Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "CP24" channel.

  1. The City of Toronto is very selective about whom it allows to take over its streets.   A few weeks ago, parents wanted to block streets to protest Ontario education policies. Police closed the roads pre-emptively to prevent it. Animal Farm: "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
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  2. "We have reason to believe there will be a public demonstration in this area causing disruption to traffic. In order to prevent any disruption to traffic, we have closed the area to traffic, blockading it with garbage trucks. This will also prevent the expression of what our Dear Leader informs us are unacceptable views. Thank you."
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  3. Yep, the Mayor Chow word-salad NDP approach:   (1) Re-name things at a cost of millions, (2) divide people, (3) raise taxes (re-naming them "revenue tools" of course), (4) divert visiting out-of-town shoppers to Vaughan and Mississauga. Well, I can re-name things too: I hereby re-name her Kamala Chow.
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  4. "Strong criticism from across the country." You mean from a tiny minority of activists. And you forgot about the strong approval across the country. Hoping to lose viewers are you, CP24? May your wish be granted.
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  5. I am sorry for the great loss to Const. O'Brien's family and friends. It is a loss to his community too, and his country.
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  6. Thank you, Mayor Olivia Flake. This re-naming stems from an inaccurate portrayal of Henry Dundas in a 2020 film. He opposed slavery. He simply advocated a gradual ban as the fastest way to get it through Parliament. Of Dundas' recommended gradualism, Oxford history professor Brian Young says "Anything other than this would have put back the cause of abolition by decades."
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  7. Surprising. I mean, he looks like such a nice guy.😄
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  8. Look at him suddenly pretending to care about Canadians now that his party has just 25% support. It's all part of a nauseating charm offensive which has just started in the past few days. (I stress the word offensive.) Sorry, Prime Minister Peter Pan, not buying it. We can all see right through you.😠
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  9. CP24 "Political Analyst" Scott Reid: A career professional Liberal: his first job 30 yrs. ago was at Liberal Party of Canada headquarters. Then he was spokesman for...you guessed it, a Liberal prime minister. CP24: "Viewers need political analysis. Hey, let's hire the most Liberal Liberal ever!"
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  10. This is why the Bayview Village Mall refused a subway station when it was offered/proposed. It was a good decision.
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  11. It's like going from Broadview out to Dufferin, Royal York or maybe Kipling. Remember, this place is only about two-thirds the area of Toronto. (And I mean Toronto, not the GTA.) All this should've been done weeks ago, except Hamas was shooting people trying to walk away. They want their human shields. There's no major difference between Hamas and ISIS.
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  12. Breaking news: The world doesn't care what Prime Minister Peter Pan thinks about anything. Only about two or three million morally and mentally lost Canadians have any real interest. It'd shock me if there was even one non-Canadian reporter there. (Unless there was some nice food and free drinks being served. But probably not even then.)
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  13. He said police released a photo and a description of the suspects. So where is the description, CP24? Give it to us, or do you not think you should? You should. Creating fear as they did, these have all the earmarks of tare a wrist incidents. Don't you want to get these suspects apprehended before any subsequent escalation to serious harm?
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  14. Canadians: "It's been 8 years of you harming Canada's interests and tainting our reputation. You're seriously imperilling our future. Could you possibly do any worse?" Justin Trudeau: "Just watch me."
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  15. Justin Trudeau, stop interfering in the news business entirely. Stop passing laws regulating the news, stop funding private media, stop all of it. Leave journalism to the journalists and back off! Defund the CBC while you're at it. People shouldn't get their news from the government, period. The risks are enormous—to Canadians, I mean. I realize that to you it's a political boon, but that's exactly what's wrong with it.
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  16. (1) In fairness, the frequent pro-H^^^^ demonstrations downtown are 'hate-motivated incidents' too. (2) The spokesman at 1:06, who clearly has native-English-speaker fluency, nonetheless says "reinsure [the community" instead of "reassure." Quality leadership there.😂 Companies in the global reinsurance business must feel threatened by this new competitor!😄
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  17. It's insurance for the landlord, but the tenant pays the premiums. Great for landlords, a further expense for tenants. It opens up the possibility of charging higher rent in the first place. Great for landlords, a further expense for tenants. Heads they win, tails you lose.
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  18. CP24: "Breaking news! Trudeau makes demand, announces sanctimonious opinion!" World: [total silence, no tumbleweeds, not even crickets] Crickets: "Hey man, I don't just start chirping for no reason."
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  19. Well, I'm shocked! PM Peter Pan, the Condemner-in-Chief, has finally after 8½ years condemned something which he should've done. I haven't kept count, but his record now stands at approximately 1-and-2,000. What an improvement.😄
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  20. Denouncing and condemning long lists of things and people are really all he does. From one hour to the next he's either the Condemner-In-Chief or the Denouncer-In-Chief. This Peter Pan has done nothing real to address Canada's problems. Unless you count adding to them.
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  21. Besides 'drive carefully' and 'obey posted speed limits,' the moral here, based on the apparent condition of the three cars, might be: Drive the heaviest car you can afford.
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  22. Would you like to hire me as a headline writer? "Man injured following shooting in downtown Toronto" should be "Man injured in shooting in downtown Toronto" or better yet "Man shot in downtown Toronto" (He wasn't injured following the shooting.🙄 Completing high school is so important.)
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  23. Why, it's because she's a Trudeau Liberal, of course. How can you ask?
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  24. CP24's 'political analyst' is Scott Reid, a lifelong professional Liberal: his first job 30 years ago was at Liberal Party of Canada headquarters. Then he was the spokesman for...you guessed it, a Liberal prime minister. CP24: "Hmm, our viewers need someone to interpret Canadian politics for them. Hey, let's hire the most Liberal Liberal ever!"
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  25. 1) To say the dog being off-leash "precipitated this incident" leaves out half of it at least: the dog is clearly a pit bull or pit bull mix. I remember the Attorney General of Ontario banning pit bulls in the province some years ago. What happened to that? 2) That security guard really stepped up. Big respect for that.
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  26.  @MonoIce350s  You must be a comedian. (A bad one.) The parents' rally had zero to do with hate. This one is all about support for a hate-based massacre.
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  27. Time to implement the El Salvador anti-gang model before things get far worse. It's worked extremely well down there, effecting a stunning turnaround in the plague of violence and creating a great sense of relief in the public.
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  28. The nightly report on how Toronto is being systematically ruined! Ruined! Transformed from its former relaxed peacefulness into violence, crime and strife!
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  29. So was the robber among the dead?
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  30. (1) This is autumn. You didn't know that?🤨 (2) "That could change." It might get colder as we move into December? My, what a brave assertion!😂
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  31.  @TheJlee28  Spoken like a true leftist.
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  32. The police have no problem allowing groups with political power to demonstrate. Think of all the many demonstrations around June through November 2020. No blockades, no interference, just minimal observation. Now that it's parents of schoolchildren who don't like government education policies, they withdraw their co-operation. It shows you who has power and who doesn't.
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  33. What hind of hiring are you doing, CP24?   Someone there actually thinks Queen & Vic Park is "downtown"? 🤨 Is it a drunkenness thing? Marijuana? 🤡
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  34. Rumour has it that Toronto Police have flocked to Montreal to be their coffee and donut waitresses.
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  35. We've got to find out why Trudeau keeps showing up in public with funny marks in the middle of his forehead. This is no longer funny. Ok, it's still funny. But now it's totally disturbing too.
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  36. World Council of Rocks: "Hey, stop comparing us to Melanie Joly's brains!"
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  37. I am in no way persuaded that Trudeau and the Liberals care one bit about Chinese interference in Canadian politics — except maybe to relish it, since such interference could tip a close election outcome in the their favour. The more Conservatives like Michael Chong are targeted, the better for Trudeau. And I can't see the Chinese government going to the trouble if they didn't think they would see concrete results.
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  38. "[I]ncident in Hamilton-area highway" is bad, unidiomatic English. No one says "in" a highway. Things take place on a highway. Why do most CP24 headlines have an elementary school-level writing mistake in them? Why on earth? Just hire a bright 15-year-old. It'll be an improvement.
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  39. Your pro-Chow bias is showing in your obedient adoption of her cynical term "revenue tools." You're journalists, supposedly. Don't cheerlead for Chow. The honest term is "higher taxes and fees."
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  40. More like the equivalent of the leadership which enacted "agricultural reform" in the USSR and China, the result of which was mass famine and tens of millions of deaths by starvation. The similarity is the devotion to ideology over the vital interests of the country's people.
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  41. Sherbourne & Shuter isn't regarded as Cabbagetown. It's Moss Park.
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  42.  @garyhaggquist740  I believe he means he'd gladly have intimate relations with her. There's no logical way that makes him a hater of women. So how about you spare us all? Have a nice day.
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  43. Hey Prime Minister Peter Pan, how about some Emergency legislation to deal with endemic gang violence? You didn't hesitate to invoke martial law when ordinary Canadians were non-violently protesting your policies in front of the Parliament Buildings. Come on, tough guy.
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  44. Sure, it's guaranteed to cause mass deaths if a road is closed.🙄 That's why many roads are closed countless times a year for demonstrations which the government and media agree with, fun-runs, marathons, Gay Pride, food festivals of many different kinds, Caribana, sports victory celebrations...
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  45.  @HoudsAVProduction  Stop spamming that absurd and offensive comparison.
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  46. Wrong. The investigation lasted two weeks. Police know who is in this organized group, what it was up to, and why. It targeted a Jewish-owned business. Never assume that just because you don't know something, no one does. That's over-the-top solipsistic.🙄
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  47. World Sewage Association: "Hey, stop comparing human waste to that guy!"
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  48.  @TheJlee28  The word salad continues. Apparently it's contagious. Please, wear a mask and stop the spread. 😆
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  49. He really ended up not deserving any such honours. City Council's mania for renaming things is disgraceful.
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  50. Everybody panic! It's going up to 32 tomorrow! 🙄 For god's sake panic! The local weather map is coloured orange! 😂
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  51.  @tidbit1877  One, he didn't plow into anyone. Two, bumping into someone isn't assault.
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  52. The word assailant is the wrong word to use here. Oxford English Dictionary: "assailant noun a person who physically attacks another" (That's the entry. No other senses or definitions.) Try perpetrator.
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  53. I can only imagine that his adult handlers are either behind layers of internet cloaking or are overseas. Otherwise why was only this kid caught? He does seem like a very small fish. I hope the investigation is worth continuing.
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  54. I never use all-caps, but I can't help making an exception right now: PRIME MINISTER PETER PAN, JUST GO.
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  55. I don't know. I'd say more like a fruit salad.
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  56. It was over international waters off the Ukraine coast. Nice try, Yevgeny.
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  57.  @SweetShimotekutafuto  Yes, but it was deliberately not connected to the shopping centre in any way, in order to hinder the migration of mall rats.😄
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  58.  @bigbrisk8423   Yes, really. It's really offensive. Death camps do not have an ever-increasing population. Death camps have no overweight people. Death camps allow no one out, unlike Gazans who, before their leaders started this war, could leave the country, could work in Israel in limited numbers, and could travel to the West Bank. Gaza is instead a war zone, and it's a war zone thanks to Hamas. Tragically, civilians die in war zones. Speaking of WWII, civilians died in the Allied liberation of Holland. It was tragic, but the Dutch still welcomed the Allied forces as the liberators they were. Think. Just take your time and try and think. Thanks for your courteous reply.🙄
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  59. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome suggested by facial features. Sad.🙁
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  60. Hundreds of thousands of new residents have settled in Toronto without the number of police going up. They're stretched way too thin. People are feeling less safe because they are less safe. Restore per-capita police levels now.
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  61. This was Moss Park, not Cabbagetown. The parking lot is at the Moss Park apartments.
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  62. He cut to the heart of the matter when he said "Provide us. Provide us."
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  63. She'll probably blow it on changing the names of things. Her incompetence is surprising considering her education is a fine arts BA from Guelph.
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  64. That moment when you realize how tiny Chrystia Freeland's head is.😮  Does this explain why she's devoted her life to serving Justin Trudeau?
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  65. (1) You throw around terms you don't even understand. It's not mature or worthy of any respect at all to do that. (2) How is Indigo the government of Israel? 🤨
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  66.  @znk0r  "Apparition"? 🤣
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  67. Stupidity is spread around the various communities pretty freely. I don't think you're onto anything there.
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  68. Moss Park: Percentage of Toronto population: 0.7 Percentage of homicides, 2023: 10 Percentage of homicides, 2024 YTD: 20
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  69.  @goylanddefree80  Ah, the sin of wanting to exist.
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  70. World Federation of Witch Associations: "Hey, stop comparing us to Chrystia Freeland!"
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  71. Shelters aren't really unsafe and homeless people know this. Some do prefer the street, but it's not because it's genuinely safer. It's commonly because either (1) they can do drugs whenever they want, including all night long, without worrying about staff; (2) they're dyed-in-the-wool loners; (3) they fear running into certain specific enemies, generally from jail; or (4) yes they feel unsafe, but that's because they suffer from true paranoia.
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  72.  @davesingh8702  I think I made myself clear, Mr. Singh. What part don't you get? Did my using punctuation throw you off?
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  73.  @MichaelSplatkins  I think it's fair to assert that decades of mostly unrestrained liberalism, especially the last eight years, did indeed prepare the ground for this turn of events. Do some rethinking of your own. If possible.
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  74. There's a large speakeasy right there upstairs by the El Mo. Booze, drugs until dawn.
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  75. You're indulging in uninformed speculation, and that's putting it generously. A main reason so many people do wait 6 hours or more is that urgent cases take precedence. You can be certain that the victim received first-rate care as soon as he arrived (at St. Mike's, I would imagine, which is about three blocks away). Think, then post.
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  76. Mostly peaceful. Give the man some reparations.
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  77. GTA homicides, rank among 35 largest Canadian metro areas, 2021: 18th City of Toronto homicides, 2022, change on 2021: -16% City of Toronto homicide count, 2023 (Jan. + Feb.) : 3 But yeah, please stay away.
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  78. Oh-oh. "Unacceptable" is the word he uses right before he starts arresting people without bail.
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  79.  @jumbome7420  This dude if he were around in Nov. 1938: "Why is everyone jumping to conclusions? How can we possibly know what this Kristallnacht thing was all about? It could've been for any reason!"🙄
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  80. Just try pointing to any aspect of life or society which hasn't deteriorated markedly since 2010. Let me know if you come up with anything, because I certainly can't.
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  81. I'm fairly sure this business was formerly named International Discount Foods and has been on Steeles a really long time. Used to be further east, I believe. Good store. Maybe having a big sign that says IDF isn't the most advisable move? I don't know.
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  82.  @Araps111  Then she would've said "our opinions don't count." Or clarified afterwards. Appreciate your reply though.
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  83. This con man says the Trudeau govt is "stabilizing immigration" but it's actually increasing. 2022: 437,000; 2023: 456,000; 2024: 485,000; 2025 & 2026: 500,000. Where are these millions of people going to live? Trudeau, Just Go.
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  84. It was right to pursue the van when it left the scene of the robbery. The real danger arose when the van entered the wrong lanes of traffic. But what makes anyone think that not chasing the van at the point would've made the van going the wrong way any safer? The robber's choice was maximally unsafe.
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  85. So our miles of transit lines just went down, right when we need so many more, so badly. This shows two things: (1) That we should build subways and subways only, not these dinky little above-ground lines. (2) Just how unserious the Toronto, Ontario and federal governments are about transit.
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  86.  @garyhaggquist740  Please take good care of your neurons. Really, really good care. Never squander them. There's no such thing as brain tissue you don't need. I hope my advice helps you. Best wishes. Unfortunately I will no longer be able to receive replies from you. Again, all the best!😄
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  87.  @twizz420  Your own reading comprehension leaves something to be desired, as I nowhere stated or implied that I didn't understand the sentence. I didn't fault the writer's grammar either. I faulted him or her on the grounds of sense or logic. "Injured following [a] shooting" is clear enough — or nearly clear enough — but it's ludicrous. Anyway, in journalistic writing there should be no difference between what is said and what is meant. So it turns out you're the one seeking to correct another person without knowing what you're talking about.😂 No big deal, though. You're not implicitly any sort of professional writer (I hope you aren't, anyway), so expectations of you are low. Have a nice night.
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  88. Someone's getting climate and weather mixed up here. It snows in late April sometimes. Doesn't mean much.
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  89. Toronto population (2024 est.): 2.93 million Homicides, 2024 (to April 22): 22 Chicago population (2024 est.): 2.65 million Homicides, 2024 (to April 20): 141
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  90.  @blurtam188  Are you? The word is premier, not "premiere." A premiere is a debut, a first showing or appearance. Welcome to Canada. (And to the English language as it's spoken here.) "LOL"
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  91. Wrong, Inspector Deebag. If a suspect is identified and has spray-paint in his possession, the police lab may be able to match it to the crime scene sample and advance the case to prosecution. Always think, then post.
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  92. ​@@toppa7954 Gaza is not the most densely populated place in the world. That's Hamas propaganda. Gaza: 2.3 million people in 141 square miles. (And 2.3m is a Hamas exaggeration.) It has semi-rural areas. Toronto (2023 est.): 3.0 million in 240 sq.mi. (Btw, it's still noted by foreign visitors for its spaciousness.) To make Manhattan (¼ the area) the same density as Gaza, you'd have to remove 85% of its people. How can anyone fall so hard for the propaganda of a terra wrist group like Hamas and the sad left-wing student dupes at the elite US universities — the parents of whom are shelling out half a million dollars for their "education"?
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  93. That's the TPS board chair? I expected a better speaker and a more impressive, more intelligent-seeming and better-groomed person. Oh well, it's 2023.
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  94. You must have a powerful microscope.
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  95. Chow's plan: Announce that her tax increase is Ottawa's fault. Meanwhile she's doing zero to control spending except targeting a police budget already so strained that reported crimes are routinely ignored. Instead she spends millions re-naming things. Oh, but there's a $7,000+ raise for herself.😠
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  96. So it's basically 'please don't riot.' 🙄 Compare that with martial law and imprisonment without bail for low-key Canadian protestors last year. Parallel legal systems: one for us, one for them. Awful.
