You Won’t Even Notice

Peter Menzies- “The soft, silent takeover of the nation’s press” rolls on relentlessly

It will be a process – a series of nips and tucks to legislation and fund regulations that will continually tighten the bureaucratic grip on the throats of the nation’s once free press. Unless you follow the Canada Gazette or subscribe to The Rewrite, you’ll probably never hear about it. But trust that what Rudyard Griffiths, publisher of The Hub, calls “the soft, silent takeover of the nation’s press” is underway.

Shooting Your Own Foot

In response to the decision to close an Ontario liquor bottling plant, Ontario consumers may soon be unable to buy liquor made in Gimli, Manitoba. So much for inter-provincial free trade.

“A message to all the bigwigs at Diageo: I swear to God, those bottles of Crown Royal are coming off the LCBO shelves. When the last person walks out through that door, we’re going to make sure LCBO takes off their brands because we need to stick together,” Ford said during a union rally in Brampton on Saturday.

Diageo also noted that the company will continue to have a presence in Canada, including their Canadian headquarters and warehouse operations in the Greater Toronto Area.

Woke White Woman FAFO

For many years, woke folks felt entitled to harass and even attack anyone who disagreed with them. There were countless examples of severe repercussions for anyone who stood up against them. But the culture has clearly turned and is heading back to some semblance of normality.

This is an interesting video from Washington state, where a Woke White Woman attacked a Black woman and fully thought she was entitled to do so. She found out the hard way that her perceived entitlements have evaporated.

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