Aaaand wealthier people start to get their first inkling that maybe the Ontario PCs’ policies make no damned sense:
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Not only rich folks. I dithered too long about ordering my EV (I was leaning towards the $35K VW eGolf), and lost out on the subsidy. The Tesla 3 starts at about $45K CDN, directly competing with the Chevy Bolt, and in the same price range as any number of gas SUVs.
Preaching to the choir, @gadgetgirl. Dofo is setting this province back at least 20 years, and he’s only getting started.
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As far as I’m concerned, this is the sort of stuff that should have come out a year ago.
I know someone who’s a big Tin Tin fan, and knitted them a Captain Haddock sweater once. He wore it all the time. His friends thought it was awesome.
But I guess Galloway is one of those dudes who just has to make everything about sex.
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So this happened last night, not far from where I live:
Police have released that the suspect shooter was 29 years old and male. Witnesses say he was pale. Young white man doesn’t confirm, but raises the possibility of, another incel attack – or Nazis, or Proud Boys. There was a Proud Boy rally in Ontario over the weekend.
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Toronto police have released the shooter’s name:
How does someone with chronic “psychosis and depression” get a handgun, in Canada?
I hope we find out more, because this is not adding up for me yet.
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Illegally, like just about everyone else. The number of legal handguns is a drop in the bucket.
The required background checks should have prevented this individual from acquiring any firearm.
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Yeah. Guns are like drugs. Almost everyone knows a guy who if pressed could admit he knows a guy who knows a guy.
If you have a drug dealer, you even have a headstart on who to ask.
As long as guns exist, gun control will never be 100% effective. Especially with a country where gun worship is part of (part of) the culture. I will still take our not-100% over zero, however.
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A guy? Hell, I know a whole country. 
Exactly. The standard bullshit argument used against any regulation by those opposed is that it won’t be 100% effective. Australia is a good example of what can be done when a country gets serious about gun regulation.
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Australia does have one advantage, though. They don’t share 8,891 kilometres with firearms obsessed neighbours whose answer to every issue seems to be “moar guns, dagnabbit!”
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[Dan Cathy’s] remarks caused politicians to call for the chain to boycotted, but [food industry expert Robert] Carter suspects the furor will be a “non-issue” for Canadians because he said once issues like these “fall out of the consciousness of consumers, it is business as usual.”
RESIST!
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This will be… interesting. On the one hand, Toronto has embraced chains like McDonald’s and Popeye’s. On the other hand, Arby’s didn’t last long at all. I would rate Chick-Fil-A as closer to Arby’s than Popeye’s.
Uff, and if they maintain their “no opening on Sundays” rule here they may find that a problem.
Let’s hope.
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Krispy Kreme sank without a trace, but apparently they’re making another try. My experience matched the Canadian consensus, that their donuts are painfully sweet. And I’m a guy who will gladly eat a Timmies donut from time to time.
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I spent 20 years in the south and still enjoy the occasional number 1 combo from CFA. But I find the further you go from the south, the less the general public thinks that it’s anything special.
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I just had a Krispy Kreme this morning, from the one lonesome store in Mississauga. It was a gid reminder of what’s icky about them. This one was still warm, which is supposed to be when they’re best.
They are squishy, not cakey.
The oil from them sticks to the roof of my mouth.
Yes, they are over-sugared, and the sugar flakes go all over the place. And what’s left still makes them too sweet.
Tim Horton’s does a lot of terrible things to food, but I still like theirs better.
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Which is why it amazes me that in places with out Krispy Kreme shops, there are Krispy Kreme sold in stores (that came from a “nearby” KK store) They are awful.
I’ve not been to a Timmy’s in decades, but I liked them then (although I’ve heard much has changed in the years)
I’m stuck with Dunkin (not worth it), Grocery Store (hit and miss) and a few Mom and Pop that are generally good, but pricey.
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I don’t know if it’s the nostalgia factor, but no doughnut I’ve eaten as an adult compares to the ones of my childhood. It’s either that or Winchel’s Doughnuts in Southern California were actually the best ones ever.
I’d be glad to try Tim Horton’s, if I’m ever actually near one. I’ve been hearing about them for years, but I’m sadly too far South…I have to admire Canada and Canadians from afar. 
Sigh.
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Was that back in the day when each Timmy’s made donuts in the store? 'cos that marks a watershed between when I’d rather have a Tim Horton’s donut and when I’d rather have a cinnamon bun at Grounds for Coffee. OK, a quarter of a cinnamon bun.
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Just when you were adjusting to the sex ed curriculum crap, and the budget crap, and all the other already-done crap…
What the actual fuck, DoFo.
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That’s an exceedingly expedient way to fix† the council.
†As in “Fix the Race”, Yes.
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“Fix” as in “fix a race”, right? Most of the stuff that’s broken about TO City Council at the moment was broken when Doug’s brother was mayor.
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