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  97. "That second person just a while ago has succumbed to his injuries." Moments later: "They've succumbed to their injuries." 'They' and 'their' are plural. If 'his' was the right word seconds earlier, then it should be "He's succumbed to his injuries." What on earth has happened to people's command of their native tongue, even people in senior positions?🤨
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  98. Surprising. She looks so nice, intelligent, trustworthy and competent. Any mother would rather leave her child with her than take care of it herself. Not like in the old days when women were so oppressed that they seldom handed over the task of raising their children to minimum-wage-earning total strangers who for some reason didn't have children of their own. Terrible times back then.
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  99. "The victim was transported to Toronto Centre." What? Has Mayor Chow been re-naming things again, or has a new hospital called Toronto Centre opened?😂 (I notice, btw, that for some reason it has a sign on it which reads "St. Michael's Hospital.") It seems this local news story was written by a complete out-of-towner.😠
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  100.  @pacman3556   Canada, homicide rate per 100k people (per StatsCan): 2013: 1.46 2022: 2.25 Change, 2013-2022: +54%
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  101.  @redman958  Yeah, from what I understand, that's true. I got the idea that it was more made fun of for its semi-rural state back then. It still had quite a few farms. Also, the homes in south Scarborough were small and modest, something snobs always sneer at. Anyway, across the whole city it's certainly true that the atmosphere is much changed for the worse, even if some or most violent crime stats aren't. (Incidentally, something that's hard to allow for is the advancement of emergency medical care since that time. Maybe quite a number of injured people would be homicide stats if it weren't for that. Or maybe not.) Thanks for your reply.
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  102. As far as I know, the entire Arab world refuses to. All 22 countries, with 450 million people living across 13 million square kilometres. Not enough room.
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  103. Not sure what Captain Crayon means. I call him Prime Minister Peter Pan.
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  104. Formerly no one did that. People were told in their youth "Don't talk with your hands." It was considered a mark of weak verbal skills. Then around 20 years ago "media trainers" began teaching public speakers of every sort, including TV news people, that constant gesturing with the hands was a must. And here we are.
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  105. Pure gobbledegook. Being told you can't pitch a tent wherever you like is not an eviction.
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  106. "The" study? As we're not mind-readers, it would be useful for you to name the study and source. Thank you.
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  107. "Young women are becoming much more liberal." How is that even possible? Any more liberal and they're going to fall off the Left Pole. As for the interview subject, I have a certain amount of doubt that she knows any men.
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  108. "The rebate is a joke"  🤔I don't know. Jokes tend to be funny.  I'd say the rebate is more of a departure from truthfulness, an L-word. The govt. claims 80% of families get a net rebate. The (non-partisan) Parliamentary Budget Office reports that 80% are paying net hundreds or thousands a year.
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  109.  @coco-dr3ii  (1) That's irrelevant to my point, which concerns fairness. (2) You fail to even specify what you mean. (3) My impression is that both the Queen's Park protest and the Gaza ones were sizeable.
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  110.  @Finglebangle  I'm inclined to think that the opinion of someone who couldn't make out my meaning in that comment is perhaps not worth my care. Best wishes to you, though.
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  111. My, what lovely eyeglasses the Crackerjack company now puts in its boxes of candy. But these in particular may serve as a reminder for us to attire ourselves in accordance with our age.
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  112. Jama's statement is an Ontario issue. I support the premier. You support Hamas, I guess.👎
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  113. Hamas was shooting people trying to leave. Btw, they only have to travel a distance most people could walk in an afternoon. Ten or twelve miles gets them far enough from Gaza City.
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  114. This matter ranks about one millionth in importance to Ontarians. Leave it to the official newsletters of the Liberal and NDP parties to cover it.
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  115. Suspended with pay. Great policy for a great lady. My guess is she makes $200,000 per year, before bribes, other payoffs and expense embezzlements. (Whether she gets up to any mischief with seized contraband in the evidence locker, who knows?)
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  116. Trudeau asked him if he wants a $10 million settlement and an apartment in Toronto.
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  117. Uh, where's the voiceover telling us that, like all flooding, this flooding is clearly attributable to global warming?😄 Seems so weird not to hear that.🙄
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  118. Many here are blaming the cyclist for being in the driver's blind spot. They don't realize that the truck was stopped on the right side of the road in the curb lane. The cyclist was driving past on the truck's left in an open lane of traffic. One must visualize that. Stop and let it sink in. The driver was making a left turn from the farthest right part of the road. Making such a left turn is inherently dangerous, as it involves cutting across one or more lanes of traffic going in the same direction. (Here it was 2.) It is of course ordinarily unlawful for that reason. If in special circumstances it is permitted, as it may have been here, it has to be performed with the utmost possible attention and care. Obviously the truck surprised the cyclist by initiating the turn. That is quite understandable at least up to a point, since one rarely if ever encounters such a vehicle turning left from the right-hand curb lane. Possibly the cyclist ignored a warning signal, gesture or shout from the curbside worker to make way for the truck. (I wonder if the cyclist's attention was inappropriately divided or if he/she was listening to headphones. Or maybe not. Maybe the spotter dropped the ball.) Equally obvious, the onus is always on the driver to allow for such things. I can't see the excuse to not check what's going on in the centre lanes before moving. One can always simply put one's head out the window first. To not look is to court disaster. I'm quite sure it's against the law.
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  119. Poor headline. It looks like he put his knee on the man's head around his ear, not his neck. Moreover, a few seconds is not enough to result in any significant danger at all, unless great force were used. The interviewer says "There it is!" after the officer's shoe strikes the pavement about 2 feet away from the man. There was clearly, at that instant, no contact of the knee with the man at all.
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  120.  @UzumakiNaruto_  What you call "a shooting a day" is a gun going off whether or not a person is shot. In 2021, Incidents: 409; People shot: 209. In 2022: Incidents: 379; People shot: 194.
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  121. 1) Conservative-led Ontario has the lowest rate of violent crime in Canada. 2) Saskatchewan Party-led Sask. has the highest. The party has been in power since 2007. But note that, according to their website, "the Saskatchewan Party was formed in 1997 by a group of former Progressive Conservative and Liberal MLAs." [italics mine] 3) NDP-led Manitoba has the 2nd-highest. The NDP has been in power 33 of the last 55 years. 4)  Liberal-led Newfoundland is 3rd. The Liberals have been in power 23 of the last 35 years. 5) Alberta is 7th. Sources: Statista ("Rate of violent crimes in Canada in 2022, by territory or province (per 100k residents"); Sask. Party website; Wikipedia; Perplexity
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  122.  @Charmalite  That's not true. The existing rules make them adequately safe. You clearly don't know what you're talking about.
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  123. Why on earth is it a "war crime" to tell a million people "Get out of the way for your safety. We're moving in to do battle against the army you're in the midst of. Get on your feet and walk ten miles." I don't get it. Life is hard and I wouldn't feel like walking ten miles either, but there's a war on. I would thank them for the warning.
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  124. Seems seldom that anyone at CP24 with high verbal intelligence looks carefully at these headlines before uploading. Here the words "concern over" have no business being there. Senior editors should have language skills way up in the top half of the 99th percentile.
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  125. Mr. Rolex Watch Collection stands up for poor people again 😂... when it means temporarily distancing himself from the highly unpopular Prime Minister Peter Pan.
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  126. "Woman killed following Mississauga nightclub shooting" 🙄Ludicrous headline. Makes it sound like she managed to survive a shooting and was later killed some other way. Should be: "Woman dies from Mississauga nightclub shooting" There should be no difference between what is said and what is meant.
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  127. "Lady"?😂
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  128. Don't you mean R.-son Kelly?😄
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  129. Henry Dundas opposed slavery. He simply advocated a gradual ban as the fastest way to get it through parliament. The controversy stems from an inaccurate portrayal of him in a 2020 film. Of the gradualism he advocated, Prof. Brian Young of Oxford says "Anything other than this would have been a provocation that would have put back the cause of abolition by decades."
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  130.  @aetherfox4404  Not so. The Bronx is 100% a part of NYC in absolutely every sense. It is a constituent borough equally as Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens are. Its people vote for NYC mayor, it is served by the NYPD and NYFD. Peel is not a part of Toronto. It is to Toronto what Nassau County, NY (on Long Island) is to NYC; namely, an adjacent but separate jurisdiction in the metropolitan area.
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  131.  @TheJlee28  Pro tip: When writing a snarky comment about understanding and using English, never write anything so risibly sub-standard as "how she explains the spending will be." It's so bad it's like Mayor Chow wrote it herself! As for her 'explanation,' as you call it, I don't buy it for a second. She'll find a way to squander the funds on achieving a combination utopia/hellhole.
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  132.  @TheJlee28   This rapidly-written series of unhinged replies has me worried. I'm picturing dozens of neglected cats that need feeding. No more, please. I like my foes worthy.
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  133. Thomas Jefferson, George Bernard Shaw and Joseph De Maistre all made the same point. If on the whole we deserved any better we wouldn't stand for this nonsense.
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  134. Thanks. It's great to have a real expert chiming in.😂
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  135. I am Xi Jinping and I totally approve this comment.
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  136. Oh great, the Divider-In-Chief is about to ruin Canada's relations with yet another continent. Wait a second, I almost forgot Italy is already infuriated with him. A few months ago he gave a rude lecture on morals to its popular leader in front of cameras. Prime Minister Peter Pan makes enemies of entire nations just by opening his mouth.
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  137.  @NIAGARAACCOUNTABILITY-zm3dp  I don't know. By definition, to sensationalize is to sacrifice accuracy to creating a stir. I don't see how the headline did that. Anyway, an occurrence in which six people are knifed and five of them die is inherently sensational and I see no reason to downplay it either. Whether the community is "rocked" or not is harder for me to judge, but it seems entirely plausible at the least. I will go so as far as to agree with you, however, that CP24's headline writing is often unacceptable to me for a variety of reasons. It puzzles me why, since in journalism that task is traditionally reserved for the most senior editors with the most seasoned judgement. Thanks for your reply. It was a relief to get a courteous one on this channel for a change. (Also intelligent, clear and well written (!). What are the odds?😮)
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  138. * martial law 🙄 Omg
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  139. That's Gerrard and Jarvis.
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  140. "[T]he ban would apply only to her, and to any visitors wearing such scarves" No, no, no. Certainly not. The ban applies to everyone. As it should. It's basically a scarf with swastikas all over it.
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  141.  @ellecampbell3271  You asked what it is. I answered you.
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  142. The moral stench still hangs over downtown.
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  143. Justin Trudeau: "I have never really liked beaver. Beaver is not my cup of tea. I am therefore announcing a ban on beaver. Beaver is not who we are as Canadians."
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  144. Most shocking of all: 20% of Canadians think he is the best choice for PM.🤯
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  145.  @bramptonjeff81  To confront someone need not be an aggressive thing, nor even impolite. It can simply be argumentative. (See the Oxford Dictionary entry.) His first words once he got her attention were a command. He repeated it immediately. To me he did confront her. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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  146. So, a repeat convicted offender. They ought to have their internet feeds mandatorily monitored, with automatic jail for sidestepping monitoring through the use of any other ISP whether at home or elsewhere.
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  147. I wish the police well in their search for those people who fled the car crash scene, leaving behind the person they were with to die. That is such a low thing to do.
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  148.  @user-fk5jc1jd2z  I think you're right and I think that when terra wrizzum works, that's exactly what makes it work. The state makes special concessions, ordinarily unthinkable, in order to spare the public from violence perpetrated by those demanding the concessions. And across the world and through the years it often does indeed work, up to a point anyway. At least they stopped them down near the waterfront. They sent the simple message that in Toronto, flooding a freeway with people is rowdyism. I foresee these demonstrations dividing the city, the province perhaps, even the country.
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  149. CP24, please do something about all these posts which are just stealthy promos for adult sites.😠 They all feature soft-po avatars and every one is a bland comment of praise for the channel. The channel page directs you to the adult site. Man, they are spamming your channel hard. (I guess they generate business or the people behind them would've given up and stopped by now.)
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  150. It has no brain behind it.
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  151. "Alternative revenue streams" 🤨Your pro-Chow bias is showing. The honest language would be "higher taxes." You then proceed to make the entire segment an interview with Keesmaat, another Chow-type leftist who is of course supportive of Chow. No word from anyone who suggests cutting spending, e.g. by reducing staffing levels. Thumbs down to Chow, Keesmaat—and you. 👎
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  152.  @shakyjake2133  If it were worthwhile to invest in AI in Canada, private capital would not hesitate to pour in. Instead of using taxpayer money, anti-business policies should be done away with. That would cost zero and provide a great benefit.
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  153. "Scarborough is the largest (or 2nd) borough in the city." Incorrect, according to Wikipedia. Its population was 630,000 in 2021. North York had more people, at 645,000, even five years earlier in 2016. Old Toronto had 798,000 in 2016. So Scarborough is 3rd. "Scarborough is the safest borough in the city to live in." What's your source for that? It appears Scarborough and North York had the same number of homicides in 2023, at 13, but North York is more populous. But then, there are multiple other forms of violent crime. I'm interested in crime stats but it's hard to find clear and up-to-date ones. Please share your source.
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  154.  @UrbanBricks  Think of how large the Northwest Territories is. Then tell me if the area of a jurisdiction has much to do with the number of crimes committed there, Herr Einstein.
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  155. What a frivolous point. If you're an off-duty cook and you make your family supper are you "on duty"? Find something real to say.
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  156.  @darthB2A31  A certain number of people committing the same mistake hardly makes it any less of a mistake. By your logic light-brown toast and thoroughly burnt toast which sets off the smoke detector are both correct types of toast, because people make both light-brown and burnt toast from time to time. Fine. Enjoy your burnt toast. Treasure it, proclaim its legitimacy from the hilltops. Have a nice day.
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  157. I remember Chretien, his successor, going to China on those corporate trade missions, not him.
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  158. @@SHlTPOSTAltAcc Maybe that's because no urban areas ever bombed you first, my accurately-named friend.😂
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  159. Thanks for the Chat GPT4 wokebot point of view.
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  160. Terrible situation. Thank god we have a super-genius in the Mayor's office or we'd be screwed.
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  161. Liberal pollster: "If you want to stay in office, you need to start showing you care about real things that affect people." PM Peter Pan: "But I don't care about people or the real things that affect them." Pollster: "Then fake it. I would try the stolen car epidemic for a start. Pretend you care." Pan: "In that case, no problem. Why didn't you say that in the first place?"
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  162. Imagine there were no war on, but a chemical facility nearby was in imminent danger of leaking poison gas. Are we to believe that an orderly evacuation of the hospital could not have been carried out within two days? I am inclined to think that over the past two days no sincere evacuation attempt was made, Hamas coldly reasoning that the patients and staff were more valuable for propaganda purposes dead than alive.
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  163. No blame attributed to Hamas by this woman = No moral credibility, because it indicates support for Hamas
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  164.  @lapoose325  How many drinks have you had?
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  165. Justin Ocasio Cortez. David Johnston. Trudeau-funded CBC news media. Trudeau-funded Canadian corporate news media... ...birds of a feather, flocking together.
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  166. Actually, Wawa is in northwestern, not northeastern Ontario. It's on Lake Superior! 🙄 Know your province! Know how important it is to verify story elements before airing them!
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  167. There's a speakeasy right there. Booze and drugs all night until morning.
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  168. Saw a truck spreading a lot of salt on a major thoroughfare at about noon. I thought the truck must be broken. Actually not a bad idea if this forecast is right. Edit: It just snowed heavily for 5 minutes❄exactly as forecast.
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  169.  @pacman3556 Canada, Violent Crime Severity Index (per StatsCan): 2013: 74.0 2022: 97.7 Change, 2013-2022: +32% Canada, police-reported violent crime, rate per 100k people (per StatsCan): 2013: 769 2022: 932 Change, 2013-2022: +21%
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  170. You in 1913: "Ridiculous! Where will the motor fuel for all these automobiles come from? It will require petroleum in enormous quantities which we don't have and may never have. How will it all be shipped around the country? Where will it all be refined into gasoline? It's an awful fad. There are many hay dealers conveniently located everywhere in every city. Why will people trade that convenience for these bizarre inventions?"
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  171. His mom: "He never bothered nobody. He tryna get his life together."
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  172. Why are people so anxious to show off their fish DNA and swim about in schools, even when it comes to something like naming their child? What a strange way to proclaim one's lack of individuality.
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  173. Confidence in CP24 news reports is harmed by the percentage of headlines with serious problems. The headlines are often incorrect, confusing or invite ridicule. Senior management should examine staffing decisions carefully, and perhaps investigate whether heavy drinking is going on in the newsroom.
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  174.  @EVIL-C  No, I wouldn't complain about higher taxes. Thanks for proving you know 0% about me. And I've heard the arguments against subways before. For one thing, they don't take account of the likelihood that greater Toronto is headed for a population of 10 million. We'll be sorry if we don't build a lot of them. And if the Scarborough RT were a subway, it wouldn't be closing. Yeah, great money-saver.
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  175. Why? Because there's a massive outbreak of POS disease, that's why. On every sidewalk, in every lane of traffic, in every store and restaurant, in every apartment building, every street of every neighbourhood. Why should control of dogs be any different?
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  176.  @littlechange1659  You're not a good shopper, to say the least.
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  177. I didn't see a smile, although she does nearly always have a distinctly pleasant expression. However, I think that's just her face. It looks natural. People aspiring to be on TV who don't look pleasant are ordinarily screened out because viewers by and large show an aversion to them. It's especially the case for women, since in our society women in general are more agreeable than men and therefore generally look more agreeable and pleasant in interactions. Those are just generalities, but no matter what one may think of them, they're real ones. But don't get me wrong: if I thought she was smiling I'd question it too.
