Canada isn’t the United States. Because of how the laws work up that way, they can enact gun bans, something that really isn’t likely to hold up down this way.
Yet there are those who will continue to try and do just that.
Link to Star Article – ‘A bloody record:’ The dark history of the gun model used in the Innisfil shooting
This is fun! – ‘A bloody record:’ The dark history of Kumquats
Did Justin Trudeau need the controversial Emergencies Act to stop the ‘Freedom Convoy’? A judge will hear the arguments for and against this week
OTTAWA — The shock waves — political, legal and historical — from the self-styled “Freedom Convoy” have crashed through Canadian society for more than eight months.
And they’re about to surge again.
On Thursday, long-anticipated — and delayed — public hearings are set to begin for the independent judicial inquiry tasked with probing what happened during those weeks last winter, when anti-government protests occupied the streets around Parliament Hill, blockaded key border crossings, and peppered Canadian politics with frustration, conspiracy theories and COVID-19 misinformation.
Pierre Poilievre a rising star for the world’s far right
Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones recently said he’s a big fan of Poilievre, calling him part of a global movement of far-right leaders.
You can’t get much lower — or more vile — than Alex Jones.
The far-right American radio host and conspiracy theorist is back in a Connecticut court this week, facing his second defamation trial over his “hoax” lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012.
But the trial hasn’t stopped Jones from hosting his regular Infowars show and website that together have millions of followers in the U.S. and around the world, including in Canada.
Just last week, Jones told his audience that he’s a big fan of Pierre Poilievre, calling him part of a “rising” movement of far-right leaders “all over the world.”
Meanwhile Trudeau has met and been photographed with child molesters, rapists, terrorists and all manner of deviants that make up the LPC family.
One of whom is being sentenced for sex assault today.
As the legal battle for control of the company which publishes the Toronto Star heads to court Monday, Star publisher Jordan Bitove sent a memo to staff vowing to protect the paper and addressing the allegation that NordStar is in default on a credit agreement.
“I have taken steps to defend against any adverse consequences that could arise from any steps taken by our lender, as a consequence of Mr. Rivett’s actions,” wrote Bitove, who’s battling Paul Rivett’s attempt to dissolve NordStar Capital, the company the pair created two years ago to buy Torstar.
Rivett didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.
A legal battle between the owners of media properties including the Toronto Star is heading to court.
A hearing is scheduled for Monday morning in Ontario Superior Court over a dispute between Paul Rivett and Jordan Bitove, who purchased Torstar Corp. in 2020 for $60-million. Nordstar Capital Inc., in which Mr. Rivett and Mr. Bitove are equal partners, and which controls all of Torstar’s assets, is in breach of a credit facility, according to court documents. The two partners are at odds over how to address the debt.
Interesting fight ahead. The Star’s finances are not healthy.
… The latest example of Putin’s alleged deviousness has to do with leaks in an undersea Russian gas pipeline that traverses the Baltic.
The pro-Ukraine side blames Russia. Moscow, they say, is responsible for deliberately causing the leak.
Why would Russia sabotage its own pipeline? The pro-Ukraine side provides no coherent explanation beyond the belief, expressed as fact, that Putin is irrationally evil.
By definition, these people say, Russia is playing a dangerous double game. It cannot be treated as a normal country.
This is very odd coming from The Star
The union representing workers at Torstar Corp. said it was “blindsided” by news of a court application to wind up the parent company, which has put the future proprietorship of the firm’s assets in doubt, including the Toronto Star.
Randy Kitt, director of media for Unifor, said the union had no advance notice a battle was under way between Paul Rivett and Jordan Bitove, who purchased Torstar in 2020 through a newly formed company called NordStar Capital Inc., in which they are equal partners.
Different priorities of the two owners of Torstar, which runs the Toronto Star, one of Canada’s largest newspapers, and a host of smaller papers, became obvious not long after they bought the media giant.
Torstar employees said Jordan Bitove started showing extraordinary emotion at meetings and staff gatherings when speaking of journalism’s mission and responsibility.
