Toronto new car dealers clam up as lots sit empty

It’s a problem many Toronto-area car dealerships don’t appear willing to talk about.

With new car lots becoming more sparse by the week, dealerships contacted by th e Toronto Sun over the past several days either declined comment or refused to return phone calls when asked about inventory shortages.

Got my snow tires on Saturday. The dealer lot had a fairly wide selection of used cars, very little new of anything else, half a dozen pickups, a couple of Vettes in the showroom. A couple of months prior I was in for an oil change and it was pretty much the same. They love my little car, relatively new at 3 years, very low pandemic mileage, keep asking me to sell it to them.

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Barbados to sever its 400-year-old ties with the Crown to ‘leave its past behind’… after taking $500M from China

Today, nearly 400 years after Barbados was claimed for her ancestor King James I by an English ship, the Queen’s role as head of state of the island comes to an end.

The move by the nation’s politicians to turn it into a republic comes more than 50 years after it became fully independent in 1966.

That year, Her Majesty and Prince Philip were greeted by rapturous crowds as they touched down in Bridgetown, Barbados’s capital, for the start of a five-week tour of the Caribbean.

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Joe Biden was involved in a deal with a Chinese giant — and was expecting a 10 percent cut

Hunter Biden and his Uncle Jim were already waiting for Tony Bobulinski in the lobby bar of the Beverly Hilton when he arrived at 10 p.m. on May 2, 2017.

The Bidens had chosen a discreet couch behind a thick marble column where they could see everyone who walked in the front entrance. Joe Biden, who had left the vice president’s office a little more than three months before, was flying into Los Angeles to speak at the prestigious Milken Institute Global Conference and would be joining them at the bar within the hour.

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Jussie Smollett and Ghislaine Maxwell trials begin today

Jussie Smollett goes on trial for fake race attack claim

Chicago’s omnipotent Democratic Party machine won’t be able to help disgraced Empire star Jussie Smollett now.

The 39-year-old actor will be in a Windy City courtroom Monday for jury selection at his trial for allegedly orchestrating a bogus racial attack. Sources have said it was a gambit to get more screen time on the smash show.


Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking trial finally set to begin in New York

Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial is finally set to start in New York, 17 months after the British socialite was arrested for allegedly trafficking minors on behalf of former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein.

Maxwell denies recruiting teenagers as young as 14 for the disgraced paedophile financier to sexually abuse from 1994 to 2004.

Prosecutors say Maxwell, 59, befriended girls with shopping and movie theatre trips, later coaxing them into giving Epstein nude massages at his various residences, during which he would engage in sex acts before giving them money.

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‘Simpsons’ Tiananmen Square episode missing from Disney+ launch in Hong Kong

Disney+, The Walt Disney Company’s online streaming service, has removed an episode of “The Simpsons” in Hong Kong that showed characters visiting Beijing and Tiananmen Square an features one character reading a sign that states “Tien An Men Square: on this site, in 1989, nothing happened,” according to multiple reports.

The episode, “Goo Goo Gai Plan” — which aired during the show’s 16th season in 2005 — also depicted a character heading over to a line of tanks, which is a nod to the well-known Tank Man photograph, taken during the protests that led to a state massacre of demonstrators, reports Bloomberg.

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Twitter’s Dorsey planning to step down as CEO: report

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is set to step down, CNBC reported Monday, news that immediately led the company’s stock to rise 11 percent.

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.

The initial CNBC story was attributed to sources who spoke to the network’s David Farber.

Update: He’s toast…

Oh Fab…

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Ontario reports 788 new Covid cases … Omicron kicks off world tour

Ontario reports 788 new Covid cases … Omicron kicks off world tour

Ontario reports 788 new COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths

Ontario is reporting 788 new COVID-19 cases today as the seven-day rolling average of new infections approaches 800.

Today’s case count is down from Sunday, when 964 new infections were confirmed, the highest single-day tally reported since May. But the number of new infections confirmed today is a substantial jump from the 627 cases confirmed last Monday.


Omicron COVID-19 variant poses ‘very high’ global risk, WHO warns

The heavily mutated Omicron COVID-19 variant is likely to spread internationally and poses a very high risk of infection surges that could have “severe consequences” in some places, the World Health Organization said on Monday.

No Omicron-linked deaths had yet been reported, though further research was needed to assess its potential to escape protection against immunity induced by vaccines and previous infections, it added.


OMG! It’s here! – “Today, the province of Ontario has confirmed two cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Ottawa, both of which were reported in individuals with recent travel from Nigeria. Ottawa Public Health is conducting case and contact management and the patients are in isolation,” read the statement Sunday.

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Washington Post article finds most of “hate speech” detected on Facebook is anti-white and anti-male

After a long discussion about how there are posts and/or comments on Facebook that were racist or expressed bigotry toward minorities and those hosting non-heterosexual biases, the Post article noted that there was an issue because most of the hate speech caught by Facebook’s algorithms caught anti-white or anti-male hate speech.

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Let’s keep things in perspective when dealing with COVID-19

The media and some politicians are once again focussing on case numbers when dealing with COVID-19, despite the fact that public health officials believe hospitalizations and ICU capacity is more important to focus on.

If the focus is on case numbers again, it’s important to keep things in perspective.

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Media panic that new COVID variant could pose ‘significant threat’ to Joe Biden’s agenda

More than a year removed from Biden’s promise to eradicate COVID, cases of the virus are spiking once again, and Biden has even enacted a new travel ban to eight African countries amid fear that the new “Omicron” variant could lead to another wave of cases. Biden, then, has not ended the pandemic, nor has his administration implemented a plan to stop the pandemic like he promised.

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Canadian home prices have risen 70 percent or by $300,000 since Justin Trudeau took power in 2015

In his first campaign to become Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau promised a lot of things.

One of these was affordable housing.

That was in 2015.

Trudeau went on to win his first term as prime minister and with a majority government to boot.

As for affordable homes, the opposite happened.

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