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‘People are united’: Patty Hajdu on Canada’s response to looming U.S. tariffs
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40What a clown. Do your job, recall parliament and stop leaving our nation flapping in the wind. It's not Canada's job to sit on the sidelines while your party sorts out it's internal dramas. You've got some nerve acting like you're "proud" of anything that's going on right now.
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'This generation's Cher', drag night to celebrate Lady Gaga
TBNewsWatch 43This is exactly where this sort of thing belongs. In an adults only venue. Have at it. Why Wiggins feels the need to be in front of children in public spaces with an adult fetish is beyond the common sense marker for life, but an adult venue should be looked at as fully acceptable. You want to put your fetish on full display, do it behind a bouncer who is carding people. If it had stayed like this, nobody would have ever had a problem with drag shows. God knows nobody cared before it started getting forced down everyone's throat.
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Tenant who owes almost $10,000 gets a deadline for payment
TBNewsWatch 52It's nice to see the tenant board standing up for landlords after all this time watching tenants get away with figurative murder. If this continues, maybe more people will be willing to become landlords which would result in more availability of housing. Absolutely nobody wants to rent anything to anyone with the laws allowing tenants to avoid evictions for years. Good job, tenant board!
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Consumer carbon tax cancelled, gas prices plummet
TBNewsWatch 39Let's be clear about this. The tax has not been cancelled. It's still 100% on the books,. All they did was lower the effective rate of the tax to 0%. This is obviously great, but let's not pretend that the tax is gone. It's just as easy for them to raise it right back to where it was whenever they want. I'll give it to them that we all need this break, but we shouldn't be fooled into thinking that they have somehow cancelled it.
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Federal funding announced for harm reduction, addictions support initiatives
TBNewsWatch 46I cannot believe that our tax dollars are now being used to quality check illegal drugs being used by addicts living in tents. Is there no new low that this Liberal government won't hit? Not a new treatment centre. Not more cops to take the drugs off the street. Not those actual aids, but a quality control setup so the addicted can carry on using. This country is truly upside down.
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Hajdu maintains seat at Liberal cabinet table
TBNewsWatch 38Gross. Just gross. This smug piece of work can't get booted out of office quickly enough.
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Federal funding announced for harm reduction, addictions support initiatives
TBNewsWatch 40Not a word? You can't buy a pack of smokes without seeing 5 cancer warnings. Tobacco advertising is extremely restricted. Tobacco is taxed at levels way above the norm for consumer products. Smoking is illegal near doorways. No smoking indoors in public. Restrictions on volumes allowed to be transported inter-provincially and internationally. I don't even smoke and I can see how heavily restricted it is. You must be too young to remember the 1990s and before.
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Powlowski would support prorogation to pick new leader
TBNewsWatch 27Never forget that this clown of a candidate has had the back of their party leader throughout the carbon tax debates, the billions sent to Ukraine and Africa, the gun buyback legislation, the "safe" injection sites, the free narcotics for addicts, the fake housing initiatives, the DEI initiatives, the freezing of private bank accounts and criminalization of citizens who disagreed with their leader, the vaccine mandates, et al. Never forget who these Liberal MPs are in their hearts. They've all been right there, in lockstep, during the denigration of our nation.
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Report: Trudeau considering resignation or prorogation
TBNewsWatch 19If you haven't seen Poilievre offer solutions, @JEdinburgh , it's because you aren't even trying to look. Lazy assumptions like that are why Thunder Bay has been buried in Liberal funk for as long as it's existed.
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Brian Hamilton to run for Liberals in provincial election
TBNewsWatch 23He's got Shelby Ch'ng derangement syndrome. Can't wait to see Hajdu stumping for him and the reception that THAT receives in Thunder Bay.
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Candidate profile: Judith Monteith-Farrell
TBNewsWatch 21The party of endless handouts and social pity parties. Absolutely no thank you.
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McIvor Court residents scared to leave their homes
TBNewsWatch 30These people (many being seniors and many others with actual, legitimate disabilities) are living on social assistance, in public housing. Exactly what changes do you suggest they are able to make? A senior on a fixed income can't come up with a $3000 deposit to move into a private apartment.....let alone the $1800/month it costs to rent a place. I drive by this place all the time and these folks are in no position to "make changes in life" in a way that the majority of the city might be able to. Maybe get some perspective on the situation before dumping on people who are just trying to survive.
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'We are all human beings,' man says after experiencing a hateful act
TBNewsWatch 22What? So, by that logic, the food service industry was completely unable to survive until Indian international students came here. What utter nonsense. Businesses can get wage subsidies from the government of up to 60% when they hire immigrants. THAT is why you see businesses staffed by immigrants and not Canadians. THAT is why Tim Horton's is so full of immigrant workers. It's not because Canadian students aren't taking the jobs. Canadian students are up to 60% more expensive so nobody hires them.
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People still living in encampments as temperatures hit -30 C
TBNewsWatch 27And who do you expect is going to supervise these "homeless" people while they are in the church basement or not for profit building? They are to be trusted to stay alone and leave the place as neat and tidy as they found it? Doubtful. Are we now expecting social workers to spend the night? Cops to stop any damage from being done? You can't just toss people into a building. What the city OUGHT to do is give them a job in exchange for free shelter. They are perfectly capable of city cleanup work and it would offset the cost of the shelter.
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TBDSSAB says only nine individuals are living in tents
TBNewsWatch 27And that's on them. If they choose a few possessions over a safer, warmer place to stay, and a chance to start getting their feet back under themselves, then it isn't the taxpayer's responsibility to cater to them.
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Court issues $46,000 in fines and surcharges for illegal hunting
TBNewsWatch 27This is more like it. It's about time some serious fines started getting handed out. Now let's start handing them out to EVERYONE who gets caught mistreating our wildlife populations. Canada is Canada, in part, because of the high level of respect we show our wildlife. Those who choose to abuse it should be held to account at the highest possible level.
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Local lawyer acclaimed NDP candidate for Thunder Bay-Superior North
TBNewsWatch 18Annnnnnnnnnd, it took right up to the second quote in the article for her to start talking about more handouts. lol Typical NDP. Everyone gets everything. It's no wonder that they are showing at near non-party status in the national polls.
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Brian Hamilton to run for Liberals in provincial election
TBNewsWatch 14No city councilor who supported/promoted/endorsement drag queen story hour at our public libraries deserves anyone's vote. Never mind the spending of city tax dollars on rainbow crossings. These sorts of moves are indicative of a lack of public representation. Those things, love them or hate them, were not liked/wanted by the majority of residents and therefore should never have gone ahead. Council's job is to represent the population, not their own beliefs. To think that he will act any differently in a different level of politics is foolishness. We caan do a whole lot better.
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Chrystia Freeland resigns as finance minister criticizing ‘costly political gimmicks’
TBNewsWatch 20Anyone in tis town who votes Liberal deserves every bit of financial pain that comes. It's about time this town voted Conservative and benefitted from some common sense and fiscal restraint rather than suffering through more Liberal moral grandstanding and ill-advised social justice warrior-ing.
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'This generation's Cher', drag night to celebrate Lady Gaga
TBNewsWatch 18This isn't "new", hun. We've had drag queens in Thunder Bay for many decades and we've had drag shows for at least as long as I've been an adult. Just because you have a birthday party with a cowboy theme, it doesn't suddenly make birthday parties "new". The only thing "new" about this, at least for you young folk, is that it's being held in an adults only venue.
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