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  178. Consider the threshold it took to invoke the War Measures Act in 1970: There had been bombings, murders, kidnapping and armed robberies. And still there was widespread concern and opposition to the move as inappropriate, extreme, and inimical to Canadian values of freedom and due process. In contrast, in Ottawa in 2022 there was not even so much as a single punch to anyone's nose. Not even close. (Some opponents of the protest tried to tie a small fire in a building lobby to it, but it was quickly shown that the two were unconnected.) Indeed many Ottawa residents remarked that during the protest downtown Ottawa felt safer — and was safer — than it had been for years.
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  179. A much longer pilot program is needed before re-writing by-laws. Awareness of this one was slight, so many who would be eventual park drinkers didn't show up. Among the problems I'm sure will eventually arise:   (1) youth gangs going to parks to drink and cause trouble against ordinary park users and eventually rival gangs (2)  open urination and defecation on a large scale due to the non-existence of toilets (3) a bothersome and intimidating atmosphere of general rowdiness which nonetheless falls below the criminal level (4) constant breaking of the by-law against amplified music in parks (i.e. portable stereo equipment), ruining the peacefulness. By-law officers can be phoned but frankly admit that it will take several hours to show up, so trying that is pointless. The current system works fine anyway. Those who want to drink are discreet about it and don't face fines for that reason. Those who break some other law, are rowdy, or are blatantly open in their drinking are dealt with by bike cops.
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  180. Decries racism. Proceeds to single out one race as the problem.
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  181. So I suppose you would want swastika scarves permitted too?
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  182.  @sweetpoptart9486  Like ones that teach rayghce and opposite-sex hay trid. Also against Canadians with roots in Canada, i.e. most Canadians.
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  183.  @garybaines6442  What, "No"?🤨 No, it's not near Toronto? Oh please. Highway 7 and the 400 is scarcely one mile north of Toronto city limits at Steeles. It's half a mile from the Vaughan Centre TTC Subway station! It is definitely near Toronto. You could walk into Toronto in half an hour easily.
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  184. ​ @bennyblanco2523  They're instructed to do it to look "high-status," because "high-status people take up lots of space." But in fact it's very vulgar (in the sense of low-class), so it's properly the opposite of high-status.😮Really quite fitting, therefore, in an upside-down world where people demand the right to use the wrong bathroom, declare that discrimination is justice, that freedom is dangerous and destructive, where the prime minister is clearly an overgrown Peter Pan fruitcake, etc.
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  185. The carnage in Caledon over the past few months has been absolutely stunning.
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  186. Much of the "hate" is illusory, having to do with the vulnerability of Western social media to hostile foreign governments pouring great resources into fake and largely automated posts meant to inflame hatred and division. Just one cheaply-hired worker in a basement in St. Petersburg, Shenzhen or Teheran can make use of thousands of fake accounts to post a truly immense number of nasty and infuriating comments in a single shift. And in the past few years AI translation has greatly added to their ability to sound like native speakers of English. When you read a comment that upsets you with its hate and ridiculous assertions and think "That's so cray zy, what's wrong with people?" the odds are actually good that it wasn't even written by one of of your fellow countrymen/women. The arithmetic of these bee-oh-tee posts is simply staggering. Believe it or not, with automation for posting lightly-altered and recycled comments on many fake accounts across numerous platforms at once, it only takes a hundred workers to easily put up a billion posts in a year. And there are armies of them. And it's extremely hard for the platforms to detect and eliminate them. Unfortunately it works. To call it a major problem is a gross understatement.
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  187. 😂The Black Sea is international waters. It was off the coast of Ukraine. I bet you were complaining when the US shot down the Chinese surveillance balloon, and it was directly above US soil.
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  188. No, he would appoint some old family friend to decide whether he should be investigated.
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  189. 71% of Palestinians say the Oct. 7 atrocities were a "correct" thing to do. (Source: A poll of 1,580 adults conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research in mid-March 2024.)
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  190. If I were a Kremlin-paid Russian internet commenter, that's what I would write. In my first month.
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  191.  @seàn367   No it isn't. Chicago: 41.8 degrees north latitude Toronto: 43.7 degrees north latitude Since a degree of latitude is about 70 miles, Toronto is about 130 miles closer to the North Pole than Chicago.
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  192. I think you have a personal definition of mass stabbing which differs from the one used by criminologists. Likewise domestic violence, which I think properly refers to violence in a cohabitational family or intimate relationship. If the perpetrator is some guy you rented a bedroom to, it doesn't count like that.
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  193. I use the CBC to control my weight. It makes me throw up.
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  194. Big relief. For a while I was worried that maybe a mayor with a bachelor of fine arts from Guelph might not have the brilliance required to make a good decision. So glad I was totally wrong to doubt her soundness of judgment.
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  195. @@toppa7954 Muslim Brotherhood created them.
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  196.  @pacman3556  Good god man, it doesn't get any worse than your rude comment. You lash out with hostility when the fault is yours for your lack of ordinary comprehension. Think, then post.
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  197. After repeated viewings and having given it some thought, my opinion is that this incident was staged by the security detail. It even appears the minister and her aide were unwitting accomplices. The same cop has arrested Menzies before. He saw that Menzies was there, he knew the minister was coming that way, he knew Menzies would approach her, and he knew he would walk in front of her. The real giveaway is that the cop didn't walk out to meet her and the aide; he remained standing behind the pole. It served as a barrier which Menzies would have to walk to the left of. Freeland and her aide would quite naturally walk towards the cop and his fellow officers. The idea would've been for them to 'deliver' Menzies to him. In the event, Freeland and her aide's path steered Menzies towards the waiting cop, the narrowness of the gap between the pole and the building ensuring that the cop would only have to move scarcely half a step and Menzies would bump into him. Once Menzies moved leftwards as he had to do, the minister and the aide's path was blocked, yet only the aide adroitly bailed out onto a rightwards path. Freeland stayed with Menzies until the contact with the cop, which is strange since that portion of the sidewalk was about to end. So who knows, maybe they did know what was intended. Beforehand there's an unnatural look of slightly smirking nonchalance. As the actual incident unfolds, neither woman's face shows surprise or concern and neither of them slows much, which it would be natural to do if what happened between Menzies and the cop were truly unexpected. The aide's face especially does not match the situation. It just all looks choreographed like a basketball play. This didn't even come close to crossing my mind initially, and in fact not until I'd seen it several times while watching news reports on several channels. It's the last thing I'd ever expect, but the realization, or perception, has been forced upon me by simple close attention. I know it sounds weird, and indeed it is weird by any standard, but it looks that way. This is just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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  198.  @KoolKat42  I'm sorry you had to deal with all those awful replies. I wonder if some of them are locked up in rubber rooms somewhere. They should be.
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  199. Why don't they ever riot against what their own people are doing? [crickets]   Do they even disapprove?
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  200. The title and the clip are unrelated. Was there a staff party last night that ran really, really late?
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  201. Moss Park is the homicide capital of Toronto this year. See the TPS homicide dashboard's neighbourhood tab.
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  202. Headline: Trudeau Departs India, One-Billion-Plus Feel Sense of Relief Rumour: Modi to declare a national holiday.
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  203. Pray tell, in which province do you yourself reside?
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  204. Unusual suspects.
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  205.  @bramptonjeff81  I don't agree to that.🤨 ...Nah, just kidding.😄
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  206. I suppose it wasn't very difficult for police to figure out the connection between the victims, since they already deemed one of them a case of mistaken identity. So what was the motive?
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  207. But this is routine stuff. Do you see people panicking or something? People here are taking it in stride, of course. All that's happened is that the city announced people have to move their cars to make way for plows and snow trucks. 24-hour news stations have a lot of time to fill, and that's the reason for this 10-minute report on a thing that could've been covered in 15 seconds.
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  208.  @jph4889  Somebody making a point: "If Taylor Swift loses any more weight she's going to fly away in a slight breeze." An insufferably literal-minded person: "I don't see how that could happen."🙄
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  209.  @Megafoot2164  I would assume so. People all over the world have money invested in Canadian oil. Stop being coy with these posts and say something. Never hide your argument, as a professor once said to my class.
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  210.  @RisetoStrength  A spectral analysis would be fast, accurate, cheap and easy. It would reveal something fairly close to a chemical signature. Maybe not a smoking gun, but it would be a good piece of evidence. I wonder where you're coming from on this. Why are you ridiculing what the TPS practices are on evidence collection? They don't know how to do it? Are you pretty sure you know more than they do?
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  211. Notice he's of European descent so they decided to broadcast his photos.
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  212. What we have here is a completely uneducated complete lack of knowledge of what the word murder even means.🤨
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  213.  @Finglebangle  At last some sincere frankness.👍 It's not intelligence but it's a good start anyway.
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  214.  @missmayflower  You're right. Mothers are likelier to physically abuse their children than fathers are.
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  215.  @americanhotdog  These vehicles are leaving in shipping containers through the port of Montreal.
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  216. Given what Inspector Brown said, and doing some very minimal reading between the lines, it sounds like the mother is suspected of committed the very most heinous acts possible. 🤨And you're saying she was doing her best. Wow. Just wow.😠
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  217. Absurd. Loblaw's markups are around where they were before. Their prices went up because the food suppliers raised their prices. The carbon tax also has a hand in it. This is like walking down the street when it's raining, getting wet, and blaming the roof of your house for not keeping you dry.
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  218. Besides the attackers themselves, we should also apportion serious blame here to the disrespect and demonization of police by the radical left — whether activists, politicians or university faculty. And let's not forget their media allies: years of sympathetic or even merely uncritical coverage legitimizes radicalism in the public's eyes.
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  219. Buh-bye.
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  220. What a drama queen remark, insulting to the memory of the victims at Kent State. The authorities aren't overreacting, they're doing the opposite. They're over-indulging some entitled pro-terra wrist trespassers. The trespassers likewise insult the memory of the victims of October 7.
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  221.  @Make_America_Native_Again  I see you have a rabidly intolerant attitude towards immigrants.
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  222. Finalist.
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  223. ​ @pacman3556  Admit that encouraging and enabling life-shattering and deadly addictions is a failure. Stop repeating that mindless mantra that laws do nothing to contain drug use. It's like saying that because there are a certain number of road deaths, laws against speeding are useless, so let's legalize all speeding everywhere. The resulting carnage on the roads will soon correct you. Drug laws do something.
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  224. She just wanted to do some drinking, dancing and socializing like any typical young person. Very saddening. I know the sympathies of all of us are with her loved ones.
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  225. All right, but it sounds like you're fluffing it off. Any way you cut it it's serious. If your profile pic is anything to go by you're likely unaware that in Toronto cutting up your schoolmate was still a huge taboo back when you were 10, and next to unheard of when you were in diapers. Yeah, it was a naïve and innocent joker place back when high school students just had fistfights, I guess you'd say. Maybe even that it will have fully matured once multi-punk gunfights start happening several times a year. If so, you've got a lot to learn about where you live, missy, because the vast majority of people in it don't accept this happening.
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  226. Fuel for an hour, $120k? 🤡 I wonder if it'd even be $120.
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  227. @icankillbugs From your account name, I take it pest control is your line of work. Can exterminators suffer neurologically or psychologically from the poisons they deal with? No real reason, just wondering.
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  228. @icankillbugs So the answer to my question is clearly Yes. 😄
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  229.  @LinA-it9vd  Something's got to be wrong with a person in a discussion of a murder who says the murder rate is meaningless. Have an awful day, because I think wishing you one is the right way of honouring your actual desire.
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  230. ​ @lilrevo9651  This claim is often made. No doubt there is an element of truth to it, for a tendency to attack can probably be inculcated in probably just about any dog by raising it badly enough. But I reject anything beyond that possible veneer of validity. Pit bulls were bred to fight with utmost strength and tenacity. The word pit here refers to the literal pit enclosure around which paying spectators would watch one such dog incapacitate or kill another. When pit bulls attack it is due to the breed's genetics having been manipulated by breeders in days gone by (or maybe recently as well). Such deliberate breeding explains why it's pit bulls and other kinds of fighting dogs — but never yellow labs and poodles, for example — which are in the news for maiming or killing children, old people, or anybody. I greatly resent any attempt to gaslight me and other people in this manner. Even the more modest claim of "Most pit bulls don't chew into anybody's limbs and tear off parts of them" just doesn't cut it with me. Not even close. Thanks for your reply.
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  231. Bunch of total crybullies. Toss the non-students off the property, expel the students from McGill.
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  232. Yeah. It basically means be ready to run for your life in a split-second...when trapped inside a moving vehicle. 🤨
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  233.  @stephano6793  If that's your point, why didn't you say so? It has nothing to do with whether he was or wasn't on duty. For one thing, if you're on duty you're getting paid. Going shopping at Best Buy is not an instance of being on duty. You're wasting my time, so I'm muting you. Have a nice day.
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  234. He made basic mistakes in what is pretty clearly his own mother tongue. I don't think he's spent much time reading, except for probably textbooks. He nonetheless seems to have high verbal intelligence and fluency.
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  235. They targeted a Jewish-owned business.
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  236. Do you mean "Two months ago"?🤨
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  237.  @deborahhennessey  Moles do not appear overnight.😂 How old are you? Half an hour? Now let's see you try explaining the other thing, that circle an inch in diameter. It made him look like a Manson Family member.
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  238. Oh, those "riding" house prices!🙄
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  239. Some kind of cult thing, probably, like members of the Manson Family had on their foreheads.
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  240. 😂Even Russia, China and Vietnam changed over to free markets. You didn't know that?🤨 It's old news.
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  241.  @athomefitness3089  Good thing nitbit's not in charge of anything, isn't it?
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  242. You sure you're not overlooking the clear implication that the shooter was someone with ties to a rival towing company? I mean, are they usually suspected in downtown shootings? (I'd say no, except maybe when the victim is a tow truck driver, like this time, it seems.) I know what you're driving at and this doesn't seem like an apt occasion to say it, if it ever really is.
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  243.  @ocean645  I was equally embarrassed at his use of capital letters for emphasis. I think that might've been a thing 150 years ago.
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  244.  @UzumakiNaruto_  Your points are well taken but without video we don't know: 1) how suddenly the turn was initiated, 2) how fast the driver lurched across the cyclist's lane, 2) whether the cyclist was in any way warned or signalled to stop, 3) whether the driver did a side mirror or shoulder check  Those are the things which this matter hinges on. Believe me, motorists whom a cyclist has no reason to fear can seriously injure or k ill him in an instant.
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  245. Namely?
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  246. People cannot "colonize" their own homeland. Are the Egyptians colonizing Egypt? Are the Japanese colonizing Japan? Are the Papua New Guineans colonizing Papua New Guinea?
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  247. Indigo's owner/CEO/whatever is Heather Reisman. I guess the police have evidence they targeted Indigo because she's Jewish. It was pictures of her face that were plastered on the windows.
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  248.  @scottyP1672  I'm too close to the centre to call myself one, especially now that so many liberals (most, apparently) have lost their minds completely. I see myself as politically homeless, really. Early on I did vote Liberal. Chretien and David Peterson weren't too bad. Btw, I'm glad you saw fit to admit your mistake, even if you wouldn't believe me. Cheers
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  249.  @lapoose325  That's bizarre. Why would you make that connection? Did you think something I said indicated a liberal bias?
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  250.  @lapoose325  You've got a lot of major problems. I'm muting you.
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  251.  @knowwhey7559  If they didn't cover emerging stories having few details like this one, he'd be the first to wail loudly that they were neglecting their duty to inform the public or even 'covering up' unpleasant news. Thanks for your great comment.
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  252. ​ @saltpeter500  I don't call that crying. It's clearly meant to stir feelings in the community that in time may coalesce into concrete, practical remedies. People don't always know what to do, so they start somewhere. Whatever it is it's better than being a total sfink-ola.
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  253.  @saltpeter500  You're the 'tough guy,' just looking for a scrap while hiding behind your computer. Look elsewhere, sfinky. I mute sfinks on the third strike.
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  254.  @kevbrown1867  You're welcome. As for your middle fingers, just pull them out of wherever they're stuck, Det. Brown, 😂 and wash them off well.
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  255. Sounds incredibly far-fetched, don't you think?😄
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  256.  @TheJlee28  What a perfect example of effortless arrogance on your part.👏 Such an outstanding specimen that I suggest you stuff and exhibit it in a national tour of museums.
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  257. ​ @mariag.8242  Ah, Prime Minister, I wondered when you'd show up with your poyz'n rhetoric! Yep, anyone who doesn't support Olivia Chow's policies is "extra reigh cyst and misogynistic." Even a man (me) who married a woman born in the same place Chow was (Hong Kong)! Your screen name, btw, is quite precious, Prime Minister, considering you no longer have a marriage.😂
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  258. It's simple: He eluded police, got into the collision, and evidently abandoned the car and fled on foot.
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  259. Never ask what percentage of the Pals passionately support Hum Moss.
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  260. He's repulsive. Clearly an activist rather than a scholar of any sort, because the intelligence of a real scholar is apparent at once. He gave off a powerful impression of a lack of mental gifts.
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  261.  @gaba_gool  1) Actually, 2 millon Arabs live inside Isr. and enjoy the equal full protection of its constitutional human rights provisions. They are citizens, workers, business owners, voters, public figures, members of the Knesset. Yes, Isr. is officially J ew ish. So what? The UK is officially Anglican. What matters is equal status of individuals. 2) 71% of Palest inia ns say the Oct. 7 atrocities were a "correct" thing to do. Source: A poll of 1,580 adults conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research in mid-March 2024.
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  262.  @pacman3556  According to Wikipedia's List of Countries by Intentional Homicide Rate, Canada's rate is the world's 85th lowest (79th not including six dependencies). That is not "one of the safest." The ranking of 79th places it not far above the middle. Concerning downtown, Moss Park (pop. ~22k) has recorded 6 homicides already this year, a shocking and unprecedented number. It works out to an annual homicide rate of 36 per 100k, which if it were a country would rank it 6th highest in the world. You ought to pay attention to facts instead of cravenly lobbing trashy and childish insults repeatedly.
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  263. Gee, they're only defending their boss.
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  264. So there was a shooting, and then afterwards someone was injured? Make the headline "Victim injured in shooting in North York." CP24, I'm available to be your headline writer. Get in touch.
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  265. I want closure. What was the outcome?
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  266. I wish I never had! Btw, why does he have that weird circle in the middle of his forehead?
