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Without acknowledging hard truths, Toronto’s traffic czar isn’t likely to get very far

Toronto city hall is looking to hire a “traffic czar.” But like Toronto traffic itself, the hiring process has been agonizingly, painfully slow.

The Star’s Ben Spurr reported last week that after Mayor Olivia Chow and Toronto council voted in April to create the car czar position — formally known as the Chief Congestion Officer — the job posting finally went up last month.

The delay in getting someone into this role is frustrating. The concept actually came from Coun. Brad Bradford, as a platform plank in his 2023 run for mayor, so it’s been more than two years since the idea was first floated. But the foot-dragging is not really surprising. Because deep down, I think even those doing the hiring know that this is a sucker gig.


The solution? Ban cars without saying you want to ban cars! Toronto sucks now it will suck worse forever.

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Canadian Tire says customer info caught in data breach on e-commerce platform

Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. says it has identified a data breach involving personal information belonging to customers, which was stored in an e-commerce database.

The retailer says the breached information belongs to shoppers who had an e-commerce account with Canadian Tire or its other banners, SportChek, Mark’s/L’Equipeur and Party City.

The breached data included names, addresses, emails and birth years, as well as encrypted passwords and in some cases incomplete credit card numbers.

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Hamas Hokey Pokey on Dead Hostages?

It didn’t take long for the Hamas Hokey Pokey to return. This time, the terrorists are dancing with the dead — but Israel refuses to dance along with them.

h/t XC

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No planes available: PM Carney charters private jet to Egypt for historic Mideast peace summit

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney was forced to take a charter flight to Egypt for the historic signing of an agreement to end the Israel-Hamas war because there were no air crews available to fly a Canadian Armed Forces jet.

The trip to Sharm-el-Sheikh was planned on short notice and the CAF members who usually crew flights on the Airbus passenger jets or smaller Challenger jets were deployed elsewhere, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.


It was cheaper than flying a Forces Airbus so there’s that, but Carney had no business there anyway other than as a prop for Trump.

h/t Mauser and Patti Jo

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Trump to Award Posthumous Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk

President Trump will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor, to the assassinated right-wing activist Charlie Kirk in a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday.

Mr. Kirk, who was a crucial organizer of the MAGA movement, was fatally shot on Sept. 10 while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University. Mr. Trump announced his death on his social media site, Truth Social, and the following day, the president said he would award a posthumous medal to Mr. Kirk.

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Oregon Will Spend $700M+ More on Illegals’ Healthcare Than Police

The Democrat-run state of Oregon is reportedly set to spend more than twice as much on a program that provides healthcare benefits to illegal aliens as it will spend on police. This explains so much about the state that contains violence-plagued Portland.


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Jamie Sarkonak: Anti-Israel artist blames ‘Zionist narratives’ for cancelled TDSB workshop with students

On Thursday, the Toronto District School Board had planned to put more than 2,600 students in an Arabic calligraphy workshop run by a niqab-wearing woman who uses her art to call for the obliteration of Israel. It was cancelled just in time, but questions remain: Why was such an event approved in the first place? And why isn’t the school board reviewing its vendor screening procedures?

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AGAR: NDP candidate’s grocery store dream is hard to digest

Worried about the price of groceries? Of course you are. Socialists in Canada are hoping to take advantage of you.

Avi Lewis, a candidate for leader of the federal New Democratic Party, posted a video extolling the virtues of publicly owned grocery stores.

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Chinese CEO Fired European Executives and Transferred Banking Powers to Suspicious Individuals: Inside Europe’s First National Security Seizure of a Chinese-Owned Chip-Maker

THE HAGUE — The Dutch government has released court documents detailing the explosive national-security seizure of a Chinese-owned semiconductor firm, revealing that CEO Zhang Xuezheng fired senior European executives, transferred treasury powers to individuals “with no clear role,” and conducted more than $100 million in suspect financial transactions with Chinese-linked entities.

h/t handy n’ handsome

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