This week Marty, Gavin, Better Andrew, Benny, Tim, and Andrew join the panel. A big part of the news is the alleged cuts to Ontario teachers and education, a wapping 3%. The panel also covers the price of gas in BC, bullets fired at the home of a Toronto City Councillor, federal government hunt for the person that leaked Omar Khadr’s $10.5 million settlement, and the ongoing opioid epidemic.
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CPP176 – Thank you for your donation
This week the panel is graced by Random Dave and his BCL./NEA Christmas Miracle. Ian, Marty, Gavin, and Andrew round the panel out. Trudeau apologizes after telling First Nations mercury poisoning protester, ‘Thank you for your donation’. Women at B.C. Legislature told to cover up. Kenney talk self-defense for Albertans. Adrienne Clarkson seeks to salvage CWHL. The LCBO lost $77M of booze. Brampton council rejects gun buyback plan, while Peel Police arrest a career criminal distributing narcotics, but had 60 illegal guns in his possession. The panel speculates wildly on the pending Alberta election because of listener email.
CPP175 – Amber Alert is my stipper name
This week Andrew is absent and possibly in the hospital. Gavin leads the panel, of Ian, Marty, Sean, Liberal Tim, and Benny. Lots of news to cover this week. The Clerk of the Privy Council “retires” a Liberal MP quits, and the Crime Minister breaks House rules by eating in the chamber. The RCMP are rebuked for posting misleading information about registering guns before C-71 becomes law, and the Ontario Provincial Police reminder citizens how Amber Alerts don’t work. Halifax PD lost a duty pistol. A gun store owner in Cambridge was attacked by a knife wielding suspect who appears to have tried for suicide by cop. Ford government claims increased class sizes will be best for students. Omar Khadar’s sentence ends, the Humboldt crash driver is sentenced. A TTC bus crashes into a home, and a MAGA hat disrupts a vigil in Toronto.
CPP174 – Zero Conversions
This week Ian, Gavin, Tim, and Andrew form the panel. They cover special forces recruiting, that RCMP losing another gun, $11M federal dollars to help Toronto’s guns and Gangs task force, Brad Blair being released from his position with the OPP, and Ontario banning cell phones in classrooms. The lugenpresse is also up to their usual hijinks with vaccine exemptions for students and increased costs for Toronto’s new smaller city council, at least until you read the details of both stories.
CPP172
This week Ian, Gavin, and Andrew are graced by the return of Tim! The panel covers a lot of military spending including buying unflyable German drones and the first batch of Aussie F-18s. In immigration Mississauga is seeking federal compensation for refugees and a high risk Canadian who tried to join ISIS is released on the public. The PM faces his fifth ethics investigation. Finally we hear from our old friend Earl.