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  267. Oh great, buy at the top of the market, sticking taxpayers with the highest tab possible, as well as flooding more money in to pushing prices even higher. And guess what else?: That puts upward pressure on rents as well, since landlords price rentals according to their own monthly payments. Is it any surprise that Chow graduated from Guelph in Fine Arts?
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  268. Ontario's homicide rate is consistently below the national rate over at least the past decade. On the separate matter of ordinal rank, it has been 5th or 6th each year. The City of Toronto and the Toronto metropolitan area also both come in below the national rate. Facts matter, as you may have heard.🤨 Use a search engine or go to Statistics Canada, my totally classy friend.
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  269. Bears a certain resemblance to payday loans. Expensive, but it could get people out of a jam.
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  270.  @Shei-vei  Actually the murder rate is similar to what it was 50 years ago in the early 1970s. (About 8% higher.) Back then murders were stable in the low-40s per year and the population (within the same borders as present-day Toronto) was 2.1 million. This year, with 25 days remaining, we're on pace for 65 murders and the latest population estimate is 3.0 million. So, 2.17 intentional homicides per 100k residents now, versus 2.0 back then.
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  271.  @UzumakiNaruto_  It's an interesting coincidence that this reply should come from you, since just yesterday I was thinking how to put the matter, and I came up with this: The people from Canadian families that have been around since at least about 1955 (so I'm talking about (1) people with deep roots in Canada and (2) the post-war immigrants) really settled into law-abiding patterns after about 1990 or 1995. If it were only those families and their children who were around today, Canada would probably have a crime rate something like Japan's. The truly peaceful and secure nation we had a century ago likely would have been re-attained. I wonder if you might agree with that. Anyway, thanks for your reply. EDIT: I just realized that you are using a pseudonym, so maybe my reply has a major invalid element!😄
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  272. Olivia Chow: "Not congested enough. Not nearly enough!" Prime Minister Peter Pan: "True. I'll bring in another million people. Hey, wanna go out with me?"
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  273. Pffft. The city's population has risen sharply and dangerous criminal elements have gotten stronger as a result of restrictions to police funding. You're blaming the victim. Your point of view, if taken seriously and to its logical conclusion, would oblige the city to cut the police budget in order to make the city safer. You haven't thought this through competently, I'm afraid.
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  274. What the foxtrot does that have to do with anything? I'll tell you: Nothing.
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  275. What's that strange word he used a number of times which sounded like "wipe"?
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  276.  @BOLLOCKS1968  Wow, good. How's your outlook? The story on opioids is that they give people a hateful scroo-you attitude towards life, the whole world and everyone in it, permanently. But I'm unclear if that always makes them insufferable for the rest of their lives, or if it goes away in certain cases once the use is 100% over (including methadone, which, let's face it, is government heroin). Did you manage to become free of that?
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  277.  @tracyclaystowell6431  Proofreading is your friend.
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  278.  @marcelcharette265  Believe it or not, lies — apart from slander and libel — are indeed protected speech. And I'm sorry to say that they ought to be. Anyone who really thinks it through will agree. But it's still right, in my view, to take strong action against foreign propaganda. In fact it's vitally important.
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  279.  @Megafoot2164  Why don't you tell us what you know?
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  280.  @Megafoot2164  That's it? Please go on.
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  281.  @Megafoot2164  I don't see the point of your coyness.
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  282.  @marcelcharette265  Well, that was a silly reply. Of course lying is bad and of course there are often — and should be — negative consequences for it. If you really thought it was necessary to point this out after reading my reply, your reading comprehension is rather poor. Note especially the part where I mention libel and slander and how they are not protected speech. They are illegal. Thanks for wasting my time, Captain Sanctimony.
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  283.  @Megafoot2164  Well, thanks for your edit where you finally shared your earth-shattering info. But did you think I was going to see it? YouTube doesn't notify people when you make an edit, so I saw it by chance. Anyway, is that all? CNOOC (formerly Nexen) only produces about 70k bbl/d, which is a tiny fraction of the 4.5 million bbl/d the oil sands produces. 70,000 out of 4,500,000 is supposed to be a lot? To me it's a rounding error. I'm an anti-CCP hawk, so I was hoping for a lot more. If something else comes to mind, please share it. Cheers.
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  284.  @Megafoot2164  I disagree. It's not what you spend to buy a company or shares in it, it's what the company then does to generate wealth. Bad investors and managers are disparaged, ignored and marginalized for a reason. Likewise a bad cook, let him pay however much for his ingredients.
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  285. Thanks for adding that. I might have missed the first one or two seconds.
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  286. Shoplifters are why we can't have nice things. It's a massive problem nearly everywhere, in effect a second HST. Then there's Costco. Institute the Costco model. The honest 99% of shoppers will understand it and want it.
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  287. Not sure about that, but apparently he said he'll save criticism of the Canadian govt for when he gets back home. Makes sense, because he's down in Washington to talk about China's misdeeds and really ought to make his visit 100% about that. Smart dude.
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  288. What a bitter coincidence how so many Toronto businesses are struggling and so many are burning down. Imagine how they must feel for misfortune to pile on top of hardship!
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  289. 👎The newsreader's bias against the protestors was so audible it was palpable.👎
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  290.  @craighuntley6547  I don't condone such abuse. But landlords are destroying society with their outrageous rents. It's hard for me to feel for any group with so many bloodsuckers among them. Only a bloodsucker could charge $3,000 for a modest 1-bedroom. A place to live isn't a luxury or trinket.
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  291. Also in this section, some thinking they have the magical ability to tell people's age over the internet.
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  292.  @JesseS-ns2vy  It's Orwellian to arrest an organized group of vandals now?🤨 It's Orwellian to investigate damage to a Toronto bookstore which was clearly targeted because its owner is Jewish? (I refer to Heather Reisman, whose face was on the posters plastered on the storefront.) As a student of Orwell's writings for many years, I think it's fairer to use that adjective for your own post.
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  293. His life is a protest against the gross unfairness of being younger than his brother.
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  294. You lost me at "no other choice but to resort to crime." That's like a woman having "no choice but to become a prostitute," as though cashiers and waitresses are obscure alternatives. Ridiculous, "bruh."
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  295.  @RobzdaBlade  I only had the one objection. The rest of what you said I am somewhat or fully congenial to. Thanks for your interesting and heartfelt reply.
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  296.  @frgartner8446  That second part was a very neat line in unseemly innocence.
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  297.  @TomSnout333  That should be good for a spot on the podium at the medals ceremony for men's histrionics.
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  298.  @stashiv  That was one for the department of redundancy department.
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  299. 1) How do you know what the cars will cost? 2) Anyway, $50k would be below average. ("In February 2024, the average cost for a new car is almost 50 per cent higher at $66,979." Source: National Post, Mar 8, 2024)
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  300. Good! It means fewer Ontarians endure longer wait times, suffer worse health outcomes, or die earlier. Clinics set up with private capital which take OHIP aren't new. They're all over the place in Ontario and they're helping keep the whole system afloat.
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  301. Saw the headline and came by just to tell you that this does not qualify as news. 👎
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  302. I am in a car theft ring and I totally approve your comment.
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  303. So many restaurant fires in the past few years, just as so many restaurants are experiencing a downturn in business. Brutal coincidence.
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  304. And that's why they're given proper warning to get off what will shortly be a battlefield. It is mischievous to pretend not to realize that.
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  305. Fifty years ago, in 1974, the speed limit on the 400 was 75 mph (121 km/h).
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  306. Drugs, pure and simple. Three possibilities: Two druggies, one of whom cheated the other out of his very scarce funds. One druggie and a dealer, and the dealer cheated the druggie out of his very scarce funds. Two dealers, one of whom tried to put the other out of business. However it went, it's pathetic.
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  307. Todd Smith made a strong impression on me here. Good attitude, obvious intelligence. I hope he eventually emerges at the federal level of politics.
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  308. The world's clowns will resent that comparison terribly.
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  309.  @CV-vi5zo  He's not ignorant. He's ignoring the flagrant likelihood that this wasn't an Israeli strike.   This is all part of Hamas and Iran's plan. They didn't plan 10/7 as a standalone event.
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  310.  @pacman3556  Congratulations, you've officially earned a coveted place in the Guinness Book of Fn More Ons! That's something they can never take away from you. 👏👏
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  311.  @KathyMpamugo  Well, I just intuitively sense that he's not what you'd call a beaver man.😄  And he does love to go around condemning and banning things he doesn't approve of (having them arrested, outlawed, gradually phased out, and so on), so I figured he might be going after beaver next.
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  312. I wish them luck with a capital F. (Apologies to Elvis Costello for stealing his line.)
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  313. Fifty-four years in Toronto (!) and she still has the command of English of someone who got here five years ago. Really quite surprising that she's not any sharper than that, considering her marvellous academic credentials (bachelor of fine arts, University of Guelph).😂
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  314.  @bramptonjeff81  Please explain what you mean. I don't understand any of that. It is proper for the media to quote the govt's public reaction. Normal journalism requires it.
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  315. I'm not sure what the video has to do with Jamaica. Probably nothing. But since you bring up that country, it does have the world's highest murder rate, around 25x that of Canada.
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  316. Ah, this is so triggering to the moral descendants of Himmler. As the caterpillar lays her eggs on the fairest leaves, so the Himmlerites, salivating for the ultimate solution,  swarm the comments of the uploads that expose the truth about them.
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  317. Ok, if you're the expert. But try to develop other interests.
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  318. TTC-Detroit sale story: What, a million dollars?🤨 That has to be way too little. It's like they said "I'll give ya a grand."
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  319. 1st story: Solid messaging from the U of T admin. Now get them out of there. Foreign interference in elections: We simply must stop buying so many goods from that country. For the past three years I've made a serious effort and I've reduced mine by 90%. It's fun! And it will work if most of us do it. Tip: Ask store staff for help.
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  320. ​ @smokeemifyagotem8851  None of you people here are clued in. There is no sense of disaster or panic. Zero. This report was stretched out to 10 minutes because this lazy station has 24 hours in a day and nothing to cover. The only thing mentioned was that people have to move their cars off the main roads. Watch again to confirm this. Ignore the impulse to speak out of blind resentment. Listen, think and post carefully.
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  321. No, they didn't say leave the keys outside. They said keep them inside the house near the locked door. The idea is that the cops don't want armed crooks going into bedrooms demanding keys.
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  322. He withdrew the word as demanded by the Speaker. He replaced it with "radical." That should've been the end of it. Radical is not unparliamentary language. To eject him after that can only be due to Liberal bias. (The Speaker is a Liberal MP.) The Speaker owes him an apology. After saying he's sorry, he should resign.
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  323. 'Twas a conflagration
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  324. A pipeline to nowhere, buddy, with no purpose anymore. It will never be used unless and until Putin is long gone and relations with Europe have been slowly and painstakingly restored. And at that time it can repaired in a straightforward fashion for some tens of millions of dollars, or the low hundreds of millions perhaps. It is 99% intact.
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  325.  @northstar1060  You're the one wearing the little pleated skirt. I'm dealing in facts.
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  326. The Canadian Tire nearest me, a very large store, has 100% self-checkouts.
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  327. "Cold, cruel and small" is rich coming from the ironically-named Ms. Freeland!😮 All the left-of-centre politicians do is project their own atrocious qualities onto conservatives. (Their bought-and-paid-for media cheerleaders do the same.) Her name really should be Marie "Let Them Eat Bugs" Antoinette-Freeland.
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  328. I think Russia is headed for a lot of regret. The news that the oligarchs are forming their own Wagner-style PMCs (private military companies) is a highly ominous sign. For the sake of world as well as Russian stability Putin should withdraw from Ukraine. It's best if he remains in power for now and arranges an orderly power transition over the next year or two. The world does not want Russia fragmenting.
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  329.  @jeffspicolli593  Good man, even if you did misspell Spicoli. —Mr. Hand
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  330. "Joke"? You don't think plumbers retire rich? Really?
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  331. The cellphone policy is fantastic. It's about time. I've heard that kids are not against this sort of thing. Many desperately wish they could be rescued from kid phone culture, feeling that it makes their lives very hard. I feel like Ford is really on a roll.👍
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  332. It was over international Black Sea waters off Ukraine.
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  333.  @marieromanova-po7ox  Nice try, Svetlana. If it was over Russian territory they would've been 100% within their rights to shoot it down (and the US would have zero chance to recover it).
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  334.  @lunamaria1048  More like Luna-maria-tic.
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  335. It's like Trudeau thinks the right to govern us just belongs to him. Like it's a right to rule us. Like he's Justin the First. He doesn't quite have that delusion, but I think he has that feeling. He has to realize instead that it's like he's a guest at a party somewhere and is now unwelcome. As an unwelcome guest, he should go. Now.
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  336. That isn't right. Try 228 arrests, over a thousand cars.   Great job not paying attention to the video and then shooting your mouth off. Also, $50m would pay for an investigation by 500 officers (!) for a whole year. Project Stallion was shorter and surely far, far smaller than that. So please spare us.
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  337. Strange how a task of mere counting takes 13 months to complete. It should be possible to collect gun crime data faster than that — monthly, say — and we should have the numbers for 2023 by now. Canada is so slow, no wonder so many countries have caught up to and passed us.
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  338. MIT CyberDefense Index 2022/23: Canada, rank in G20: 5th National Cybersecurity Index: Canada, rank out of 176 countries: 33rd (US: 46th) Harvard Kennedy School Top 10 Most Powerful Countries in Cyberspace: Canada: 8th Comparitech Most CyberSafe Countries: Canada, rank in world: 13th
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  339.  @iCortex1  Omg. You're a big boy, spotting the obvious should be well within your powers.  If it's not, neither I nor anyone else can help you. Do have a nice day, my ironically-named friend.😂
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  340. Come on, try to do better than that. It's permanent, not "permiment." Good lord. And don't yell in all-caps.
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  341.  @pillcosby777  No need to know. That would be your area, I'm sure.
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  342.  @juliogonzo2718  You have to visualize what was described. The truck, according to the officer if I understood him correctly, was in the right-hand curb lane, not the centre lane. Making such a left turn is inherently dangerous, as it involves turning into and across a lane of traffic going in the same direction. It is of course ordinarily unlawful for that reason. If in special circumstances it is permitted, as it may have been here, it has to be performed with the utmost possible attention and care. The truck, it would certainly seem, surprised the cyclist by initiating the turn. That is quite understandable at least up to a point, since one rarely if ever encounters such a vehicle turning left from the right-hand curb lane. Possibly the cyclist ignored a warning signal, gesture or shout from the curbside worker to make way for the truck. (I wonder if the cyclist's attention was inappropriately divided or if he/she was listening to headphones.) Still, in my view the onus is on the driver to allow for such things. I can't see the excuse to not check what's going on in the centre lane before moving. One can always simply put one's head out the window first. Perhaps you interpreted the officer's account differently. If so, you are welcome to let me know.
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  343. ​ @thecinephilefish9465  Thank you. Were we the only two people paying attention to the video? I made the same point here in this thread, btw, and I don't even see my post now. EDIT: I can see it by selecting Sort By Newest.
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  344.  @thecinephilefish9465  It's just one of the worst channels for prevalence of posters with awful personalities. To me it really stands out.
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  345. Ok then, let's not centralize food distribution. The resulting extra costs will mean your standard of living goes down the other 360 days of the year, permanently.
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  346. "Emergency"? Who used that word in this video? No one.
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  347. Gotta love that pumpkin-coloured moon though.🍔🏀 (No pumpkin emoji so going with hamburger and basketball.)
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  348. ​ teet1337  Thank you. Y'know, this channel has the worst commenters of any I know of on YouTube. Unintelligent, hostile, bad personalities. Then there's all the posts hustling for business at adult sites with their soft-po profile pictures.🙄 Lately I've finally come to agree, after decades of contradicting the accusers, that Toronto really is full of eh wholes. The pandemic and eight years of Trudeau has just unleashed them like a tsunami.
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  349. ​ @UrbanBricks   Where the OP wrote "Scarborough is the largest (or 2nd) borough in the city. It is a large area," it sounds like a pair of separate assertions, not one. That's why I treated them as such. If I were to say "So-and-so is the most childish or 2nd-most-childish person in Toronto," why tack on "He/she is juvenile," as though that adds something? It would fail even as mere emphasis. I'd be better off remarking on, for example, that person's hilariously embarrassing Pokemon (!) obsession.😂 Now stop bothering me and spend a while thinking about why it's wrong to bother people, especially to initiate hostilities with unprovoked insults. (It's also against the rules of this platform.) If left to fester on its own, this problem conduct isn't going to get better and is likely to result in further decades of unhappiness. Have a nice day!
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  350.  @raaid85  I see you're a big believer in the claims of Hamas. It also said the IDF bombed that hospital (they didn't) and it said there were over 500 deaths (it was around 50). So not cute.
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  351. 😢
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  352. Simple threat.
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  353. Correct, except that the word you want is upstream.
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  354. "Let me be clear." That's what a Trudeau Liberal says right before they deliberately spin untruths. Every time.
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  355.  @DaveSmith-eu2ld  "A small two-seat training helicopter with a piston engine typically burns about 9 to 16 gallons per hour. A larger five-seat turbine helicopter typically burns about 25 to 30 gallons per hour. fuel costs vary on region but expect $4.7 - $5.5 per US gallon." (2022) So, about US$100 per hour. Helicopters burn either Avgas or jet fuel, the cost being around C$6-7 per gallon in Canada in 2023 for a commercial buyer. (Not even as much as diesel.) So, maybe C$150 an hour for a not very large police helicopter. Maybe less, maybe more. Add maybe $1,000 an hour for other costs, i.e., crew and added maintenance. So you're off by around two orders of magnitude. You're thinking of a Blackhawk maybe? Or you're not so good with powers of 10?
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  356.  @DaveSmith-eu2ld  I went to multiple Canadian fuel price sites. Smoke salmon, not drugs. "lol"
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  357.  @DaveSmith-eu2ld    I'm sorry you wasted your time not developing your mind. "lol" <---- the favourite retort of less-bright-than-average 12-year-olds everywhere
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  358.  @danielle9825  I wasn't saying he's that bad, btw. But the channel should have other pundits as well, if for no other reason than to reassure people like you and me. I appreciate your reply.
