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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, that is unless you dare cross a cyclist Jan 03, 2018

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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, that is unless you dare cross a cyclist. Then you can expect more than fury—outright rabid frothing at the mouth.
It all started during a snow storm right before x-mas when I was on the roads and noticed a cyclist slipping and sliding over a slushy street. It was an accident waiting to happen. I took a photo and tweeted it out saying “you have to be a real knob to be out in weather like this”. My mistake was calling the guy a knob. THAT was wrong- But the post had nothing to do with cycling rights. It was simply an observation that it wasn’t a safe day to be riding a bike on Toronto’s slushy streets with no bike lane
Que the outrage from the perpetually outraged!
First to chime in, the Ottawa police as their social media team nosed into a jurisdiction that’s none of their business. That they know nothing about and certainly wouldn’t understand riding conditions that day. They stated cyclists have every right to be on the roads, and gave me instructions on how I should go around a cyclist.
News flash- my tweet and comment was never about cycling rights. Not one word of it suggested that. Nor did I need a lesson on how to go around. I wasn’t trying to go around. The guy wasn’t in my way. Or slowing me down. He WAS struggling to stay upright. And I thought it was foolish to risk that. Your tweet suggested I’m anti cyclist. Which couldn’t be furthest from the truth. And I am on record with that. I have zero issues with cycling. I have no issues with bike lanes. No issue with giving them a wide berth. My only issues with cyclists is that they need to obey signs and rules so no one gets hurt. While you may not like the opinion—the fact is cyclists get hurt when they fall. And in a City like Toronto full of congestion and lousy cycling infrastructure- going out in a snow storm is not worth the risk. But how could Ottawa police know that? It’s not their jurisdiction.
The Ottawa police, so concerned about cycling rights in a totally different city, unleashed a frenzy of hate filled rhetoric suggesting I be fired, arrested, have my child taken away. On and on the hysteria went. All because I called a miscellaneous person a knob?
And what’s your excuse Huffington post? I see you filed a story on how the Ottawa police “shut down” a Toronto reporter. Oddly, my phone nor any email ever came offering me an opportunity for me to have a say? Your glee in having me checked by Ottawa cops-didn’t need to be marred by any inconvenient truth? There is a very simple rule in journalism, Always get the other side of the story? And if you can’t— try like hell. Otherwise it’s click bait—or fake news.
This isn’t me having a pity party. I’m a big girl. I can take my lumps. When deserved. But IF you are going to attack me, libel me, convict me, use my 4 yr olds picture to fight your cause, you should know the facts. You don’t. You weren’t there. You have no idea If I was with someone. Where I was going. What I may have been doing. Sherlock Holmes you are not. But hey, in the days of social media mobbing apparently we no longer need courts. We have you the social justice warriors to play judge and jury.
For whatever role I played- I happily accept responsibility and I say this--
To the unknown man, slipping and sliding on his bike back during a snow storm- I do apologize for calling you a knob. I don’t know you. I don’t know your situation. Or where you were going. But knob was the wrong word. I should have said – Fool. Silly. Reckless. Because it was reckless to be out that day. Even for the most experienced cyclist. Bottom line--- while cyclists have a right to be on the roads all year long—it doesn’t mean you should. Or that it’s safe. Or that everyone rides at the same level.
I may have been a jerk for calling someone a silly name, but the vicious rabid reaction from those looking down from their moral high horse -- you have revealed you are no better than those you attack.

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Oren Amitay: Managing expectations for holidays Dec 23, 2017

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Registered Psychologist Doctor Oren Amitay joins ON Point and talks about depression during the holidays, addictions and setting realistic resolutions.

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How to not break the wallet during the busy Christmas shopping season Dec 23, 2017

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Rubina Ahmed-Haq joins ON Point and discusses how easy it is to over spend for the holidays, and provides some tips on how to be disciplined.

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Some etiquette tips for the holiday gatherings Dec 23, 2017

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"The Etiquette Guy" Jay Remer gives us some tips on etiquette when it comes to holiday dinners, and gift giving/receiving.

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James DiFiore: A day in the life of a mall Santa Dec 23, 2017

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James DiFiore went undercover as a mall Santa. He describes the experience with Alex Pierson

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Remember to create some Christmas magic this season Dec 23, 2017

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While Christmas is festive for many, it may be a sad or lonely time for others. Create magic for those around you if you can!

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Canada abstaining from UN vote condemning American embassy move to Jerusalem Dec 22, 2017

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Steve McDonald Deputy Director, Communications and Public Affairs at The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA). He tells Alex that this resolution (which includes Yemen) is part of the campaign of ganging up against Israel

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You have to believe in Santa—the government says so!!! Dec 22, 2017

