13 years later, did Doug ever sue the Globe for slander like he threatened? I don’t think he did.

tl;dr: Old dealers and drug users told the Globe that from high school to age 22, Doug dealt a lot of drugs to other drug dealers. The police in his area said they had no recollection of anything to do with any of the Fords and drugs, including the officer that arrested Randy Ford (Rob and Doug’s other brother) for putting someone in a trunk and kidnapping them to shake the kidnapee’s parents down for drug money. Snippit:

As a dealer, Doug Ford was not highly visible. Another source, “Tom,” who also supplied street-level dealers and has a long criminal record, said his girlfriend at the time would complain, whenever he was arrested, that he needed to be more calculating “like Doug.” […] When asked where Mr. Ford fit in the hierarchy of dealers in their neighbourhood, [another interviewee] replied: “He’d be at the top.”

Literally just mocking democracy at this point.

I found more details about when those resignations happened from a link in OP’s link:

Feb 9 - council approves a zoning change “to allow the AI data centre to proceed to a design stage”

March 16 - another closed meeting, this time something about ethics complaints

March 18 - 4 of the 7 council members resign and they’re all mum about it. Maybe an NDA?

With the four resignations, Sherwood’s council no longer has quorum to conduct any meetings to address regular business. […] In the meantime, per The Municipalities Act, the Minister of Government Relations will appoint “one or more persons to act as members of council” to meet quorum requirements until the fall.

Also Middle of March, the Bell Canada President and Scott Moe came out and said “the data centre would be moving ahead in this spring.”

Now, April 20, another closed-door meeting. “We get so many emails tho.” “Oops, our audio was off until the vote part! Our bad!” “Don’t worry - they did a self-assessment.” It’s so blatant, it’s almost funny.

And when the Freedom City brainiacs suck up the last drop of fresh water during fire season to power a monstrosity nobody wants and only makes more work and less security for people, at least Interim Reeve Ray Orb will have the comfort of knowing it wasn’t wasted on some useless plant or person.

The R.M. arranged a livestream of the meeting but audio was unavailable until just before council voted unanimously

I want to live in a world where people go to jail for doing shit like this.

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Slanted - Shad (English)

If he’s new to anyone scrolling by, I’ve been listening to Shad for over a decade now and my favourite track of his is Fam Jam. Classic Canadiana.

Another nepobaby grifter Ford amplified by the press they’re attacking. jfc how many of them are there?

This is why Anti-SLAPP laws are so important. Alberta doesn’t have them, so Caylan’s whole case gets heard in full before a judge can rule on its merit. Rotten business.

Just a reminder for anyone scrolling by, Caylan also wrote that she was “saddened by the demographic replacement of white peoples in their homelands […] [I]t’s clear that it will not be a peaceful transition.” - press progress 2019

Just for context, the CTV story linked doesn’t mention it, but before Trump’s ragetweet, one of the Morouns met with Lutnick, Trump’s secretary of commerce. For anyone who hasn’t heard of them yet, the Moroun family across the water makes passive income in the billions off the Ambassador (troll) bridge. They even donated 1M to a Trump superPAC less than a month before Trump’s tweet.

The timing of the donation and Trump’s seeming change in position toward the new bridge is “somewhat of an unusual case” in the campaign finance world, according to Devin Judge-Lord, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

“Usually everybody has strong incentives for these kinds of donations to not get attention,” said Judge Lord, adding that a position change “would normally only be taken if they didn’t believe they would generate a lot of news coverage.” CBC, Feb '26

The Morouns spent something like 30M back in 2012 opposing the Gordie Howe - made a fake group called The People Should Decide that created a petition that called for a referendum to amend Michigan’s constitution, just to preserve their monopoly. When that didn’t work in their favour, the next year they started suing:

Ambassador Bridge owner Matty Moroun has named the U.S. departments of State, Transportation, Coast Guard and Homeland Security, as well as the Canadian government, in a lawsuit to stop a new Detroit River bridge.

In the 92-page lawsuit filed in federal court in February,  Moroun claims he has a “perpetual and exclusive franchise right” to operate the Windsor-Detroit crossing without competition from another bridge […]

“I’m not surprised, they have an enormous sense of entitlement.” The bridge company’s claim to exclusive rights to bridge traffic at the Windsor-Detroit crossing is something “nobody takes seriously. They are lashing out in all directions and trying to stop progress,” [Canada’s Consul General Roy Norton] said, “This is what they do.” - Windsor Star, Apr 2013

Truth. Best part of this story is the people who showed up to support Britt. Contrast the pictures: one is of Bubba, the sewage-brain psycho hepped up on hate, grinning about threatening a dying man alone in a hospital because teh gheys, and the other is a wall of no-nonsense good folk who might’ve been helping someone move into their new apartment that day if they weren’t so busy fighting fascism.

One thing the “alt right” did is get so many of us to see the difference between a patriot and a nationalist. They might claim the p-word, but they also claim to be pro-choice when it suits them so their definitions mean dick all. They’re flags-on-clothes “MY country, not yours, right or wrong” nationalists.

From what I’ve seen, a patriot wants to work to fix what’s hurtful in their country and to protect social and legal advancements already accomplished for the common good.

But absolutely, they’ve fouled that word up with how often and loudly they claim it.

The capsule has raised a host of legal and ethical questions in Switzerland. Active euthanasia is illegal in the country, but assisted dying has been allowed for decades as long as the person takes their life with no “external assistance” and those who help the person die do not do so for “any self-serving motive,” according to a government website.

That sounds so frigging complicated. Like, you can have a milky coffee, but you can’t physically combine the milk and coffee.

Good on the folk who risked 5 years in jail to help that 65 y/o bite it.