Marcy Kain

Personal Injury litigator. I love all things outside, food, sarcasm, and a good laugh. Life is short - live wide, love big.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

You know how cherries can sometimes drop to $1.99/lb during the summer? Now imagine that Ottawa used your tax dollars to buy up those otherwise cheap cherries at $4.99/lb, and claimed they were doing it in the service of "affordability." That's what Carney just did with Vancouver condos.

[Harman Bhangu @HarmanBhanguBC]

For years we were told housing was expensive because there wasn’t enough supply.

Now thousands of condos are sitting unsold.

The market is finally signalling that prices need to come down, and government’s response is to buy the inventory with taxpayer money.

British Columbians were promised affordable housing.

Instead, taxpayers may be asked to prop up condo prices by having government purchase units that developers can’t sell. Rather than allowing prices to adjust to a level families and young people can afford, government appears ready to step in and create a floor under the market.

If these condos aren’t selling, why should taxpayers be used to keep prices from coming down?

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Tell me: where are the headlines?

The ink on the deal wasn’t even dry before the Islamic Republic showed its true face. Its first move? Sentencing singer Parastoo Ahmadi to 74 lashes for singing without hijab.
Yes, In 21st-century singing is forbidden for women in Iran.

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

Gaslighting in the extreme: the government is literally cutting off debate on amendments to actually change in the bill, yet “a spokesperson for Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, said the bill has undergone changes to address concerns.”
https://t.co/aPFJZE4njv

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

So if I understand this, Carney and Michael Ma answers on whether they can point to China’s use of Xinjiang slave labour (they cannot) are consistent with this ‘law’ that will supposedly target forced labour imports with a carve out for the world’s greatest source. Blatant.

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

The government is tabling privacy reform today. That’s overdue, but its privacy track record is terrible: mandated age verification for millions, mandatory metadata retention, weaker privacy rules for political parties, and sidelining the Privacy Commish.
https://t.co/7L3XY32wBy

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

"Constable Pinizzotto went through a door in a building where an eight-year-old boy was killed in his bed ten months earlier, in a city where a jail official survived a hit allegedly arranged with help from inside his own justice system, in a country where a Hells Angel took a contract from Tehran and a former provincial politician learned from an American court filing — not a Canadian one — that a cartel had her home address and a price on her head. The marketplace that connects those facts is open for business, and its clients — cartel and state alike — have learned that in Canada, the price of violence is low and the prosecution of enterprises is rare. Until Parliament changes that calculation, Canada remains, as The Bureau has reported citing former U.S. State Department and U.S. intelligence official David Luna, a “safe zone” for the worst threat networks in the world."

[Michelle Rempel Garner @MichelleRempel]

Federal immigration officials just said the Liberals are planning a new taxpayer funded international advertising campaign to bring more foreign nationals to Canada to work.

They're doing this the middle of a youth jobs crisis and a recession.

[Marcy Kain @marcykain]

@Albertaardvark Yes! They did this to me too for easily a decade.
$1.27 credit on an old card.
In the first few months I called to tell them to just keep the $ or send it to me - this was impossible apparently, so they spent $100s on postage over the years instead. Lol

[Ben Woodfinden @BenWoodfinden]

Wagner holds press conferences like this one every year to lecture Canadians that criticizing court decisions amounts to portraying judges “as partisan actors, or described as obstacles to the will of the people.”

But if the judiciary wants to be “sheltered from all politicization,” maybe the Chief Justice shouldn’t be holding press conferences wading into political debates.

You can’t appoint yourself a public commentator and then claim immunity from public criticism. Canadians have every right to object when courts invent rights found nowhere in the constitutional text or effectively legislate from the bench.

[Marcy Kain @marcykain]

@JimN13 From entering canada with fake names, working illegally in a sketchy paving scheme, trying to steal from a small business, then the tragedy that followed…I agree it is nonsensical the Crown has recommended such a light sentence.

[Catriona Stewart @CatrionaStewart]

Lots of coverage of the Sharif Rahman killing as Robert Evans Jr, 25, admitted manslaughter in Canada.
I covered the case extensively last summer at Edinburgh Sherrif Court for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Unmasking the Owen Sound suspects: https://t.co/qjseIbms9M

[Catriona Stewart @CatrionaStewart]

Lots of coverage of the Sharif Rahman killing as Robert Evans Jr, 25, admitted manslaughter in Canada.
I covered the case extensively last summer at Edinburgh Sherrif Court for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Unmasking the Owen Sound suspects: https://t.co/qjseIbms9M

[Lorrie Goldstein @sunlorrie]

COLUMN: PM Mark Carney can spin his annual federal deficits any way he likes, but a report by the Parliamentary Budget Officer says they're going to be billions of dollars higher for the next 5 years than he predicted in his spring mini-budget 37 days ago.
https://t.co/mlNJfwsNao

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

What the trolls ruining social media actually look like.

[📹 BestMoon_boxphonefarm]

[Marcy Kain @marcykain]

https://t.co/zgwSZU55gj

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Victimhood has become a moral currency.

We’ve built a culture that ranks people by oppression, then mistakes that ranking for understanding. But people aren’t categories. They’re individuals.

And once you lose that, you stop seeing what actually drives success and better outcomes in the real world and instead promote mediocrity and grievance-mongering.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Outrageous.

Worth noting that their claims have been rejected by a system that has *doubled* the asylum acceptance rate to over 80%, the highest level of any peer country on Earth.

So we’re talking about manifestly fake claims.

If you’ve abused Canada’s generosity, you should leave or be removed, not rewarded with free health benefits, hotels, welfare, etc.

This is making a mockery of Canada’s immigration system, and is an insult to law abiding Canadians, including legal immigrants, who play by the rules.

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Ontario doctor cautioned over MAID complaints can continue practice under supervision, regulator rules https://t.co/PRmjsZZ79u

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Canada's experiences with Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) were frequently cited as a cautionary example during UK debates on assisted dying legislation and they ultimately rejected it!

"Dr. MacLean administered the lethal medications in a room at a holding facility in an industrial unit where cadavers are prepared for transport to funeral homes."

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

A 17 yr old girl was sexually assaulted in Vancouver.

He smeared feces into her face & mouth

He’s a schizophrenic, nine years of meth addiction, prior sexual assault convictions, and a history of breaching court orders.

He was out on bail when he did it

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