Torstar owners ‘deadlocked’ in feud over direction of company including Toronto Star
NordStar Capital Inc. co-owner Paul Rivett is seeking a court order to wind up the company after a breakdown in his relationship with business partner Jordan Bitove, raising uncertainty about the control of Torstar Corp. and the Toronto Star newspaper.
Mr. Rivett detailed the significant rift with his partner in an application filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on September 1, alleging Mr. Bitove thwarted business plans they had agreed to, ignored proper corporate governance, and attempted to sideline him. “There is complete deadlock between Rivett and Bitove,” the application states. “They can no longer work together.”
Ismael was just 17 when I told the story that made him a hero in the eyes of the world. Years later he made a shocking revelation
…. What happened next plays out in dramatic detail in the film — but it’s here, in the Star, where Ismael’s story first became public, that I need to correct the record first.
Ismael Abdulle wasn’t exactly who he had told me he was that day we first met. He told me now what had really happened. Al-Shabab had indeed kidnapped him, but not because he had resisted their recruitment. Instead, Ismael was trying to rob people at the local market when a couple of al-Shabab members came up and asked if they could see his gun. He gave it to them; they turned it on him, and said he was a thief and would be punished.
A lot of time, money and goodwill were wasted on this thief but the Star reporter can’t help but remark how clever he was for pulling it off.
The grievances of conspiracy theorists and “Freedom Convoy” supporters have cast a long shadow across Canadian politics in 2022 — one that hangs over the capital as Parliament returns from its summer recess.
OTTAWA — Anger, delusion and distrust: ingredients for a troubled democracy — and you can find all three in a darkened shed behind the deconsecrated church of St. Brigid’s.
One morning in late August, Brian Derksen strode into that shed with his little dog, Eli. Derksen wore a leather jacket, and the sunglasses pushed into his grey hair had bright orange flames on the armbands.
By now, the 59-year-old with the gruff voice is recognizable as a proud holdout of the so-called “Freedom Convoy” protests that clogged the streets around Parliament Hill last winter. Having dubbed himself “the trucker that never left,” Derksen is a fixture of the movement’s remnants in the capital, a small but chippy group that has settled into a contested tenancy of a historic former Catholic church in Ottawa’s Lowertown.
The Star is working hard today to make sure you know the Convoy=Poilievre=Hitler but worse!
MONTREAL — Until last Tuesday, Richmond-Arthabaska MP Alain Rayes was one of the Conservative party’s best-known and most influential members in Quebec.
Before spending the past six months in a leading role in Jean Charest’s leadership campaign, he had twice served as Quebec lieutenant, first for Andrew Scheer and more recently for Erin O’Toole.
In the last three elections, he bucked the Quebec trend by winning a riding that boasted little previous conservative history.
It seems no amount of wealth disparity or empirical evidence can sidetrack Poilievre from his mission to make “tax” a four-letter word.
When Pierre Poilievre says “no new taxes,” he means no new taxes for the rich.
In his first address to the Conservative caucus, Poilievre made it clear he’s returning the party to a hard-line, anti-tax agenda. Matched with his proclamation of being on the side of workers and seniors, the hypocrisy is striking.
The Star is on a rage bender.
For better or worse, becoming the Conservative leader means Pierre Poilievre no longer controls the conversation
OTTAWA — Two different podiums, two very different days for newly minted Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre as he grasps the reins of power over his party.
In a sweeping speech paying tribute to Queen Elizabeth II in the House of Commons on Thursday, Poilievre confidently held the podium placed onto his desk.
Blackie’s Star has channeled Alex Forest declaring they won’t be ignored. Poilievre should treat them like shit and watch out for his pets.
Give Pierre Poilievre credit for running one of the most successful political leadership campaigns in Canadian history.
His overwhelming victory in the Conservative leadership race in which he captured nearly 70 per cent of the votes on the first and only ballot is a clear sign of his strategic smarts, his ability to energize his followers and of his team’s organizational skills in signing up hundreds of thousands of new party members.
