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Cake day: October 18th, 2024

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  • I really like our PM and he brought Canada a lot of respect yesterday in his speech in Davos.

    But it’s shit like this (and Bill C-2) that piss me off to no end. There is no reason for corps to legally be able to avoid laws that everyone else in Canada has to obey, same as there’s zero reason to give CBSA any more power than they already have. I mean they don’t even have to report how many people they have in custody or how many have died in custody.

    It’s crap like this that doesn’t mesh with his talk of honesty and truth, and the scent of hypocrisy is starting to get strong.





  • But on Nov. 7, just two weeks before the site’s provincial funding was to run out, Health Canada said it would require the centre to meet two new conditions.

    The first was that the site secure its own funding, which Robertson says was possible to do for one year.

    Health Canada’s second condition was that the site create a “community safety plan” that was approved by local police. The site had only eight days to comply, according to Robertson.

    Robertson says that the government’s language indicated the site was expected to take responsibility for vandalism, theft and disorder — not just on its property but across the entire neighbourhood.

    “That one was a threshold we couldn’t meet,” Robertson tells The Grind. “We felt that was a significant tall order to ask a [consumption and treatment service] to be responsible for public safety in Parkdale.”