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Nanaimo, B.C.’s downtown drug experiment has failed to stabilize its overdose rate. It has managed, however, to line the city’s oldest streets with feces, garbage, hit-and-runs, doorway fires and damaged property — a situation so bad that city council, just last week, considered fortifying its...

Donald Trump’s tariff ultimatums move around a lot, earning him the hated nickname TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out). His latest deadline is to reach trade "deals" (actually, non-binding memoranda, not conventional treaties) with more than 100 countries, including Canada, by Aug. 1...

Regularly blocking intersections and causing distress to citizens in downtown Toronto for 21 months doesn’t appear to be a crime. And yet honking horns and, yes, causing annoyance to the citizens of Ottawa for three weeks, is deemed worthy by the Crown of sending people to jail for seven and...

It’s like an episode of Trailer Park Boys.

Isn’t that dependent upon who you talk to? Especially in this situation and specific goat rodeo. Could you clarify?

Which side are you talking about in this case?

Yeah, one side is innocent and the other side is…not innocent.

There’s Uhm…at least two sides in this conflict. There’s also the….other side.

Several Conservative MPs are criticizing the Crown's approach to prosecuting two key organizers of the "Freedom Convoy" protests, with the party's deputy leader calling it an act of "political vengeance." Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were convicted of Mischief in April for their roles in...

After more than 21 months of fighting that have triggered catastrophic humanitarian conditions for Gaza's more than two million people, Israeli allies Britain, France, Australia, Canada and 21 other countries, plus the EU, said in a joint statement that the war "must end now". "The suffering of...

I don’t think the Loblaw’s situation wasn’t an either/or but both.

Which side? Or both? Keeps that protest in the news, & hopefully dissuades others from doing the same stupid shit at protests, so both sides of this?

Wow, totally better story than mine!

They say some demonstrators “repeatedly” ignored police directions, refused to clear intersections and allegedly assaulted officers. One officer sustained minor injuries, and the windshield of a police vehicle was cracked after it was struck by an object. The Toronto chapter of the Palestinian...

A growing number of European Union member states, including Germany, are considering using wide-ranging "anti-coercion" measures targeting U.S. services if the EU cannot reach a trade deal with U.S. President Donald Trump, EU diplomats say. http://apple.news/Al_lv5XzkS3WCX8KQnDx1EA The ACI...