This week in Canada.

[Kenny Satch]

Interesting.

I've seen it in the wine shops, but haven't tried it...figured it'd smell/taste like 20 years of old sweaty hockey gear from 1999.

Pretty much what I told my wife before she took a sip.

[XXX-er]

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More Wayne Gretsky porn ... literaly

[Mr. Multiglisse]

Tony Baloney is in a bit of hot water. Claims he was tricked into sexting dick pics to a woman who is now blackmailing him. He is my MP too. As Bugs Bunny would say, "what a maroon!"

Here's the link to the NYT story so our American readers will get a little more background.

Canadian version here.

For extra entertainment, scroll through his Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/TonyclementCPC. There seems to be a bit of a "meToo" thing emerging. EDIT: his personal feed shows nothing since Oct 31. Just search for "Tony Clement" in Twitter and scroll though what pops up there.

[reckless toboggan]

*This Week in Canada...

Tony Clement ejaculated from Conservative Caucus.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4639484/t...onal-security/

On Tuesday night, Clement — who is married — issued a statement claiming he was being extorted by someone he had sent “sexually explicit” images and a video of himself to and had believed the communication was consensual.
Global News has learned exclusively that Clement has been told that if he does not pay 50,000 euros, then the material will be released to the public.
...
His ejaculation from caucus marked a reversal from Scheer’s position earlier this morning.

On his way into the Conservative caucus meeting, Scheer said he believed Clement that the incident was a one-off wank.
...
Speaking with reporters on the way into question period on Wednesday, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer announced he had asked Clement to resign from the Conservative caucus amid a sexting scandal that Scheer said “is not an isolated incident”...
...
However, Scheer explained his request for Clement’s resignation from caucus as coming after further allegations related to his behaviour emerged.

Clement’s ejaculation from caucus comes after he resigned his role as Conservative justice critic as well as all his roles on parliamentary committees.

*I stay away from posting political news this thread, as that was not its intended content, and I do not want this thread about quirky Canadian life to devolve into a partisan shit-pile. However, Tony Clement is a moron pervert on the order of Anthony Weiner (maybe it's a first name thing...) and deserves the ridicule.

[XXX-er]

Tony Baloney is in a bit of hot water. Claims he was tricked into sexting dick pics to a woman who is now blackmailing him. He is my MP too. As Bugs Bunny would say, "what a maroon!".

anyone that stupid should not be allowed to hold office

[Mr. Multiglisse]

anyone that stupid should not be allowed to hold office

Or be part of "the special national security committee."

Fun (and non-scandalous) fact about Tony that I'll bet not even that many Canadians know: he is a pretty good rock guitar player and has (maybe had, by now) his own monthly classic rock show called "Tony's Rocking Shindig" on a local radio station. Despite my dislike of him as a person and politician, I frequently listen in, since he plays good music and can wax eloquently on rock music history.

[Mr. Multiglisse]

*This Week in Canada...

Tony Clement ejaculated from Conservative Caucus.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4639484/t...onal-security/



*I stay away from posting political news this thread, as that was not its intended content, and I do not want this thread about quirky Canadian life to devolve into a partisan shit-pile. However, Tony Clement is a moron pervert on the order of Anthony Weiner (maybe it's a first name thing...) and deserves the ridicule.

Fair point about staying away from politics. My intention was not to disturb the shitpile but more to point out that our leaders are not exempt from being moron perverts, no matter what party they work for. And the fact that he is my MP brings it a little closer to home.

[reckless toboggan]

^^^No worries. Not calling you out specifically or anything.

Just generally for this thread: Posts about politician's dick picks are hilarious. Posts about their politics aren't.

I just don't want this funny thread about quirky Canadians to slippery-slope into political trolling, so I figured I'd be explicit about it.

[Mr. Multiglisse]

[reckless toboggan]

This Week in Canada...

Alleged carjacker shoots himself in leg

https://thestarphoenix.com/news/crim...himself-in-leg

In a news release, Warman RCMP said they received a complaint around 4:20 a.m. from a person claiming to have been threatened at gunpoint while at a gas station in Saskatoon.

RCMP said the suspect originally ordered the man to drive him out of Saskatoon while threatening him with a sawed-off shotgun. The suspect later decided he would drive, and while doing so, he dropped the weapon. While he was trying to grab it from the floor of the vehicle, the gun went off, hitting the suspect in the leg.

RCMP said the shot caused “significant injury.”

The suspect then stopped the vehicle and its owner was able to pull him out, regaining control and driving away.
Police said both the victim and the suspect called 911 at the same time.

Paramedics and police arrived at the scene and the suspect was transported to hospital with “serious injuries,” RCMP said.

Marty Chemakese, 31, faces eight firearms-related charges, including kidnapping with a firearm, possession of a firearm contrary to a prohibition order and extortion with a firearm. Pending recovery from his injuries, he is set to appear in Saskatoon provincial court on Tuesday.

[XXX-er]

stayin away from politics ... are fucking kidding me


Hey, I'm not a lumberjack, or a fur trader....
I don't live in an igloo or eat blubber, or own a dogsled....
and I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from Canada,
although I'm certain they're really really nice.

I have a Prime Minister, not a president.
I speak English and French, not American.
And I pronounce it 'about', not 'a boot'.

I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack.
I believe in peace keeping, not policing,
diversity, not assimilation,
and that the beaver is a truly proud and noble animal.
A toque is a hat, a chesterfield is a couch,
and it is pronounced 'zed' not 'zee', 'zed' !!!!

