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I’m not sure why Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wrote an entire op-ed in the National Post urging Canadian businesses to fire their “useless and overpaid lobbyists.”
“Often,” he wrote, “the lobbyist doesn’t share the interests of the company, its workers, consumers or shareholders. A good solution would be to fire these lobbyists, stop talking with politicians and start trying to win the support of the population.”
A new job posting for a role at a Toronto Shoppers Drug Mart location is causing a stir this week due to the fact that it boldly seeks a worker to perform what many feel should be paid duties, but for free.
I'm sorry, am I hallucinating or does this LinkedIn post for Shoppers Drug Mart actually say "volunteer"?
This would be the same Weston-owned company that just posted $537 million in profit for the quarter, right? pic.twitter.com/oJBiyCviwK
— Constatine Von Bizantine (@LickVanDyke) May 16, 2024
I don’t hate Shoppers enough.
Catholicism is a broad church, and it appears the Vatican is now embracing lifeforms from beyond Earth. A notice uploaded to the Holy See’s website announces that cardinals will tomorrow hold a press conference discussing how to discern between “apparitions and other supernatural phenomena”.
The English language and grammar rules are racist and correcting someone’s grammar is also racist. pic.twitter.com/jjAkoSSe25
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 16, 2024
Parks Canada will re-open the historic Kingston, Ont., home of Canada’s first prime minister with a new tour examining “racism and sexism” during the Victorian period.
Bellevue House National Historic Site reopens May 18 after closing for the COVID-19 pandemic and then undergoing a $2.1 million renovation.
h/t Mauser
I’m in absolute awe of the sexiness in just one short video.
Whew! Is it getting hot in here or is it just me? ❤️🔥 pic.twitter.com/l5e2QjX4m3
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) May 16, 2024
There is a time and place to be critical of a political leader if you are a news organization. However, the time to be critical of such a person is most definitely NOT just hours after an assassination attempt in which such a person lies in a hospital in critical condition from multiple bullet wounds. And yet the BBC, with the soul of a ghoul, went ahead on Wednesday and did just that hours after the Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico was shot multiple times.
An admitted child sex abuser won’t get to practise law after all — at least for now.
The Law Society of Ontario (LSO) has won a stay in Divisional Court that prevents the lawyer — who, lucky for him, can only be identified by the initials AA — from hanging out a shingle while the legal regulator tries again to overturn the controversial decision that found him of “good character.”
Michelin star awarded to Mexican taco stand for first time
The prestigious Michelin Guide star was awarded to a 10-foot by 10-foot (3-meter by 3-meter) taqueria in Mexico City.
Tacos El Califa de Leon, in the scruffy-bohemian San Rafael neighborhood, is the first such restaurant to receive the prize from the coveted French dining guide.
It is named after the celebrated Mexican bullfighter Rodolfo Gaona, whose nickname in the ring was “El Califa de Leon.”
Tacos? Actually the cost of getting to Mexico means I’ll never get that chance.
Canada is slouching toward the end of the world. Climate scientists have been clear: the only real hope of avoiding climate disaster lies in dramatically ramping up the transition to clean energy by building new wind and solar farms at breakneck speed. But this isn’t happening.
The opening of the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion this month — widely celebrated in the media — reminds us that Canada is still very much in the grip of Big Oil.
That $34 billion expansion was financed by Ottawa and it amounts to a massive public subsidy for the oil industry — at a time when we should urgently be financing renewable energy, not fossil fuels.
The renowned U.S. climatologist James Hansen famously said the oilsands were such a “dirty, carbon-intensive” oil that if they were to be fully exploited, it would be “game over” for the planet.
Wind and solar will power our electric flying cars!
One of the most famous pizza restaurants in Naples has been seized by police amid claims that it was run by a mafia clan, damaging the city’s attempts to shake its reputation for gangsters.
Packed with tourists and flying the flag for Naples’ rebirth, the Dal Presidente pizzeria has been churning out profits for the city’s notorious Contini clan, prosecutors allege.
With a vote on the World Health Organization’s pandemic agreement and international health regulations expected to take place later this month, the UK government has pulled support and Republicans in the United States are pressing the White House to do the same.
In Canada, however, it’s going forward with limited opposition.
Ottawa has “actively participated in the development of the Pandemic Agreement, recognizing the necessity of a robust global health security architecture,” Health Canada spokesperson Anna Maddison told The Epoch Times.
Peru’s government officially classified transgender and intersex people as “mentally ill” on Tuesday. The Telegraph reports that the country’s health ministry said this will allow its public health services to “guarantee full coverage of medical attention for mental health.”
The decree was signed by Peruvian President Dina Boluarte and also defines transsexualism, gender identity disorder in children, dual-role transvestitism, and “other gender identity disorders” as mental illnesses, per Pink News. It will officially change the language in the Essential Health Insurance Plan (PEAS) to classify trans and intersex people as having a mental health disorder.
h/t XC
LGBTQ activist threatens people and suggests she will be violent and use deadly force if you misgender.
Trans violence is violence!! pic.twitter.com/olbTJrMkuw
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 14, 2024
