number of potholes.
The country is suffering from a pothole crisis, with half as many filled last year compared to a decade ago amid an estimated £12 billion price tag to fill them all.
Olivia Chow has been elected mayor of Toronto, CP24 declares, ending almost 13 years of right-leaning rule at Toronto City Hall and becoming the first woman and the first visible minority person to lead post-amalgamation Toronto.
Chow, 66, was the favourite to win the race from the moment she entered and managed to command a decisive lead in the polls, though the race on election night ended up being a photo finish between her and Ana Bailão.
A Florida double-murderer appeared with the word “killer” written on his own teeth in court Monday, where he proceeded to assault his own lawyer.
Joseph Zieler, 61, beckoned his lawyer, Kevin Shirley, over to speak to him after entering court in handcuffs for a pre-sentencing hearing over the murders of an 11-year-old girl and her babysitter.
On June 21, in a hot, crowded courtroom at Old Osgoode Hall in downtown Toronto, the fight between Dr. Jordan Peterson and the College of Psychologists of Ontario played out.
The fight stems from an investigation by the regulator for clinical psychologists into statements Dr. Peterson had made on Twitter and on the Joe Rogan Podcast. The regulator ordered him to participate in a coaching program about professionalism in public comments, at his own expense, and for an indeterminate amount of time. He is now challenging that order for training (or as Dr. Peterson calls it, “re-education”) in a judicial review, which took place in the hearing this week. (A judicial review is when a court reviews an administrative decision, like the college’s decision to order training.)
New evidence of China’s spy balloon programme – including flights over Japan and Taiwan – has been uncovered by BBC Panorama.
Japan has confirmed balloons have flown over its territory and said it’s prepared to shoot them down in future.
China has not directly addressed the evidence presented by the BBC.
US-China relations were thrown into turmoil earlier this year, when an alleged Chinese spy balloon was shot down off the US coast.
Over half of the billions paid out under a corporate subsidy program to support “innovative projects” in Canada will not be recovered, according to a written submission to the Senate national finance committee.
In its submission on June 19, the Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) told senators that more than half of the $7 billion spent under its Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) was “non-repayable.”
OTTAWA — David Johnston has filed his final — and confidential — report on foreign interference to the prime minister, ending his controversial term as special rapporteur.
Johnston had announced his plans to resign the role earlier this month, saying the atmosphere around his work had become too partisan.
The former governor general was appointed to the role in March, as the Liberal government faced increasing pressure to tackle allegations that China meddled in the last two federal elections.