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The Hamilton C-A-S has decided it knows best removing 2 little girls from the care of two loving gaurdians who provided a safe and happy home. The problem? These caregivers are devout Christian’s, and these days, targeting that faith is just fine. So what have these parents done that is so awful? Well, according to the C-A-S lawyers-- these parents won’t lie to the girls and tell them Santa or the Easter bunny are real. The girls, according the government agency, are in “imminent danger” that the magic of the holiday-- might be destroyed.
Yes. You heard that right. Imminent danger if they don’t believe in a floppy eared chocolate carrying fantasy or a fat guy in a red suit who flies around the world in a sleigh led by flying reindeer.
According to the lawyers now arguing the case in a Hamilton court room the children are “entitled” to believe that while they sleep “Santa clause comes down the chimney and puts gifts under the tree.”
This would be laughable if it weren’t for the fact that the C-A-S has a very real and lengthy record of failing vulnerable children by putting them in actual dangerous situations that have either killed or destroyed them.
Need proof?
I covered a Peel CAS case involving two boys yanked from their home during an acrimonious divorce and placed into the care of a foster family that allowed serial killer Douglas Moore to babysit. Uncle Dougy- as the kids called him, sodomized the boys regularly and then killed 3 men.
There was 7 yr old Randal Dooley whose parents used him as a whipping boy. His tiny body bludgeoned black and blue, covered in soars and broken bones. After a year of abuse his body gave up and he died brother’s arms.
Jeffery Baldwin, whose grandparents beat and starved him for years until his emaciated body gave up.
7 yr old Katelelyn Samsson who was tortured and killed by her care givers.
Where were the C-A-S in all of those cases? In a court arguing that children were in imminent danger if they don’t believe Halloween witches really fly??
These are just a few of the kids in government care that were destroyed by a system rife with head shaking failures. And yet here they are wasting precious resources arguing about the need for children to believe in pipe dreams?
This Hamilton family was upfront with the CAS about their beliefs, that they DO NOT endorse Santa and the Easter bunny. And that they won’t lie to the kids. Isn’t it better not to lie to a child than to perpetuate a myth they will figure out in time? They did buy gifts and celebrate each occasion. And it was good enough for the birth mom who thanked them for giving them what she couldn’t. And yet the parents have been fired, the kids yanked out of a stable home by an agency that clearly has an ideology it feels it has the right to indoctrinate
Would they dare do this to a Jewish or dare I say Muslim caregiver? Not.A.Chance.
Who the hell is the government to tell anyone what they should believe? Last I check Canada is a country where freedom of religious belief still exists. No?
In 2015- the Auditor general revealed 47 of the provinces Children aids society are chronically failing society’s most vulnerable children. Bonnie lysik called the system “profoundly dysfunctional” recommending a thorough house cleaning top to bottom. Yes- most of those who had a hand in these tragedies have kept their jobs. Worse? The Liberal government, has done literally nothing to fix it.
At a time when there is a care giver shortage in Ontario, it is clear that those in the business of government care for the most vulnerable in society truly live in a fantasy world.
No wonder they believe in the Easter bunny. After all it’s part of the same government that believes money grows on tree’s.

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Beloved Burlington Christmas display house founder dies Dec 21, 2017

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Scott Musson talks to Alex Pierson after his father died tragically falling off a ladder. Doug Musson established the colourful holiday display outside his family's Spruce Avenue home more than 30 years ago. You can help the family in their time of need Musson Family Lights Fund

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Alex Pierson: The “power brokers bud club” Dec 21, 2017

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Alex talks about the prince and princess of pot having been found guilty.
Yes, they broke current laws. Yes, they are paying a very steep price-- I don’t take issue with that- albeit it’s a hell of a fine at 195,000 each.
The issue for me isn’t that they were punished for breaking current laws—I just find the hypocrisy mind blowing, and not in a good way, that those who have spent their lives waging a war against weed are cashing in- BIG TIME. While others are punished.
I have no doubt the Emery’s in your face activism fed into this latest chapter of trouble. After all-- poke this care bear government we have and you will be put into your place- which in the world of pot is right at the bottom.
The Emery’s argue that their years of activism in legalizing pot should earn them the right to be part of the multi-billion dollar market that is about to spark up.
Yes- and no.
Just because one fights for a cause doesn’t mean they should automatically go to the front of the line- but they are right when they say they, like anyone else in the private sector, they should have the opportunity to get in on a lucrative market that is not just being controlled by our lawmakers—but cornered by them.
Justin Trudeau says legalizing pot isn’t about making people happy it’s to protect the children.
BS.
This has nothing to do with protecting our kids. It was never was. It was initially done for a vote grab with millenial’s. But the haze is clearing to expose it’s about the green behind the green.
Legal pot will net government coffers up to 5 billion dollars in tax revenue. BUT—it’s also a win fall for a very small and very connected group of people. The upper echelons who make the laws- -and now clearly have those laws working for them.
At both the Federal and provincial levels across this country a chosen few with very deep connections to law makers now, not only control weed licences, they are going to make a killing with them. Sitting Senators, Police Chiefs, Commissioner’s , civil servants and politicians, the very folks who told us weed was a gateway to hell are now the major shareholders who will control and profit from legalization.
Ontario has the highest # of licenced producers holding 24 of the 42 coveted growers-licences. A former health minister, Sr. advisor to the finance minister and a financial officer for the Liberal party to name a few. But this isn’t partisan. The “power brokers bud club” stretches across party lines.
Conflict of interest? It sure looks that way--- but you can bet these folks know how to get around the rules without breaking them. Another perk of being on the inside.
So therein lies the problem. You are not an insider. I am not an insider. And the Emery’s are not insiders. We little people, the middle class, are all just on the outside looking in. And from what I can say see—this pot- oligopoly stinks.
Governing is supposed to be about doing what is best for the greater good-- not for the good of a small group of chosen one’s.
When it comes to Pot in Canada—it literally pays to have friends in high places.

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