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  359. It does seem like the murders are of a more disturbing character now. However, the murder rate is only a little bit higher than 50 years ago. In the early 70s, Toronto (the six boroughs, then called Metro Toronto) had a population just over 2 million and just over 40 homicides. Now the population is 2.9 million and we're headed for 60 homicides this year. (39 so far with the year 2/3 over.) So the rate is about 2.2 per 100k vs. 2.0 back then.
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  360. "Muslim Broski" wouldn't refer to the Muslim Brotherhood would it?😂 Because that would show that you yourself are completely unbiased.😂
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  361.  @guymontag2948  Broski means brother. You can put your back out covering for support of a global terra wrist organization like that.
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  362.  @guymontag2948  Only 71% of Palestinians call Oct. 7 a "correct" action according to a mid-March poll, so I hardly think he's any sort of rarity. There are peaceniks among them but Gaza is hardly a safe place to be open about it. H---s tortured this guy for his views.
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  363.  @guymontag2948  You listened very selectively what he was saying. Like you're ignoring numerous whole sentences and parts of others. He's actually a very smart guy, and wise too. As for being in Germany, he hasn't been there for very long. Before that he lived many years under H----s.
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  364.  @guymontag2948  The mayor and deputy police chief of New York City happen to agree with him about what's behind these protests. Anyway, the stress he laid was on how these protests would hurt Palestinians, not how bad private American citizens or immigrants are.
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  365.  @guymontag2948  First of all I have listened to them. I've listened to them go on ad nauseam. But whether what they say is true all depends on whether they elect say what is true, and whether they can discern truth in the first place. I've given them a more than fair hearing but I'm quite particular about whom and what I trust and believe, thank you very much. I recommend considering adoption of the same policy.
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  366. 71% of Palestinians say the Oct. 7 atrocities were a "correct" thing to do. Source: Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research, poll of 1,580 adults, mid-March 2024 On that grim note our exchange of views has ended. I cannot receive your replies anymore. I wish you well
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  367. It was a rough December, but the homicide rate has been falling. Counts have drifted down for 5 years as Toronto's population rose by hundreds of thousands. 2021 was an exception, and it's true that counts fell to generational lows in the early 2010s, but the rate is still only about 10% higher than in the early 1970s.
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  368. Help stamp out the plague of adult site spammers on this site! Please downvote posts that lure people to adult site links on their account pages! They're the ones with soft-po photos in their avatars and short, polite, blandly appreciative remarks beside them. Click dislike to help send them down to the bottom. Report as commercial spam. Thanks.
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  369. It's a harmless peaceful country with old ties to Canada and it's been brutally attacked for no reason except that Putin wants to re-extend the Russian Empire. Ukraine didn't even so much as toss a piece of litter over the border into Russia. That's hard to understand? 😂
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  370. Domestic problems don't mean that we can pretend nothing outside Canada matters. There's still a world and Canada is in it. Get real. World War II started and we were still in the Depression, remember. Besides that, the global turmoil that would result from unchecked aggression would cost Canada so much more than the current war that it would make current spending on Ukraine look like lunch money. It would literally be 1000x more.
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  371.  @frankmoon9350  Why t.f. are you telling me this? What in my comment suggested to you that Liberal spending is something I needed to be lectured on? I can be 10x more of a hawk than you on federal debt and still think 1% of the budget should go to the #1 global security problem right now—Ukraine and its defense. I spoke about aid to Ukraine. If you have something to say about that, fine. Go ahead.
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  372.  @frankmoon9350  Irritated by your lecturing manner = "Triggered"? Ok, Moonsie. Whatever you say. Anyway, try to mature a little today. "Yo need it." (You can start with finding out whether someone even disagrees with you before patronizingly lecturing to them. Btw, I am indeed a debt hawk.)
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  373.  @LizaJane17  Agreed. The debt will be forgiven before very long. For my part I think that would be appropriate. I regret the expense, but it's the thing to do.
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  374.  @pacman3556  In 2022 violent incidents on the TTC were up 50% over 2021. Please, educate yourself before posting.
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  375.  @martinc.720  1) I don't like it when people misuse their own language, period. 2) My comment had to do with the video. 3) Your comment seems calculated to offend and I can't call it thoroughly clever either. Find something better to do, please, and have a nice day.
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  376.  @mstar7520  Please see my first reply. Also, I have pointed out that moments earlier the officer had indicated he knew the accident victim was of the male sex. He used "his." There was no remaining ambiguity or doubt. So it's potentially confusing. There were two boys involved, so "They've succumbed to their injuries" can make it seem as though they both died. I was watching but wasn't paying 100% attention, so when I heard that I had to go back to check if I'd heard right.
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  377.  @melodeev5487  'Get with the times' is weak. Being with the times for all but the last maybe sixty years—so for thousands of years, basically—has meant persecution for a lot of people who didn't merit it. I'm surprised to hear anybody exhort anybody on those disreputable grounds.
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  378. Many more comments are usually visible if you Sort by Newest.
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  379.  @KeruxLand  Whatevs. Let's face it, it's been a real team effort. Canadians knew very well that they were putting their own country out of business by going into stores and buying cheap Chinese goods. Now Chinese cars are making inroads into Western markets. Have you been urging the government to increase tariffs on them?
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  380. Quite correct. And the number of miles of track just went down, because we just closed a transit line.😱
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  381. Rumour has it that Toronto Police are racing to Montreal to be their coffee and donut waitresses.
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  382.  @john60123  Maybe calm down a little bit. They caught her didn't they?
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  383.  @Doomsdeath17  It appears she's corrupt but what you say is highly speculative.
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  384.  @thejusticeization  Yeah. I thought so myself.
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  385. @@SHlTPOSTAltAcc Sure it is.🙄 That's why Jews are a minority of the population of Israel and the territories.
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  386.  @goylanddefree80  Ah, you love to throw terms around. "Ethnic cleansing is a purposeful policy of rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove from a given area persons from another ethnic group."—UN As all of Gaza's population is Arab, as it is continuously rising, and as 21% (and rising) of Israel's population is Arab in the areas outside of Gaza and the West Bank you are clearly wrong. Either that or it's the most inept and failed ethnic cleansing in all history.
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  387. Actually, no. Treason is betrayal of your own country and he was loyally serving his own country—i.e. China.
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  388.  @sarahu8090  Random example: Robert F. Kennedy, a beloved political figure in the US, was murdered in cold blood by a Palestinian for reasons related to Israel in 1968. Educate yourself, if you know what education is.
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  389. If the figure went from 41% to 57%, that's worth noting. A higher number makes it harder for govts. to beat up on oil cos.
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  390.  @PolicePaparazzi  I don't know, man. Look at how people drive here now.
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  391. Moreover, that man was against slay very and recommended a gradual ban on the slay very trade in order to get the bill past the entrenched interests in Parliament. Many historians think his idea was for the best.
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  392. Dear CP24: You are a popular target for a lot of Only-Fans-type accounts. I mean adult commercial spam. Can you please assign someone to minimizing this crap? In the meantime I'll do my part and downvote it. Cheers.
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  393. Q: How uneducated and mindless is a news team one of which writes "international exports," another one of which signs off on it, and another one of which reads it on-air? A: About the same as the team in charge in Ottawa. Canada isn't even half the country it was when I was born.
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  394. As befits the Condemner-In-Chief. How can he condemn one group of Canadians or another—about twice every waking hour of every day—if he can't in like manner laud and heap rewards on some other group? 🤔 You know, maybe Divider-In-Chief is more apt.
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  395.  @laurameunier5290  Uh, reading comprehension alert! Irony alert! Emojis that spell it out for you alert! Obvious overstatement alert! And so on...
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  396.  @Gman44324  Yes, and Toronto should've been in quote marks as well.
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  397. "No doubt"? Your sanctimonious speculation is based on what? What evidence do we have? It may be so. It may instead be the case that the would-be hero was a virtual Artie Ziff. We owe our society an adult level of patience before running to comments sections to render our would-be mob verdicts.
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  398.  jakebremin5450  Tbh, you sound like you're begging for some of that.😂
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  399.  @rustyshackleford7265  Hahaha, he kind of set us off with a vague remark didn't he?
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  400. Yes, Canada is sorry it allowed Canada-haters in.
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  401. "Canada left off Gaza border list of countries whose citizens can leave" Should be "Canada not on list of countries whose citizens can leave Gaza"
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  402.  @aminarassoul   "Where would they go?" Omg, how can you ask? They would go southwards. This "prison" narrative is absurd and ridiculous Hamas/Harvard-student rhetoric. It's not a matter of empathizing or not empathizing. It's a matter of whether they can or cannot get out of there. And yes there are vehicles which could be used—that is, if Hamas does not deliberately prevent their being used. Stop weaponizing empathy. You give it a bad name. Stop flinging cheap rhetoric. You're taking a counterfactual side and then pointing a finger at me. Pure sanctimony. Try connecting with reality for a second next time. It's call sane honesty.
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  403. Someone here's confused about the fact he doesn't speak for everybody. Very arrogant attitude.
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  404.  @jumbome7420  Ah. I now realize I meant to say very, very.
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  405. I don't believe for one second that grocery stores are to blame for inflation. Trudeau is desperate and resorting to cheap blame-shifting stunts. This is all about polls and caucus grumbling, not helping consumers. See Wikipedia re: Hand-waving. Explains a lot.
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  406.  @pacman3556  He's making s--- up.
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  407. Wow, they could easily have not made it through that alive.😮 Their willingness to face risks like that is something we all have to really appreciate. Big respect and gratitude.👍
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  408. Hundreds of posts paid for by hostile foreign govts, telling the Canadian govt to spend money on Canadians, not other countries. No mention of Huh Moss, just "other countries."🤨 Plus a few monkey-see-monkey-do Canadian simps chiming in to agree. Guess which hostile foreign govts want Canada not to help anyone?🤔
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  409. Thanks for the fake numbers. (1) "$1.8bn" is 50% higher than the real number. (2) "0.01%" of $1.2bn is $120k. No one is talking about $120k. Police can't respond when calls come in. They would if they could. They can't.
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  410. Those words remind me of nothing so much as the 13-year-old boy (or 15-year-old girl) who yells "You're the worst parents ever!" There is indeed such a thing as bad parents. There is indeed such a thing as the 'worst parents ever.' Some adolescents are right. But most aren't right about their parents and many aren't right about anything at all. In analogous fashion, many governments go to war and many of them are right to do so. And if the rich indulge themselves with exemptions, let it be noted that the rich are too few in number to get the job done anyway. Even if they enlist in outlandishly high rates as in Britain in WWI they still can't make up much of the fighting force. The point is that "toffs" making out all right out of the war doesn't make the war wrong. They make out well perpetually, never mind what's going on in international relations. My last point is one the whole world would be better off and happier for understanding. Envy and resentment fill the universe. But take heart: when wars are finished the rich ordinarily cede some if not very considerable power to their social inferiors, if not out of gratitude then out of guilt. Postwar booms consist largely of such concessions and they shape generations, countries and civilizations. Ozzy Osborne, quick-minded and a good lad in many ways, was a bit too high to get all there is to get.
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  411.  @L98fiero  I'm not that cool with them. I just know that any other way is worse.
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  412.  @L98fiero  You must've loved it in mid-2020 when that woman was stopped on a sidewalk late at night near where she lived and had to apologize to that stranger on her knees. And she had to make it convincing.
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  413.  @L98fiero  Yeah, I bet you don't. We speak different languages. I made it through a good university before The Great Dumbening.
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  414.  @L98fiero  Oh, you mean my last post at that time? If you don't remember that thing happening, just look it up. It was a guy and a woman, the guy stopping her on an empty sidewalk late in the evening and telling her he's BLM and she has to apologize to him, on her knees. Shades of a Cultural Revolution struggle session. He did a few of those.
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  415. Yeah, and a swoss tikka is a religious symbol. The two go hand in glove.
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  416. (1) No vehicle "crashes" into water. Try drives, falls or sinks into. 'Crashes' is illiterate. (2) "Play a factor" is very bad English. Something can play a part, or it can be a factor, but it can't play a factor. Illiterate. (3) Why wait till the final seconds to tell us where this happened? Why on earth?
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  417. What on earth is that thing? Is this a variation on the Manson Family's forehead thing?
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  418. Small head?
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  419. I don't care. Per km driven, 1000 infractions over 2+ years must work out to a low rate.  And if CTV can't prove how many were related to non-emergencies and tell us the figure, they shouldn't run the story. This is why people have low trust of news now. Exaggeration, bias, unprofessionalism, sensationalism, etc. Fake/fake-ish news.
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  420. Ok, that's 6 per day recovered over that time, but 30 a day are being stolen in Toronto. So it's a start. But 20% has to get up to 80% and then a lot of these rings will shut themselves down. Train more squads to open shipping containers or buy X-ray machines. A few million dollars for a billion-dollar problem makes sense.
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  421.  @DanielS-ri1fw  I hope you rethink yours. It's their homeland because there have been Jews in Israel continuously for 4,000 years.
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  422. Dead wrong. Blame the Divider-In-Chief Trudeau instead. Here's a real leader, Pierre Poilievre: “I unequivocally condemn the invasion of Israel by Hamas terrorists and the sadistic violence they have subsequently carried out against innocent civilians. Israel has the right to defend itself against these attacks and respond against the attackers. Canadians pledge their solidarity with all the victims.” It's the left that's anti-Semitic, not conservatives. You didn't know that?🤨Why not? Why on earth not?
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  423.  @scottyP1672  For an expert on political science you sure do have your basic facts backwards. Pro tip, Professor: Any nation with a monarch is by definition not a republic.
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  424.  The Tablet Talks  That site is a joke. Try the Economist Intelligence Unit Safe Cities Index. (1 Copenhagen, 2 Toronto...)
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  425.  @silentmajority8365  Yes they do. What are you, hard of reading? In 2021, Incidents of shots fired: 409; People shot: 209. In 2022: Incidents of shots fired: 379; People shot: 194.
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  426.  @redmoonspider  I know just about everything there is to know about downtown shelters.
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  427.  @salvvilona9078  Says somebody who doesn't even know how YouTube replies work.😄
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  428. Nice try. Polling on parental consent shows strong public support for the kind of action Smith took. Very similar numbers in each province right across the country. Only 10-15% side with the radical activists trying to hijack society. The media are out of touch, which explains their massive wave of layoffs.
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  429. It runs deep, going hand in glove with their mindless, sanctimonious, fundamentalist anti-Americanism. It's hard to know where one starts and the other begins.
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  430.  @bisaiah9797  Go back to your little 4th-rate "university" and get your money back. They robbed you. Edit: Then take that money and spend it on counselling.
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  431.  @Liberal_From_Prairies689    But 74% of Canadians want PM Peter Pan to step down.  Omg, I never knew 74% of Canadians were Russian agents. Shocking. Bro, should I call CSIS or did you already?
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  432.  @GlobexCorporationHank  You don't know me from the wind. But I do now know you: "He who suffers you to impose on him, knows you." — William Blake
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  433.  @Dear--Leader  Where on earth did you come up with 24 murders in Toronto last year? It was 71.
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  434. @@thisguy971 The metro area is around 4.5m but the part of which the mayor of Detroit is mayor is a small part of it.
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  435. Happy highest murder rate in the Western Hemisphere down there.
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  436.  @sw4882  "Tomorrow's forecast date is November 30. If we make a mistake, phone in to win!"
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  437. Well, 71% of Palestinians say the Oct. 7 atrocities were a "correct" thing to do. Source: Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research, poll of 1,580 adults, mid-March 2024
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  438. (1) Rule of English writing: Write sentence, put period or question mark or exclamation point; then start new sentence with a capital letter. (2) This only happened tonight and the police inspector answered questions while the crime scene investigation wasn't even wrapped up yet. Forgive the police if a murder investigation takes more than two hours.😂
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  439.  @cherokeefit4248  Google the 3-word phrase, from the next page choose Images.
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  440.  @Glubtubis_Wepal69  Manifestation in the facial and cranial features depends on how much the mother (and/or other ancestors) drank. Only the worse/worst cases show every feature. His face shows most of them. Absent are a thin upper lip and a particular type of eyelid folds; also doubtful is an underdeveloped jaw, but then the photo angle and the tilt of his head may have something to do with that. I see all the rest of them, thus altogether 4 out of 5 discriminating features, 2 of 4 associated features.
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  441.  @Glubtubis_Wepal69  I'd say it is, but I respect your opinion and I thank you for your reply. Btw, I don't know his name. If there are two accused, we might not be talking about the same one. I mean the one on the right-hand side of the thumbnail. Anyway, cheers and good night.
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  442. She repeats the brand of the car about 10 times. Why? In collision reports the usual word is "car." It seems she wants viewers to suspect or blame the car, not the kid driving it.
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  443.  @familymatters8707  What's the deal with you and the comma key? Are you ok?
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  444. I hesitate to dismiss your point entirely but maybe research a bit and discriminate fairly. There's a wide range, and many developing-world societies are less homicidal than ours. For instance, Canada's homicide rate of 2.3 per 100k is above the median for Asian countries (although below Sri Lanka's at 3.4). Personally I feel that speaking in generalities tends to be helpful, but being specific is also important. For example, maybe Canada should vet more carefully when considering applicants from the #1 most homicidal place on earth, which has 20x our homicide rate. It could at least be discussed.
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  445. Bomb threats are terror activity. It's that simple. But thanks for the input, Mr. Himmler.
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  446. Sure, total and profound immorality wasn't the reason for the double homicide of innocent children, inflation was.🙄 Omg.
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  447. "Adult male" is a term better used for livestock, pets or other animals than people. Applied to human beings, male should be an adjective, not a noun. The proper and respectful term for a male person in his adult years is man.
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  448.  @1985Fritz  That makes chilling and depressing sense. Thanks.
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  449. I'd like to see him get the Mussolini treatment.
