Johnathan Simkins
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LETTER: Latest police investigation a witch hunt: former chief
TBNewsWatch
71Mark…in how many of those cases, many of which were re investigated 2,3 and 4 times was initial result found to be incorrect? The answer would be none. I’m curious if you’d like an investigation as to why nearly 500 people have needed to be saved out of that river by cops and firefighters who risked their lives to save them? If First Nation leadership really cared they’d be looking to figure that out.
5- Johnathan Simkins
FWFN blindsided by Kakabeka generating station redevelopment
TBNewsWatch 63Love it. Keep building and ignore the complaints from the peanut gallery
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LETTER: Mayor Boshcoff’s “feelings over facts” approach harms us all
TBNewsWatch 64Mr. Wilson, while your stats regarding homeless individuals who are indigenous is accurate you intentionally or unknowingly ingnore that many of these individuals came here with no housing and become the cities responsibility according to some. This needs to be addressed as we cannot be responsible as a city. We also need to talk about the individuals who have been BCR’d (band council resolution) which kicks members out of their First Nation for various reasons and they are not allowed back. Those individuals come here and again have no where to go. The only way any progress can be made on these issues is if everyone is able to have conversations based on all the facts not just the ones that help a particular side or viewpoint
3- Johnathan Simkins
LETTER: City homeless services expansion and the welfare magnet effect
TBNewsWatch 61When an individual provides examples and facts in support of an argument and all your able to do is accuse him of “limited intelligence” and a baseless accusation of a privileged upbringing you make it very obvious who lacks intelligence between the two of you.
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Report: Trudeau considering resignation or prorogation
TBNewsWatch 59Obviously Trudeau is done but it would be easy to say Jagmeet is worse. Guy has been trying to have it both ways for years now. Props up the government while saying they can’t be trusted. Hope they both get canned
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Child struck by stray ball at Chapples Golf Course
TBNewsWatch 56Glad to hear the boy is going to be ok. The idea that something needs to be done is a little silly. Your fully aware a golf course is right there, of course the chances of something like this happening are extremely remote and the idea that all sorts of protections need to be implemented at a course that has operated for decades under the current setup is silly.
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Zoning amendment request fuels Costco speculation
TBNewsWatch 54While that is true the 400-500 jobs with benefits and pension will all be Canadian
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Wage disparity between emergency services featured on billboards
TBNewsWatch 32I understand that paramedics have dealt with assaults against themselves but to make the statement that they face the same dangers as police is laughable. Yes they respond to the same call but they only enter the scene once police or fire have dealt with the situation. I’m sure their are some examples where that has not been the case but 99.9% of the time they are not dealing with anywhere near the same level of danger and to make that claim is an insult to what police and to a lesser extent firefighters deal with
26- Johnathan Simkins
Officer acted out of frustration when punching man, judge says
TBNewsWatch 55Isn’t it interesting how tbnewswatch frames certain events. It ends the article stating that a separate officer was found for guilty for assault for punching an intoxicated indigenous male but in this incident no race is reported…..why is the race reported in one instance and not the other? Seems again like a certain narrative is being pushed by the media
3- Johnathan Simkins
Are new parking regulations impacting you?
TBNewsWatch 15Call the whambulance. These businesses will be fine. It’s just the typical loud whining crowd in tbay who represent a small minority of people. Welcome to the rest of the world where it costs some money to park
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Forester leaves city due to 'mismanagement'
TBNewsWatch 8Is anyone else wondering how this article came about? This is definitely not standard practice for media to reach out to city employees who have resigned. Also incredibly disingenuous to not provide context to the limb falling on a vehicle, that limb fell as a result of a massive wind storm that rolled through town. Whats the agenda or personal connection here?
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Police say officers, others assaulted in Memorial Avenue store
TBNewsWatch 48Theres that policy at the bottom again. I'm know if the roles were reversed the officer would be named, but it was only an officer that was assaulted so that doesn't merit following a case to its conclusion.
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Trump’s tariffs the most important election issue: poll
TBNewsWatch 29This is exactly why the liberals are in the lead and NDP support has collapsed. The NDP are always pretending they have a chance to win and everyone knows it and they aren’t willing to waste their vote, most if not all of that previous NDP support has gone to the liberals. Same thing with the Bloq in Quebec. The liberal ads are effective showing PP using the exact same language as Trump and showing them back to back. PP hasn’t/wont pivot from his slogans and it isn’t working.
26- Johnathan Simkins
Thunder Bay firefighters awarded wage increases
TBNewsWatch 34I don’t know when it’s going to happen but the firefighters in tbay are absolutely going to be reduced significantly, it’s becoming far to cost prohibitive for the city to pay these salaries +benefits and pension. Adding another paid holiday is just a slap in the face to taxpayers.
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Compassion for homeless underway 'with few resources'
TBNewsWatch 49The guy living in a tent on Riverview for 1.5 years has a cell phone and barbecue….also has turned down indoor housing multiple times….how come no one in the media asks why that’s allowed?
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City considering $4 million for temporary shelter village
TBNewsWatch 49Absolute insanity being proposed here. This is not a municipal responsibility!!!! Many people are coming here with no where to live. A massive failure by both the provincial and federal governments (the feds are responsible for on reserve housing and because of decades of failure our city is dealing with that failure) the funny thing is we have a provincial cabinet minister and a federal cabinet minister from our city both of whom have done absolutely zero on this issue.
3- Johnathan Simkins
Letter: Time to get serious about ending homelessness
TBNewsWatch 45Thank god this guy was soundly defeated last election. He doesn’t have a clue. Spend the money once? Are you kidding me, no where in the world has anyone ever solved homelessness, it has existed for as long as there have been people on earth. The LPH is owned by the province and it is now illegal to involuntarily commit someone to a facility unless a judge allows it, you can’t force someone to help themselves. First Nations have largely washed their hands of the issue once their people end up in Thunder Bay without a place to stay and our local federal minister of indigenous services has been silent, our other provincial minister Kevin Holland has never found an issue he’s not happy giving no comment on and that co timers here. Weak leadership in all 3 levels of government locally at the moment. The onus is on the province and the feds with this issue.
6- Johnathan Simkins
Hajdu 'thrilled' to see city addressing homeless crisis
TBNewsWatch 47So this is a new issue for Hajdu and she’s not aware of there is federal funding available? Seriously? We know 80% of homeless are indigenous, she’s the federal indigenous minister……did anyone ask her what she’s done to this point, which is clearly zero. At least powlowski has the guts to actually take a position, the relationship between those two is hilarious, her ego rivals trumps
4- Johnathan Simkins
LCBO workers fighting to protect public revenue and "good jobs"
TBNewsWatch 25lol benefits, pension. Zero skills required. This is why stuff costs so much in Canada
25- Johnathan Simkins
SIU terminates investigation into Thunder Bay Police
TBNewsWatch 45The cop(s) should be able to sue this guy for putting them through an investigation. Probably doesn't have much but I'm getting so sick of cops being punching bags for criminals.
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