Oh Ontario…
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They’ve got to be careful or they’ll make him into a folks-hero.
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They got him.
He was the guy on the cctv.
In case you’re not from Tdot, they cops didn’t even look for Tess. Her mother took the bus to Toronto from Thunder Bay the next day, and her mother found her body. She’d been missing for four days. And her body was in an alley the entire time. I hope her mother sues the TPS for all their worth.
This took place in the gay village, the very same gay village that had an active serial killer for over a decade.
Kind of a pattern of the cops not caring about events in the gay village eh?
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A friend of mine kept harping on about how Tess Richey was a sex worker. It was kind of a boring conversation, because I kept saying “so the hell what?”
I totally agree that if a mum straight off the bus from North Bay does a better job than the cops, the cops have some 'splaining to do
Also, for all the talk about how this is a “gay village” thing… the gay village in TO is one street over from a metric shit tonne of office towers. I used to work in one; the gaybourhood was where all our regular lunch places were, and where we went out after work to commiserate with laid-off colleagues (it was a dot-com; there were a lot of layoffs).
So if you want to be a fucking elitist about it, the cops didn’t just abandon the gays, but all the straight (and gay) office people who work, eat, shop, and hang out in the neighbourhood every freaking day.
The cops have to learn. There is no us and them. And handing out police service that way just makes them look bad.
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Because sex workers have it coming right?
Burn it all down.
Also, I’m a little freaked out by this and want to know what happened in August!
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oooooooh shiiiiiit Alloura Wells was found in August…
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So possibly another serial murderer (I think they need three to meet the category?).
This is bad.
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I always feel so bad for the families, not just of the victims, but like this guys Mom…
Like how do you reconcile this… and to have 100s of strangers swarm your FB like that. Ugh, its so horrible all around.
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Ok, some non-terrifying and non-Ontario news for once!
Albertas’ gone full petty!! LOL
@tinoesroho - stock up!
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And the funny thing is that these are the only two NDP premiers, facing off against each other.
You’d think that an NDP premier would be anti-pipeline, but apparently, not an Alberta NDP premier.
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Might be a tactical error on her part. 1) The areas punished most by this are more Liberal/Pipeline-friendly strongholds, 2) we’re used to paying the highest prices in the country for gas… we’ll get over it, but Albertans might not like the cut in booze supply and 3) I don’t think Alberta is a massive VQA market, in comparison to what they’re losing on the pipeline.
I think BC will survive this blow.
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Oh, and apparently she’s about 3 months late on this, as all the stores and restaurants stopped serving it ages ago.
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Its just so hilariously petty!
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I have rabid NDP supporters in my family. As in, they get highly upset if you give even the faintest praise to another party leader, something like, “Hey, Trudeau did okay on that speech he gave yesterday”. That’s enough to get you a minimum hour-long diatribe on how awful the other parties are.
(Note: most of the rest of the family are also NDP supporters. Just we prefer to be quieter and more rational about it.)
Anyways, what I have learned from the rabid NDPers in the family is that if it comes down to jobs or the environment, the NDP will tend to pick jobs, because no matter what’s happened in their history, they see themselves as the voice of ordinary working folks.
If you are preparing to remind me that environmentally responsible behaviour – like, say, installing a solar farm instead of another fucking pipeline – also creates jobs, don’t worry. I’m already there.
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The booze is piped in? I’ve got to speed up my plans to move to Canada…
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Well, not booze as such, but the beer. None of those pipelines are allowed to cross provincial boundaries, though 
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Then again, if we’re comparing it to US love-in-a-canoe beer…
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I’m not comfortable with the censorship assertion. The Walrus is a magazine, and like any other magazine they can kill an article for any reason they want. The author can still publish her article elsewhere, if she can find someone to buy it.
Having said that, I totally agree that what’s going on here is that the magazine is scared of the wrath of Atwood and any other establishment writers who might disagree with the article. This is all about the cultural oligarchy of writers who declared themselves canonical in the 1960s and have been trying to call the shots on who gets to be in the in-crowd ever since.
Twenty years ago any author even writing such an article and having a chance of getting it published mainstream would have been nearly unthinkable. It’s really not that surprising that it got as far as being written, but not published.
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Sorry, but we don’t export the real beer. 
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Gotta have it to be able to export it. 
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