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  450.  @vladnovikov4483  You, 22 minutes ago: "You just can't take a stand in a respectful way, can you? That's sad, but it's up to you to try to be a better person." You, 6 minutes ago to someone else: "What's up, Mr Fanboy of DeSantis?"🙄
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  451.  @vladnovikov4483  He crossed no disrespectful line. You did. Anyway, I have better things to do than seek out the opinions of sanctimonious hypocrites, or to try to change them. Thanks, though.
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  452.  @billfarley9167  Harper wasn't as disliked as Trudeau is now. Even while ceding a majority win to Trudeau in 2015 he was about as popular as Trudeau was in 2019 and 2021. Harper, Conservative popular vote in 2015: 32% Trudeau, Liberal popular vote in 2019: 33% Trudeau, Liberal popular vote in 2021: 33%
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  453. Stop spreading poison.
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  454.  @randomrazr  Go on yourself. I registered my point.
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  455. Depends. If the renter has money, it's true. The money can earn a good tax-free return within the RRSP (let's say it's 5%-25% in a run-of-the-mill ETF). For a $2k rental, that's $100-$500 a year, minus the premiums. If the renter doesn't have the deposit in the first place, or isn't going to make an RRSP contribution that year anyway, then it's simply an expense.
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  456.  @jordanlee3078  Quite right: a cop arriving at the accident scene minutes later doesn't just arrest the nearest person walking in the other direction.😂 Nor does he or she come up with a description of a long-gone suspect just by closing his eyes, clenching his fists and saying Abracadabra! So funny.
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  457.  2FLIPS3TWISTS003  Yep.👍 Let me clarify, though, that my problem with the headline is on grounds of illogical language alone, and has nothing to do with my opinion of the situation outlined in the story. According to the headline, he was apologizing for people being angry or "concerned." That's just illogical, since one doesn't apologize for other people's feelings. You can't say "I apologize for your anger." That's absurd. One apologizes for what one has done to cause those feelings. (To me this is axiomatic, meaning I don't have to make a case for it because it's just self-evidently true by definition.) Thanks for your reply.
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  458. What a sorry lot of books on this guy's bookshelf. Omg. Somebody like that shouldn't be interviewed for their opinion on important matters.
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  459. More likely a simmering personal enmity.
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  460.  @checkfactschecking  That's where you're wrong. It's not something. (Except in the incredibly limited sense that this time it wasn't so one-sided.) It's hand-waving and sanctimony, which count for nothing. If one knows that none of the parties involved is interested — and I'm talking zero chance — pretending to address them is entirely for one's own pleasure and benefit.
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  461.  @uplandknight5782  👍Yep, just more horse ca-ca from the Moralizer- and Divider-in-Chief.
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  462.  @ceridangauv3955  For a ceasefire? There was a ceasefire. H^m^s broke it on October 7th.
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  463.  @prakashbhushan7561  Uh, it appears you missed my capital-L in "Liberal." There can't possibly be any objection to calling her a Liberal. It matters which party a politician belongs to!
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  464.  @rtoma76  Or she got briefed but has a hard time remembering stuff, not being so close to hyperintelligent.
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  465. Never ask a G^^^n why over 80% of them swear loyalty to H^^^s.
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  466.  BillyJoeMcallister  Tell it to your TA next time you see her. (Probably at a stuffy church basement meeting of the International Socialists in Portland.) You can't "occupy" or "colonize" your own homeland, one where your people have been continuously for 3,900 or 4,000 years. And it's the P's who are the Neo-N's. Very obviously.
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  467. See what bad drugs'll do to ya? 😄 Stay off them, boys & girls.
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  468. Breaking News: Toronto blacks riot and protest over black violence, gangs and crime in the city, saying it must end now! Nah, I made that up. Not something that would ever happen.
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  469. Back five years ago, the govt. consulted both the OPP and the Toronto Police Service before moving ahead with the colour change. Both forces responded with a thumbs up.
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  470. Profile picture reported for glorification of political violence.👎
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  471. Oh no! Whatever will we do without their tripe?
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  472. Maybe his plane will disappear into a Pacific typhoon. The odds are low, but we can hope.
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  473. Something seems wrong with the arithmetic of the "1 in 10 Torontonians" claim. User visits to pick up food total 2.5 to 3 million per year. But food bank users can visit once per week. So the total visits divided by 52 gives us 48,000 to 58,000 year-round-equivalent users. That raw range is 1.6% to 1.9% of the population of Toronto. Some visits, however, cover multi-person households. Multiplying by the average number of people in a Toronto household (2.4, according to StatsCan) yields 115,000 to 138,000 people. (Food bank users, however, skew towards smaller or single-person households, but let that pass.) This is about 4% of Torontonians, which is a far cry from 10%. I suspect that the food banks are trying to report total unique users visiting at least once per year, a much higher figure based on user registrations. Presumably there are many people who only visit very occasionally, or whose income rises, enabling them to stop getting assistance. But if so, is it right to say that there are 300,000 people "relying" on food banks? (Toronto population 2023 est.: 3.0m.) I also suspect that, since the food banks do not require ID, but just ask for users' names, some users visit multiple food banks and give different names in order to (dishonestly, if perhaps understandably up to a point) be eligible for more food. This would inflate the number of unique users. For these reasons I take "1 in 10" with a grain of salt.
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  474.  @TheJlee28  Your various pithy posts are quite accurate.
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  475. It's true that the homicide rate is about the same as 50 years ago. At that time annual homicides were in the low 40s and the population was 2.1 million. Now it's 2.9 million and we're headed for around 65 homicides this year. (At the early 1970s per-capita rate we would have about 58 or 60.) But I disagree about politeness. People are rude and unfriendly by comparison with even 10 years ago.
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  476.  @tdwz1652  My, how knowing you are! Wow, you've really been around. Tell us kids all about the world! You're so "street"!
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  477. What are you on?🤨
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  478. CP24's headlines are more poorly written every day. "Many Canadians concerned with the economic state, poll" is simply bad English, semi-literate and un-idiomatic. Should be: "Poll: many Canadians worried about the economy"
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  479. We need some real journalism here, not just this lazy "Libs say this, Tories say that." In a Toronto Sun video Brian Lilley shows a table of figures from the Parliamentary Budget Office which shows Carbon-Tax-minus-rebates by province and income group. Trudeau claims 80% get a net refund; the PBO numbers show it's 20%. Well, CP24?
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  480. Politicians at Moncton City Hall: "Well, even the rest of Canada considers Moncton unimportant. So obviously nothing we do will affect what happens in the Middle East. We're powerless. So the best we can do is give the middle finger to Jewish people here in town. At least it's something."
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  481. (1) Cost to replace a Tesla battery: "The cost of a new Tesla battery ranges from $5,000 to $20,000." (Source: Insurify, 2023) Most sources say around $12,000. (2) Lifespan: "A survey of 350 Tesla owners in Europe found that their cars dropped around five percent of their capacity after 50,000 miles before dropping much slower thereafter. The group extrapolated the data to claim they would have lost 20 percent of the original capacity after 500,000 miles." (Source: Inverse) Tesla itself says it their batteries should last 300,000 to 500,000 miles. Their warranty is for 8 years or 150,000 miles. (A Tesla motor has the same warranty and costs $6,000 to replace.) (3) Engines/motors: Please compare this cost, longevity and warranty to those of a gasoline engine. And be sure to compare to premium cars in Tesla's range.  E.g. BMW 3-Series: You can buy a knock-off brand, but "[engines made by BMW itself] cost between $15,000 and $17,000. The labor cost will vary between $2900 and $4000 ." (Source: YourBMWBlog) Total: $17,900-21,000. (4) A gasoline-engine car has a transmission as well. A Tesla doesn't. So you & your upvoters can feel relieved that you were earlier fed misinformation😄.
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  482. What took them so long? They don't give a ff.
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  483. World Trash Association: "Hey, stop comparing us to Olivia Chow!"
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  484.  @thet3504  You mean Layton, but yeah. In its tone your reply seems like it's meant to correct what I said. If so, you totally mistook me. Read it again.😄
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  485.  @thet3504  I want to say you made a good point. Layton may have been a misguided socialist but at least he was an intelligent man and he earned a degree in Political Science at McGill. Chow is definitely not smart and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Guelph.🙄
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  486. Total punk. He's facing quite a bit of confinement once he's in police hands.
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  487. ​ @Viewer-qm3qx  You ought to use Google to test your ideas, not just to try confirming them. Consider the engine, transmission, radiator, starter, alternator, exhaust system, fuel pump and fuel tank of a given BMW which costs the same off the lot as a given Tesla. Those components are the counterparts of a Tesla's battery and motor(s). (It doesn't have to be a BMW. You can choose another premium make and model. Just don't make it a Corolla, Equinox etc.) Find out what it costs to replace these items in the respective cars once each is off warranty and has been driven, say, 300,000 or 400,000 miles. Get back to me if you like.
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  488.  @cacampbell3654  Moi?
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  489. Two min. into the video, the Inspector states "We do not believe the victim was on a bike." So why do the video title, the description and the desk anchor call him a "cyclist"?🤨
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  490.  @mamajuana3603  Not sure what your point is. To follow naming trends slavishly does in fact bear a resemblance to assigning one's child a serial number. So if you're expressing agreement with me, thanks for your reply.
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  491.  @mamajuana3603   Thanks for your opinion. I'm curious whether taking deep breaths is possible for creatures with gills.
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  492. Hamas = ISIS On The Mediterranean
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  493. ​ @UzumakiNaruto_  I agree with all that, although I want to clarify a point about "if Canada had [...] only brought in people who were mostly peaceful, law abiding and hardworking". I believe that most immigrants do already fit that description. The vast majority, no doubt whatsoever. But I will allow that it's probably 99.5% from Japan—yet only 95, 90 or 85% from a small group of other countries with an unfortunately strong culture of criminality across a minority of their people. One country which is a source of immigrants to Canada has a murder rate 25x the Canadian rate (!), 8x even the US rate. Heaven help the country which accepts the wrong people from it. Few people realize what mayhem very small numbers of criminal troublemakers can cause. Consider a hypothetical group of just 100 people on the streets of, say, Toronto, who are addicted to hard drugs. They need anywhere from $50 (Fentanyl) to $500 (cocaine) per day in order to stay high most of the time. They don't have jobs, so they take to shoplifting, stealing bikes, or smashing their way into parked vehicles for valuables. Fencing shoplifted and other stolen goods is not lucrative. Thieves commonly receive 5-10% of retail value. That's $50-$100 for a $1000 bike; $10 for $80 perfume; $20 for a $250 jacket. So that means that for a very minimal $100 a day for drugs, food, drink and other expenses, they need to steal $1,000 or more worth of stuff per day. They may on average need to commit 10 thefts in order to finance that, ranging from failed to petty to more major ones. (A car may turn out to have nothing of value inside, a stolen pair of pants may not find any takers.) One hundred people x 10 crimes a day x 365 days in a year equals 365,000 (!) crimes a year. (These people work 7 days a week.) The total bill to their victims comes to $365,000,000. (So for 300 thieves it's over $1,000,000,000.) Thus it's incredibly important not to allow people in who are prone to end up like that. But how can immigration officials tell? Even in the most chaotic, violent and lawless countries most people are fairly honest and law-abiding. That's the problem and I don't know what to say. People would be up in arms if the government announced Canada will not take immigrants from the most violent or high-crime countries. Canadians want to think of themselves as "nice," even if there's a cost to society for that. They hate harsh realities which come up against their treasured self-image of "niceness." (This self-image, however, is often not justified at all. In fact, the more unjustified it is, often, the more loudly they cling to it and trumpet it.) We live in highly sanctimonious times.
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  494.  @saphire2214  Tell us you're sanctimonious without telling us you're sanctimonious.😂
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  495. Murder rate still around the same as 50 years ago, 2.25 per 100k population vs. 2.0. However, it was quite a bit lower 10 years ago, around 1.5. I think there've been 5 in the past week, but there were a couple of weeks with zero before that.
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  496. Imagine when your 4.4% raise is $620,000.
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  497. Maybe because Hamas runs Gaza, absolutely and with an iron hand. They're ISIS by another name, bro.
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  498. The presenter shouldn't say Eglington. The second g shouldn't be there. (I guess he just moved here.)
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  499. Yesterday's high was 26℃ (79℉ ). That's not "scorching hot." I think your "emergency" is a personal one. I would get that checked out.
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  500. There's no way of knowing if they showed up. The media do not cover protests if they're against Liberal govt policies.
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  501. I like how Ford is going into problem-solving mode. I wish him well. Prime Minister Peter Pan should try to emulate that instead of spending most of his time condemning and denouncing various people, groups and things about once every half an hour. The Divider-In-Chief.
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  502.  @BOLLOCKS1968  Thanks for your reply. That was really interesting and moving as well. You never directly answered my question about a return to a normal level of congeniality towards others, but that's ok because indirectly you gave me a full answer in your whole response! Wishing you all the best in everything, B-1968.
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  503. I disapprove of their practices as much as you do. Probably far more, believe me. But it's not about free speech. Free speech is the prohibition on govts. writing laws that restrict you from saying what you like. (Except for incitement to violence, libel and revealing state secrets vital to national security.) What private companies do has to go by another name.
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  504. CP24, here is a short grammar lesson: "[I]f Trump was re-elected" should've been "If Trump were re-elected." Were, not was. Don't use "was" for a hypothetical or so-called conditional construction like this one. Usage example: It's wrong to say "If he was here, he'd put you in your place." Was is past tense, so logically he must be gone. Someone who's gone can't be here to put someone in their place. It's correct to say "If he were here, he'd put you in your place." Were indicates the hypothetical nature of the proposition that follows. (N.B. In the conditional tense the verb is always were: If he were, if I were, if you were, if they were, if it were, etc.)
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  505. Some random person in Detroit who's been to Canada, reading your comment: "Hey, c'mere. I just read the stupidest comment ever from some Canadian. I'll read it to you for a laugh."
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  506. Such a cunning post: We did not hear the religion of the alleged perpetrator.
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  507. I think it's a misuse of the common word xenophobic when the guy concerned is evidently a native-born Canadian. Xenophobia is a fear or hatred of foreigners. But yeah, he showed that he either lacks verbal talent or has yet to do much reading in his own language, or both, and neither of those should be permissible for a journalist.
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  508. 🙄Seven minutes of this Fine Arts graduate should probably be enough for anyone.
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  509.  @PolicePaparazzi  🙄You took that the wrong way. I meant it as How can you possibly expect it to be any different when it comes to control of dogs?
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  510. Major chains are clearly coping with higher wholesale prices by charging more for some items while charging less for other key products which they believe will get customers in the door. When you see ground beef for $4 a pound and a jar of jam for $6, that's what it's about. They could charge $5 for each, but they're trying to angle for market share, i.e. to compete.
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  511.  @jasonmcbride3226  Well, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe their audited financial statements indicating fairly stable gross and net margins are faked by the major accounting firms. (Maybe they also introduce rat flesh into their store-made sausages, and poison the milk that schoolchildren drink.🙄) After all, if the price of food rises, why search around for explanations when William of Occam taught us that the simplest one is probably the best?—in this case: scheming grocery stores operated by villains with horns and barbed tails.
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  512.  @cleanrunestick3804  Lies are protected speech apart from libel and slander, as I said. Lies are ordinarily a part of the crimes we call fraud as well. But the lies themselves are not the fraud and are thus not the crime either. Really, you never knew it's generally not against the law to tell a lie? You must be really wracking your brain now, trying to figure out why not. Let's just say that just about everybody would be in jail or have a criminal record if it were illegal to lie. The number of criminal cases for lying would number in the hundreds of millions in Canada alone. There would be a million public prosecutors. The law courts would account for 30% of our GDP. I'm being facetious but my point should be clear: society would grind to a halt.
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  513. Downtown East Side. Same as ever. Moss Park is the only neighbourhood in the whole city with 3 murders this year, 10% of the citywide total.
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  514. I don't get how anyone thinks any store owes them a break on the price of anything. If you don't like it, don't give them your business. I doubt Mr. Chapman here is in the habit of lowering his prices for his consulting work (or however he makes his living). In any case, Loblaws' gross margin, an exact reflection of their mark-up, has been pretty stable since rising from 24% in 2011 to 29.4% in 2017. (If a company pays 75¢ for an item and sells it for $1.00, their mark-up is 33.3% and their gross margin is 25%. Note that the company does not disclose their gross margin on food vs. non-food items. It's unlikely they've been trending identically. Non-food items include pharmacy, housewares, personal care items and Joe Fresh clothing.) Loblaws' quarterly gross margins in the past 5 years (Source: YCharts): Latest: 31.38% (Sep 2023) Minimum: 29.92% (Sep 2020) Maximum: 32.37% (Mar 2023) 5-Year Average: 31.29% 5-Year Median: 31.34% Having said all that, I personally felt somewhat bitter about the decreased discount, and in my view the most valuable maxim for any business is: If you want to keep your customers, keep your customers happy. Loblaws has done well in that regard over the years, but like every company it can't afford any major stumbles.
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  515. He makes me want to throw up.🤮 Prime Minister Peter Pan.
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  516. None of the altogether 22 Arab countries will. Between them they have 5 million square miles of territory and 450 million people.
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  517.  @geegeeh.6118  Over two million Arabs live within Israel. They enjoy the full rights of citizenship. In contrast, the position of the Arab world is that the Jewish people should be extirpated from their homeland which they have inhabited continuously for over 3,900 years. Much of it openly declares there must be no place for them on the face of the Earth. Thanks for telling us all about justice.
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  518. Hmm, I seem to remember it was 75.
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  519.  @galaxiedance3135  So about 6-8mpg?
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  520. Publicly saying "no arrests" is smart. It builds the confidence of ring operators they're now watching.
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  521. 🎵"Ding, dong! [etc.]"🎶 At last! She's gone! 🎉🎊🥂 But let's be real about this. She didn't resign, he fired her on Friday. If the boss says "You're gone" and the underling says "I resign," it's a firing. Anyway, it's really starting to look like an election in about 100 days. 🥳
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  522. If you're wondering about inspection of ships' cargo, around the entire world there has always been very little to no inspection of ships leaving any given country. Any inspections done are of ships arriving at ports. It it highly likely to remain that way forever. I hope that answers your question.
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  523.  @dadigitechman  Ok.
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  524.  @TheJlee28  Stop harassing me.
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  525. Wow, 0.6% in March alone. The annual rate, which rose just one click to 2.9%, is misleading in a way. It tells you an awful lot about the rate 13 months earlier. Because that month (in this case March 2023) drops off the data in each report. So any time you see an annual rate change, it's just the difference between 13 months ago and one month ago. Well, 13 months ago, it was a hot month, at 0.5%. So in today's report, it was bound to take a lot of inflation for the rate to stay near to February's annual rate, 2.8%. And so it did: That 0.6% was definitely high. Only March 2023 dropping off kept it from looking as bad as it was. If we'd had a more moderate 0.2%, the annual rate would now be a very promising 2.5%. So we stand at 2.9%, but the last two months have not been good. Together February and March totalled almost a full per cent (0.9%), which is very fast for a mere two months. It's about 6% annualized. One more of these and the Bank of Canada would be well advised to reconsider cutting rates. One more and it'll be just about time to say hello to stagflation.
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  526. Yeah? Well, Russia is getting its balls kicked over and over again and it's going to continue until they fall off. Oops, sorry!
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  527. Tell me where in the world customs officers inspect ships leaving the country as a matter of routine. North Korea, I'd assume. That might be it. Cuba?
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  528. Pinfold's dictum: Two wrongs make a Leftist.
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  529. Moss Park:   <1% of Toronto's population (22,000 out of 2,900,000) 10% of Toronto's homicides in 2023 (7 out of 73) Very diverse, I can tell you.
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  530.  @chrisconrad4441  Seems unlikely. For all 2023, 51 Division, of which Moss Park is a fairly small part, had 10 homicides. Also, in August the entire city had 7 homicides. So perhaps the figure you cite was shootings and stabbings, and most of the victims survived? (Btw, I wouldn't describe the zone within those boundaries as "one square block." It contains several blocks and would therefore be properly called a neighbourhood, or area.)
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  531. What are you talking about? Foreign speculators are a great target.
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  532.  @dynamicbrickandstoneltd92  Yes, but more will go when it's legal.
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  533. Their caucuses are headed for some severe shrinkage.
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  534. 🙄You just made that up. There have always been safer cities than Toronto (e.g. Tokyo, London and many European cities). In the past 50-60 years the rolling 3- or 5-yr. avg. homicide rate has ranged between 1.5 and 2.5 per 100k. Low but not exceptionally low, let alone lowest in the world. Same for other violent crime.
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  535. @@user-fh8gt9nw5f Prime Minister Peter Pan regards Americans whose grandparents were born in the US as the worst people on earth. After that, Canadians whose grandparents were born in Canada. Everyone else in the world is far, far more worthy in moral terms. However, he makes exceptions for people in the first two categories if they're politically far left—like him. They're marvellous people. And there you have his complete scheme of values.
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  536. ?? I've read over 100 comments, all blaming the cyclist.
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  537. Yasser Arafat was an Egyptian.😂 Your point?
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  538. Ask their mother.
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  539.  @moriqana3679  This is why you're still a constable and will never make detective.
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  540.  @GrantM.-gx2kn  Forgive me, but the point of your reply isn't clear to me. Seems interesting but just how, I'm unable to grasp. Is it a brain-teaser?
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  541.  @tocarules  I'm certain a lot of that's true, although close to none of it's germane to this instance. Here it was just incompetence. Still interesting though, and I salute your attentiveness to spin in any case. It's the work of a lifetime to attune oneself to it. (From this point on I'm just rambling and you probably shouldn't read it. Sometimes I just write to find out what I think.) Twice as hard yet is to stop yourself from seeing it when it's not even there or only in trace amounts. There's always the element of people trying (and either failing or succeeding) to do their jobs well. There's always people new in their positions, people on the verge of getting fired, people hung over or on drugs at that very moment, people sucking up or (not too likely) rebelling. It's also a challenge to keep up with changing currents in technique, the degeneration of the j-schools, the rot in the minds of the readership, changing vocabulary, and all the rest. Human motivations never change but which ones are dominant and the forms they take morph day and night, year by year. So having a well-thought-out opinion is not automatically an accomplishment of any sort, it's being right that counts. Any analysis of things at the 98th percentile or below isn't much good. Like you, I gather, I've been a student of all of it for a long time. I've watched and read the news since I was 10 or 12 and indirectly it's been my bread and butter. Thanks for your interesting reply and sorry for blathering on. My compliments to you on your style and clarity.
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  542.  @Cutlerypotato  It is, but now you really are cavilling. To shoot may be to: [K]ill or wound (a person or animal) with a bullet or arrow. Example: "he was shot in the leg during an armed robbery"; or: [F]ire a bullet from a gun or discharge an arrow from a bow. Example: "he shot at me twice" —Oxford Dictionaries And the word used in the headline was shooting, the gerund of shoot, clearly in reference to the shooting of a man, not of a gun. "Man injured following the shooting of a gun" is preposterous, as would be "Man injured by the slashing action of a knife wielded by another person." Man shot or Man slashed would be the best ways to express such things.
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  543.  @Cutlerypotato  Stop pestering me, jacka🤡🤡.
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  544. There's many thousands more like him lurking in every institution in the country.
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  545.  @canadianshield5143  Simmer down. Breathe. Re-read. Re-read every word. Think.
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  546. 🤔Who would do a more devastating impression of Freeland: Catherine O'Hara or Andrea Martin?😄
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  547.  @craighuntley6547  And who's sending up the price of homes? Largely investors, domestic and foreign, who engage in bidding wars, the winners then renting them out at exorbitant prices. Mortgages aren't insane, btw. They remain historically low to moderate. Check out WOWA's chart showing Canada Mortgage Rates History (1975 to 2023) You'll see in an instant how wrong you are.
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  548. ​ @craighuntley6547  Of course supply and demand is "the issue." That's what sets prices. But you're getting too basic here. Your point is like when a couple is discussing their strained finances and one says "The problem is we're spending way too much" [i.e. demand]. The other replies "Oh no, the problem is you don't make nearly enough! [i.e. supply]. As long as you make more it won't matter how much we spend, darling." That retort is true from a certain unrealistic point of view, but just as there's no lever marked "Pull For a Much Higher Salary," there's no lever marked "Pull For More Housing Now." Governments took that lever and smashed it long ago. They won't permit nearly enough building. What they do permit, i.e. a dotting of condo towers, is priced way out of range for most people. So the vast majority of units are snapped up by investors who intend never to occupy them, and they leave half of them vacant anyway. This is because so many rich buyers consider tenants a nuisance and the potential rent income a mere rounding error in comparison with the real aim of capital gains. In short, investors know that nothing is about to change, which makes the situation for the time being a workable Ponzi scheme. The fundamentals dictate that money will keep flowing in to support prices. Half-a-million to a million new residents a year with little being built for them means it's an ongoing party (greedfest might be a good word) for landlords—at the expense of wage earners.
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  549. That simply is not a garment to wear when delivering the news of the world to an audience. All credibility: Poof! [gone]
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  550.  @Vortexone112  If you have to ask you'll never know.
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  551. No. Not everybody does that. You just said everybody is dishonest in his or her job. Elizabeth Holmes: "What's the big deal about a few billion dollars in fraud? Everybody does it." Jeffrey Dahmer: "Hey, come on. Everybody murders a few people from time to time." Cain: "You tryna tell me you never killed one of your siblings before?"
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  552.  @joelsterling1445  Why split hairs? You could easily throw a rock onto the 400 from the back of the Cineplex. Weston is actually farther.
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  553.  @JUSTICEK  Thanks for doing CP24's job.👍
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  554. Which stations closed?🤔
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  555.  @chrislim7976  Name a station that has been closed so I can try to verify that any have closed.
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  556.  @chrislim7976  No, I knew that. I was just trying to learn something. Cheers.
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  557. She went wrong when she chose to live at Dufferin and Eglinton.😄
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  558. I don't know. Gross person that he was, at least Epstein paid his victims handsomely and allowed them to live.
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  559. * 54-year-old. But I agree with the rest.
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  560. @@metanomena So? The overwhelming likelihood is that the OP is right.
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  561.  @helenapawl1049  Can't tell if that expresses approval or disapproval.🤔
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  562. You: "Almost immediately" Facts: They arrested one of the hate-crime vandals 4 days later. They arrested the other 10 a further 10 days later. Total: 2 weeks.
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  563.  @americaofthenorth655  The investigation of that Indigo hate crime should not bother anyone (since it's totally normal police work). Unless, that is, they think that Kristallnacht (1938) was a mostly peaceful and cozy gathering. As for carjackings, I have zero doubt they are promptly and vigorously investigated by the TPS. Zero. If you think that they are not prioritized like the serious violent crimes they are, I'd like to look at your evidence for that belief. Seriously, if that were the case I'd like to know. So get back to me with that evidence so I can start raising hell about it. I'm waiting. Ordinary car thefts are a serious problem in their own way, to be sure. They really upset those whose vehicles go missing and disrupt their lives. That's why I'm glad to see the province respond with this increased funding. It's what you yourself want as well, yet instead of saying "Good!", you complain as though Ford just announced he was slashing police funding by $18m.🤨 But I understand, in a way. Hyperpartisanship is a popular way for people to spend their time enjoyably and kid themselves that it makes them a good person, that it makes society better, etc. Thanks for your reply.
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  564. Why? Honda could've gotten that much out of many places in many countries. That's the world today and I'm glad Ontario knows how to live in it. Never mind the $5bn, I say. Moreover, this enterprise is going to be a fountain of tax payments of one sort or another to Ontario and Canada for a very long time. It's a good thing this happened.
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  565. Prime Minister Peter Pan considers it worse than a schoolteacher taking advantage of a young student. Way worse.
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  566. Something to do with drugs. Whenever you're out in public and you see something mysterious that makes no sense, that's the answer most of the time. So I'd say he was high, or he was on his way to buy or sell drugs and felt he had no choice but to ignore it and keep going.
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  567. Bad as they wanna be
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  568.  @Jojo-o6o6w  If you Google your question you'll find that it's not outrageously unlikely. It depends on how you land, what you land on, and your age. One source claims the chance of surviving a fall of 48 feet is 50%. (Falling from the 6th floor means there are 5 storeys below you, which in a residential building may be just 45-50 feet.)
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  569. I of course see the same kinds of things all the time. But did you witness this accident?🤨This accident is all that matters in the present discussion. Never forget to be logical.
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  570. 🤨Why does this Peter Pan spend half his time making statements of condemnation or making pompous demands of people who don't answer to him? I bet many of them never even heard of him. I don't think he's okay. He seems deluded about his importance in the world. Not even many Canadians care what he says. He also looks a wreck.
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  571.  @arcaderdude  Yes they did, although it was mumbled, likely due to not knowing how to pronounce it.
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  572. Can't agree with you. All they know is the name and the charges. When you only have a little information, why draw it out for nothing?
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  573. It was leftist anti-Semites.
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  574. Hey, where's the RCMP? I thought they arrest people for things like that. They arrested David Menzies and he didn't try to grab anything from anyone. Canada under Trudeau gets more like pre-Revolutionary France or the PRC every day.
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  575.  @mangaas  😥 😆Называть так русским куском собачьих экскрементов - одно удовольствие. 😄
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  576.  @estebanslavidastic4382  I couldn't give a s---, "bro", any more than you care that there's no 'e' in cringy.
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  577.  @dunsinajayi7874  I don't know. I know that the US has a right to be in the air over the Black Sea every bit as much as the Atlantic. Russia probably wanted to do something unobserved, presumably deploying battlefield resources in advance of an offensive.
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  578.  @jamesbrennenman8671  Oh, we're counting now, are we? All right, let's have it your way: Totals, please. And sources. And be sure to give us recent numbers, not just ones from 30+ years ago. 🤨
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  579.  @ddhqj2023  All that is nothing in light of how problems have vastly multiplied. People are poorer as real incomes have fallen.   Violent crime has risen steadily since he came into office. Living standards have fallen.   Drug use and drug overdoses are up.   House affordability has cratered, rents have more than doubled. Race animosity keeps rising the more he keeps inciting it. Canadians are more divided than ever. Trudeau picks sides on every issue and denounces those who disagree with him whether they're the majority or minority. He preaches a high-strung intolerance. In measures of well-being, where we might have once been in the top five or ten worldwide (and we were), we're now 15th or 20th or lower.   Our standing in the world has plunged. The signs are clear we're now much less respected. Canadian business has been totally hollowed out. Innovation has totally dried up.  Where once Canada would produce sizeable and successful companies to compete on the world stage, there's been one in the last decade, Shopify. Our allies have turned their backs on us, regarding us as untrustworthy and incapable. Within the G7, the other countries hold meetings and don't invite Canada. AUKUS was formed by our closest partners and they excluded us. Health care is strained to the limit and it's affecting many people's well-being and lives.  Homelessness keeps going up and up.   Not just overdoses but suicides and other deaths of despair have risen.   We've dropped several places in the rankings of the world happiness index.   Likewise the freedom and democracy indexes.   He makes people register their podcasts with the government now (!) so they're subject to censorship.   National unity is at its weakest in over a generation as Trudeau keeps alienating people in the western provinces. I don't have all night to go on, but if I wanted to I certainly could. I don't want to. It's sickening. Thanks for your terribly interesting reply.
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  580.  @mikeb5664  I love it that you came up with that vacuous response. It's comforting that that's all Peter Pan's fanboys have. (Btw, before PM Namby-Pamby I was a lifelong Liberal, even staff in a Liberal cabinet.)
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  581. That opening piece was a cheap stunt. This is why media trust and ratings are so low.
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  582. @@metanomena Sure, that's why parents are happy when their daughter chooses to be a prostitute. That's why the women themselves are proud. That's why there are college programs in how to be a whore. Your moral relativism is really helping society. Congratulations.
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  583. (1) I find it highly revealing that "PFLAG," a lesbian and gay group, is entering this discussion, when it's about so-called trans kids. Almost like they're admitting that trans kids are really just lesbians and gays. (I believe that's what the vast majority of them really are. What's going on is that gay kids are being sterilized. Shades of a hundred years ago.) (2) Re the interview portion, all I can say besides What nonsense! is Please, somebody gouge my eyes out!
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  584. Sit down. Few to no details are given till the next of kin are notified.
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  585. 90% of the US media is out to get Tesla because Musk stopped supporting Biden. There's a constant flood of hit pieces. Yet there are no reports of Tesla hacking. If such a thing ever happened, the media would make it the story of the year. Yet you claim it's "a fact that all electric cars can be hacked."😂 Wow, dude.
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  586. What's wrong with it?
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  587. You're doing something wrong. PC OJ is $2.49 this week with the card, $2.99 without. Fresh-squeezed, better than NN. I have an easy time finding OJ for $3 or less at Loblaws (or the 2.5L size for $5). I just buy multiple jugs on sale and it always lasts till the next sale. Always.
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  588. Time to shut down YouTube comments. It's 90% Rush ins or others from the Authoritarian Axis. Sickening.🤮
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  589. I thought the term was ghost bike.
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  590.  @XetaXones  Yeah. I'd like to think they're just drinking or they're on something. But nah, that's not what it's about. Btw, for a very, very, very coarse laugh watch For the Chance Norm & Gilbert
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  591. All three big chains' audited financial statements are available online. You should just see for yourself instead of saying "I bet." Why speculate when all you have to do is look it up? Btw, the past year's inflation means that a rise in profits of 5% or even a bit more is really no rise at all. Same goes for every business in the country. Keep that in mind.
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  592. Ford has hit his stride in the past year and is doing a lot of good things for the province. Such a relief after the McGuinty-Wynne era of such profound deterioration that it took his first term just to bring it to a stop. And to get anything done while Trudeau is in office isn't far short of amazing.
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  593. I'm in favour of this. They have receipt checking at Costco, the best retailer in Canada, and it keeps the shoplifters out and prices down. However, if just getting rid of self-checkouts would accomplish the same thing, that'd probably be even better.
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  594. That's true, but do we know exactly why this killing happened? Conceivably it had to do with political radicalism. (Someone else here asserted it happened on a First Nations reservation. If so, we will wait to hear whether sheer hostility to the authority of non-indigenous police had anything to do with it.)
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  595. The so-called 'recall' was an over-the-air software tweak. It was to increase the font size of the screen alert that says "Put your hands back on the wheel," or words to that effect. Also, there's now an eye-catching blue-coloured background surrounding the message. This was all that resulted from a 2-year scrutiny of Autopilot by the federal NHTSA agency, ordered by Biden after Musk announced that he wasn't voting Democratic anymore.
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  596. He was more of a pimp. It can hardly be that he was an aberration, btw. There must be a bunch more of his calibre in operation in the haut monde/beau monde, now as throughout all time.
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  597.  @khizerqureshi2492  Hundreds of billions of dollars? Eh? You lost me when you started out-Peskoving Peskov himself there. Ukraine's allies have vastly more financial and economic resources left than Russia and its merry band of meatpacking glitterati.
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  598. Tumbleweed: [Yawn] "What could be more boring? I'm outta here." Crickets: "Wait for us!"
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  599.  @1madmaxx80  "He's a good boy. He tryna get his life together."
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  600. We 'would of' prevented this deterioration if we weren't such a bunch of 'loosers.'
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  601. No, it was planned by Hamas and Iran.
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  602.  @jannalam6861  Read the original post in this thread again.
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  603. ​@@MaxImus-theoneandonly Lou Reed: "I came, I saw / I declared martial law / 'Cause I'm the marshall in the city" Pretty good song.
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  604. Keeping an eye on Russian s k um from international airspace. How can you ask?
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  605. Fair point, but I watch life closely for euphemisms and ETF isn't much of one in my opinion. SWAT and ETF are both made up of innocuous words except for weapons and force, and those two sort of cancel each other out. The idea of 'swatting' evildoers is there in SWAT, yeah, but it lost its impact on me soon after I first heard it as a boy.
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  606. Clowns will resent that comparison.
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  607.  @davidkaneva9674  Nice try, Comrade Davidovich. If it were over Russian territory they would've been within their rights to shoot it down and the US would've been unable to recover it. You're really not very good at this. Putzin will have you flung from a window.
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  608.  @davidkaneva9674  Do you like the fact that your government murd e r s Ukrainian babies? Answer me that. Wait don't bother. I know the answer.
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  609. 🤨Excuse me, but 41% isn't "nearly half." Think of a referendum where the vote is 59% to 41%. No one would say that's close. Stuff like this is why the media is so despised now. You can't watch 15 seconds without noticing something senseless.
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  610.  @Dam-a-fence  "A near miss is a collision" I don't know if you're serious or not, but I hope you aren't because that's absurd.
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  611.  @Dam-a-fence  What I really like finding out from people are the things they really know a lot about. Tell me, what are the 10 best cheap beers suitable for drinking all evening long after supper?
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  612. @@toppa7954 Nice comments. Sounds like you're working on Mein Kampf 2.0.
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  613. So sad how Iran is held hostage by its theocracy of backward country bumpkins. It has little support from the civilized, the educated and the young, most of whom would love to resume close relations to the West. What a nightmare 45 years it's been for that country....and its neighbours and the whole region, thanks to the brutal regime.
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  614.  @thet3504  Yes, that's what everybody says who was around at the time. The SAVAK secret police were a terror to religious-fundamentalist and communist dissidents, but life for most people was incomparably more relaxed and enjoyable, and the sense of economic progress and cultural achievement was a major source of satisfaction. Iran should've stuck with the "tyrant" they knew. His regime would've mellowed and probably gradually democratized over time. The current one never will.
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  615. Thank PM Peter Pan and the Liberals for this. They've worked overtime to demonize the grocery business for high prices, to shift blame away from their policies: from the Carbon Tax to devastating the economy during the 2020-22 health event, and then overstimulating it recklessly with borrowed money. All of that was inflationary. They need to go.
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  616. World Creep Council: "Hey, we've got enough problems. Stop comparing us to that sub-rodent."
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  617.  @mnufeld8448  Yes you're right, but so what? The point is she's dying inside, like when out of a feeling of moral obligation you're being nice to a raving homeless person and the stench is terrible.
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  618.  @mnufeld8448  For so very many reasons it is bad to get drunk and then go on YouTube to write rambling, lightly-informed and pointless replies to people, having not properly read and understood what they wrote in the first place. For one thing it's bad manners. For another, those who quite understandably get irritated by such antics simply mute them.
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  619. Could this have anything to do with the explosion in the number of pit bulls I see around town? I thought they were banned. (Btw, the anchor is in inappropriately casual girlwear for a serious job like bringing people the news of the world.)
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  620.  @lindybermondsey1783  Thanks. I don't think I've ever used, read or heard it in my life, but I thought it seemed the right word.
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  621. Over $25bn in public money blown on this by the government of PM Peter Pan.😮 Where did it all go? Media: [Crickets] It was supposed to cost around $6bn and now it's over $35bn.🤯 Let's have a Royal Commission to examine how much ended up in Liberal Party of Canada coffers. Remember the Sponsorship Scandal anyone?
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  622. The ironically-named Ms. Freeland and PM Peter Pan are clearly on a charm offensive. They're trying to rescue her approval ratings in advance of him putting on his magic slippers, flying off into the night and leaving things in her hands. They're hoping to hang onto power one more time. But nah, she's Kim Campbell 2.0.
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  623. So many here are saying those charged are out on bail. How do they know? Nothing to indicate it in the info on the TPS site. If it's true, I'd like to confirm it.
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  624. ​ @user-fy5ih5it1y  Jamaica has the world's highest intentional homicide rate. You didn't know that? It's 25 times that of Canada. See Wikipedia's List of Countries by Intentional Homicide Rate.
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  625. ​ @ABCD-xg6nr  Ha! Left-wingers devised the useful term dogwhistle and I'm invoking it here. "Ceasefire," "pro-Palestine" and "From the river to the sea" are dogwhistles, bruh, motivated by hate. They never once marched against H^^^^. No chants. No tears. No rallies. No demands that H^^^^ stop firing rockets at Is rael i cities and towns. No neutrality. No authentic humanitarianism. Just crickets and tumbleweeds on the savagery unleashed by H^^^^. Oh and by the way, there already was a ceasefire. H^^^^ broke it on October 7. Have a nice day.
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  626.  @nearcancelled  The reporter? No, I never referred to the reporter.
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  627. It's actually in dictionaries of some repute, but I don't see in my online Concise Oxford. It's a noun form of adventure, e.g. "She decided to put a stop to her adventuring."
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  628. This was more than likely related to the drug trade.😡
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  629. What I'm curious about is the connection between their breakup and that suddenly-appearing mark on Trudeau's forehead. Or should I say injury? And has she been seen in public? Is she injured too? What went on in their house?
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  630.  @user-zr6pl6nb6z  Where did you learn that they do not? Share your learning, evidence and direct experience with us.
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  631.  @7555mac   Homicides, 2022: Detroit: 309. Per 100k population: 49.8 Barrie: 4. Per 100k: 2.6 [Highest rate in World: Jamaica, 52.1] Sources: Detroit — Center for Public Safety Initiatives, Rochester Institute of Technology; US Census Bureau Barrie — Statistics Canada. World homicide rates — Wikipedia's List of Countries by Intentional Homicide Rate
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  632.  @yukaira  Is my post here about homicide rates (1 hr. after yours) visible to you? Y/N?
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  633. @@MaxImus-theoneandonly Are my 2 prev. posts in this thread showing?
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  634. How embarrassing it is to watch as Mayor Chow struggles to understand what she's talking about. Mediocre minds are drawn to the NDP like moths to a flame in the first place and are little improved by membership in it for 40 or 50 years. The strained TPS must be given the $20m increase, and more.
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  635. Not Israelis, anyway. It's all part of the Iranian plan.
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  636. I'm tense every time I say that word. I don't know where I stand on saying the 2nd t. If I shouldn't say it, or I should say it just the least possible. (Nobody gives it a full-on 't' unless they grew up in another country.) The mayor and probably most elite Torontonians go for the 'least possible,' but people who drop it altogether sound like they have more conviction. This goes on for me, decade after decade🤨, but ter-ON-oh. has the edge.
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  637. Police salaries are the last thing the city ought to cut. Try those of the bloated bureaucracy at city hall. And reduce their number as well.
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  638. Super-hyper-mega-intelligent aliens closely analyzing every scrap of data would conclude in 3/100,000ths of a second that Prime Minister Peter Pan is determined to destroy Canada. Much tougher for them to figure out: Why on earth he'd want to.🤔
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  639. Long live a safe and secure Israel!🇮🇱 And a hearty salute to the memory of those who arranged for its people to finally have a tiny home amidst the vastness of the 5 million square miles of the 22 countries which are home to its Semitic cousins, after so many centuries without one!
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  640. Elon Musk threatened the same action against OpenAI and its main backer Microsoft several months ago, saying they were harvesting data from Twitter in a similar fashion. But for some reason the suit hasn't been filed.
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  641. At the same time he abolished a different tax that raised more money.
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  642. Loblaws' marked-down produce is absolutely appalling. Don't buy it. They have a lot of nerve to sell extremely deteriorated, spoiled food even at 50% off. 90% off would be unreasonable, since It entirely merits being put out for composting. And now it's being jacked up to 30% off? Beyond unacceptable.
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  643. Yes, the media usually does, but not this time. You were listening, weren't you? The untruthful and manipulative statements here came from Joly's office. (Quelle surprise!🙄)
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  644.  @never51st  I bet a lot of them would rather support the NDP but feel it's strategically better to back the local Liberal candidate in any riding where voting NDP might hand the seat to the Conservatives.
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  645. Past a certain point, techniques of evasion proliferate. Buyers just get some relative in Canada to make the purchase on their behalf. It'd be better to increase supply while trimming immigration, which right now has Canada's population growing faster than all but a few out-of-control African countries.
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  646. It's oil, bro. Foreign aid has remained pretty stable over the decades. But this funding of Hum Oss has to end.
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  647. You're projecting your sense of your own truthfulness onto other entities. Sad.
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  648. No grants, no plants. No plants means a hole in govt revenues, lower employment, lower GDP, weaker economy, consumer dollars supporting workers in other countries. No one likes it, but we have to deal with the world as we find it, not as we would like it to be.
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  649. Ford wants a new law on vapes?
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  650. If you ask me, unless there's proof of collusion the grocery chains can charge whatever they like. The resort for consumers is public pressure and that's all. In any case, I've heard of zero evidence that the chains' profit margins are rising significantly if at all. But I've heard lots about them squeezing their suppliers dry in an effort to hold the line on prices. Trudeau is just setting up his emerging rival, Champagne, for failure and ridicule. Most cunning PM ever.
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  651.  @vladnovikov4483  Listen to yourself. Listen to yourself defending Prime Minister Peter Pan for praising an authoritarian, dictatorial regime. He was an MP at the time and had been one for five years and moreover it was one year into his leadership bid. And it was days before his 42nd birthday. "Potty" indeed! It's very, very low-grade spin you come up with, which is fitting for your hero, a very, very low-grade prime minister.
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  652.  @BobBeyers  No, you have them confused with left wingers. Left wingers love authoritarianism. The more it prospers, the better off they are. You didn't know that?🤨
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  653. Just so everyone knows, gasoline- and diesel-powered cars catch fire at roughly 10x the rate per mile of EVs. Some authorities say it's higher, ranging up to 20x. Interestingly, hybrids are the worst by far, up to 60x EVs. (Nothing against CP24, which didn't mention fire rates here! But watching/reading the news with implicit trust, without great care and caution, invariably leads to a messed-up view of the world.)
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  654.  @blurtam188  "Premiere" lol Like it's opening night. In show business, are you? A big star?😂
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  655.  @EthanKironus8067  I make remarks on a range of things which themselves range in importance. Don't police my subject matter. Responding to author's warrantless contention about Ford was not worth my care.
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  656. It's very true that governments negligently ignored massive and lasting potential harms from their policies, and mental health was certainly one of them. They unleashed a wrecking ball on our society, the damage will resound down the decades, and they will never pay for it.
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  657.  augustopinochet5346  I said "negligently ignored". What are you, hard of reading?
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  658. The evidence that after 8 years of Trudeau, Canada is held in contempt by the whole world accumulates daily. Just throw it on the pile.
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  659.  @jimdean5333  Bear in mind that I said I'm not sure what the video has to do with Jamaica. The video. I didn't say crime in Canada has nothing to do with Jamaica. And I'll leave it there. Thank you very much for your reply.👍 All the best to you.
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  660.  @letstrythisagain5096  You can blame the criminals and blame others too. Imagine for instance that the homicide clearance rate in your city were 15%. It's the murderers who have done the heavy lifting of course. But the police department has been very ineffective in mounting a deterrent to committing murder. Isn't is possible that the way cars are designed and equipped makes them too easy to steal? I don't know. But I'll venture to say that some brands must be better than others.
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  661.  @kuruptzZz  There's some (drunk?) guy in this thread who says that's bs. I guess all cars and trucks are totally secure, it's just that the thieves are so evil they can cast spells on the anti-theft systems.😂 They're more witches than thieves.
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  662. "Toronto Public Health put out a video" about this? Are you serious? You mean the Toronto Humane Society. You do a story on something that isn't even a story, and then you blunder like that... And look at the video title, also botched: "Attached with note" should be "with note attached." How appalling that people who write for a living cannot write. Hire some competent and qualified people.
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  663.  @MikeMan-q4v  Very well, 'direct connection' if you like. Name all the malls on subway lines lacking access tunnels right into them.
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  664. Please always downvote posts with soft-po avatars, advertising 'adult' content. Every downvote sends them a little closer to the bottom, where they'll languish unnoticed. (On an unrelated note, please always upvote my posts. Every upvote sends them a little closer to the top where they'll be noticed more.😆)
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  665. ​ @vladnovikov4483  <--- "[U]se you head and think. Once you sober up." Well, well, well, if Mr. Civility doesn't strike again! Mr. Butter Wouldn't Melt in His Mouth, who dresses down those who disagree with him (yesterday: "You just can't take a stand in a respectful way, can you? That's sad, but it's up to you to try to be a better person.")😂 but who transforms in an instant into Mr. Trump-esque, returning mild dismissiveness with guns blazing. 👏[very]👏[slow]👏[clapping]
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  666. There's absolutely nothing 'un-Canadian' about being Jewish or attending a Jewish school, and calling for Jews to leave Canada is an abominable suggestion. Obvious hate speech. Thanks for showing us your true colours, Mrs. Goebbels.😠
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  667. 👍As an aside I want to commend Poilievre on his style makeover. Shows he can take advice, I would imagine. Also great that he doesn't sound like a 14-yr-old girl, like someone else who shall remain unnamed.
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  668. I don't see the problem as long as he makes an appearance at every one of these things whether it's Liberal, Conservative, NDP, whatever. It's only partisan if he just goes to the Liberal events.
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  669. Hamas spokesman on Lebanese TV two months ago: "We are not sorry, we are proud, and October the 7th is just the beginning. There will be an October the 8th, October the 9th, October the 10th ... October the One Millionth!" Yet you speak of "talking to Hamas"! 🙄
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  670.  @Scotian6444  "you can cry a river." 👈👏👏👏 Or as I would've put it: Crimea river.😆😆
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  671.  @northstar1060  Crimea river
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  672.  @northstar1060  Here is a puckered brown one. Enjoy.
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  673.  @RisetoStrength  Sorry, I thought you were the OP. As for your other points, they're correct (although one of them was questionably worded), but they're already things I knew and believed.
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  674. Earlier than that. Psychologists and other researchers have traced these problems back to the emergence of social media and the introduction of the iPhone. The iPhone came out in 2007 and Facebook became the most popular internet site in 2008. There was a particular worsening of the problem around 2012. And of course it really all goes back to the infiltration of university faculties by "New Leftists," inspired by marxists of the Frankfurt School and marxist French academics, which occurred in the early 1970s.
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  675.  @EyeForEye-i9l  I'm blaming only Hamas. Hamas commits systemic injustices. Hamas is the oppressor. I hate the reek of immorality around anyone who can't or who refuses to accept these things. It stinks up the whole world.
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  676.  @VisualizeMz  You're right. Perhaps I could've just said Wow too.
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  677. Naturally. The more anybody messes with Conservative MPs in underhanded or criminal ways, the better off the Liberals are. On a large enough scale it could ensure that they form the government of Canada forever. And if anybody on earth knows which side of his bread the butter's on, it's Justin Ocasio Cortez.
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  678.  @deathmauler181  Ha! Don't kid yourself. Put your imagination to work and think how it would go if the protest were against any demographic or political group of whatever kind which is deemed specially and intrinsically wonderful by the left and their simps/confederates in the media, govt. and academia. No other context matters — none.
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  679. (1) Wow, so many years into this crisis and only now is it getting government attention? (2) What makes Trudeau think developers are clueless as to how to build a house or small apartment block? (3) Can you say "style-deficient, unattractive, Soviet-looking, cookie-cutter future slum tenements"?
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  680.  @grapesofhypocrisy9842  I've looked at the table with my own two eyes. Only the bottom quintile of households by income get a net rebate.
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  681.  @tylerfloodgate  You're already learning. Give yourself a pat.
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  682. "Single vehicle crash sends man to hospital." "No injuries have been reported in the crash." Cool story. Tickles the brain.😂
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  683.  @cdb5001  Do you have amnesia? Everything to do with the pandemic was far more serious in 2021 than 2022. So 2022 'should have' rebounded with more homicides than 2021, but it didn't.
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  684. ​ @cdb5001  As the pandemic eased in 2022, homicides fell 16% in the city of Toronto. That's according to the Toronto Police. The one trying to bend reality to his whim is you.
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  685.  @cdb5001  Yes, I misread the Statscan table. I quoted the Canada row, which was one row above the Toronto row.🙄 Yes, the Toronto CMA rate in 2018 spiked way higher. The German stats company Statista puts the Statscan data into a chart titled "Homicide rate in Toronto, Ontario in Canada between 2000 and 2021". The trend over this time is shown clearly.
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  686.  @cdb5001  Btw, Statscan disagrees with your statement that Toronto had the highest homicide rate of any major city in Canada in 2018. Edmonton and Winnipeg had higher rates, as did five other CMAs (Windsor, Saskatoon, etc.) The Toronto rate dropped back below the national rate in 2020 and 2021. The City of Toronto proper had the lowest number in 2022 (70) since 2015. And the number of shooting victims (194 injured or killed) appeared to be far below levels seen in the 2010s (2018: 604). The latter levels are shown in a table in the same Wikipedia article you quoted in your last reply. Finally, to repeat myself, the count so far in 2023, which is 3, bodes well for this year. ————————————— My point in all this is not to paint a rosy picture. In recent years the homicide rate in Toronto has been 50-100% higher than in Montreal, and in 2018 and 2019 it was higher than the rate for Canada as a whole. Governments have to show more determination to investigate, prosecute and generally fight organized crime any way they can. My point was just to encourage looking at all the facts, not just the worst and scariest ones.
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  687.  @pacman3556  The poster said "TTC officers", not "employees", vehicle operators, etc. The reference was obviously to security staff.
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  688.  @frgartner8446  Ironically, that in itself is a perfectly mid-wit thing to say. Saddening.
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  689.  @Finglebangle  Check your roof. I expect you'll find it must be re-tarred.
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  690. Justin Ocasio Cortez despises Canadians.
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  691. How much is medical care reduced by the expense of all this?
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  692. Hey, Doctors Without Borders: Breaking news — War affects things other than soldiers. Take your complaints to Hamas for initiating hostilities on a mass scale. Are you trying to tell us that if there were an accidental poisonous gas leak at some nearby facility it would be impossible to evacuate? Stop trying to show off your fine morals and brand of politics and get out!
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  693. To help Ukraine, nit.🇺🇦 Why t.f. is Russia in Ukraine is the question!!
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