Canada is the second largest landmass!
The first nation of hockey!
and the best part of North America

My name is Joe!!
And I am Canadian!!!



and so don't take yerself so seriously eh, we say silly shit and don't care what it really means cuz its the difference between us and those desperate gun people down south



actualy toques give me hathead, I been pretending to be a lumber jack this fall and I think the beaver is just a rodent with a good publicist

[BCMtnHound]

And counterpoint!

I'm not unemployed or smuggling cigarettes across the border
I don't eat Pepsi and May West for breakfast (*)
I don't watch da hockey game doing it doggie-style
And no, I don't know Claude, Manon, or François in Abitibi-Témiscamingue
But I'm sure they all have nice teeth

I smoke in church
I speak Québecois in joual, not French or English
I pronounce it "tird", not third
And eating French fries with cheese makes sense, mon ostie,
I believe in a distinct society, as long as someone else pays for it
I believe in language-police, not equal rights
And, calisse, I believe that Club Super-Sex is an appropriate place
for my wife and me to celebrate our anniversaire
What the hell, she goes on at ten anyway

In Québec, the Stanley Cup actually comes around more often than
Halley's comet
I can get beer at the dépanneur, not the convenience store
And maybe I can't turn right on a red light
But tabarnak, I can go right through it
Because Québec is the world's largest producer of maple syrup
The home of Céline Dion and Roch Voisine
The land where everybody is shacking up and the legal drinking age is
just a suggestion

Je m'appelle Guy, and I am not Canadian

Mot, t'a dit, tabarnak, ostie.
Merci, salut la vedette

[Kenny Satch]

^^you forgot #pastgate
#Buonanotte

[Kenny Satch]

Also "other" is always pronounced "utter"

[reckless toboggan]

This Week in Canada...

Judge calls Toronto cop who ate cannabis chocolate on duty a 'complete idiot'

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...rges-1.4899645

A Toronto police officer who ate a marijuana-laced chocolate bar seized in a pot shop raid has pleaded guilty to attempting to obstruct justice.
Const. Vittorio Dominelli says he is remorseful and ashamed of his actions on the evening of Jan. 27.

Justice Mary Misener says Dominelli is a "complete idiot" for tampering with evidence.
Crown attorney Philip Perlmutter, who read out an agreed statement of facts in court, says Dominelli took three hazelnut chocolate bars infused with cannabis oil from the raid.
Perlmutter says Dominelli and another officer later ate one chocolate bar and became intoxicated in about 20 minutes, and eventually radioed for help.

...it's like a fucking Coen Brothers film up here...

Const. Jamie Young and Dominelli allegedly assisted in the execution of a search warrant at Community Cannabis Clinic, a marijuana dispensary in the city's west end, in the early evening of Jan. 27.
The charges alleged that Young later "failed to account" for a chocolate hazelnut bar infused with cannabis oil seized during the search.
At around 11 p.m. on the night of the raid, both Young and Dominelli were assigned to surveillance duty near Eglinton Avenue West and Allen Road, where they allegedly ate the chocolate.

Appeared 'in distress'

About two hours later, Dominelli made a call for assistance over police radio, claiming that he felt he was going to pass out after running on Oakwood Avenue.
Dominelli used the 10-33 police code, normally reserved to indicate an officer is in serious trouble.
Responding officers said Young and Dominelli "appeared to be in distress" when they were found. They were both taken to hospital.
One of the responding officers slipped on ice during the call for help and also had to be transported to hospital.
...
Court heard Dominelli resigned from the force this week.

[Kenny Satch]

This Week in Canada...

Judge calls Toronto cop who ate cannabis chocolate on duty a 'complete idiot'





...it's like a fucking Cohen Brothers film up here...

Const. Vittorio Dominelli
Holy shit I believe I know his dad.
I need to find out.

[XXX-er]

" No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough."
HST

Just ride it out and never say anything about the bats ... fucking amateurs eh ?

[riser4]

" No point mentioning those bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough."
HST

Just ride it out and never say anything about the bats ... fucking amateurs eh ?

This. Or at least that's what a friend said.

[reckless toboggan]

PSA -- Gear worth thousands stolen from Merritt, B.C., search and rescue team

https://www.timescolonist.com/gear-w...eam-1.23497388

MERRITT, B.C. — Gear worth thousands of dollars has been stolen from a search and rescue team in British Columbia's southern Interior after thieves broke into a storage facility twice in two days.
Nicola Valley Search and Rescue president Saxon Peters says the break-ins occurred Friday and Saturday at a compound near the Merritt airport.
A post on the team's Facebook page says personal flotation devices, search and rescue jackets, a computer and television were among the items taken, and most were found Sunday in a nearby ditch.
But Peters says other equipment worth more than $8,000 is still missing.
The break-ins also knocked the group's command vehicle out of commission while the RCMP investigation was underway and missing items from the truck were replaced.
Peters says he can't understand why anyone would target a search and rescue organization.
"We rely on this equipment to help other people and why someone would steal from us is beyond me," he says.
The search group says the thieves appear to have been sorting through rescue gear and packing up selected items when they were scared off Friday night, but returned late Saturday to finish the job.
Investigators want to speak to anyone who may have seen suspicious people or vehicles around the Merritt airport last weekend. (CHNL, The Canadian Press)

[Gcooker]

PSA -- Gear worth thousands stolen from Merritt, B.C., search and rescue team

https://www.timescolonist.com/gear-w...eam-1.23497388

In Merritt? Cause Meth.

[Thaleia]

This Week in Canada...

Judge calls Toronto cop who ate cannabis chocolate on duty a 'complete idiot'

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...rges-1.4899645



...it's like a fucking Cohen Brothers film up here...

But wait there's more - dumbass ate a portion, got impatient, so of course, ate more. They shared a chocolate meant for eight doses. And panickbro had to be rescued from a tree.

[XXX-er]

I have a buddy who ate/smoked too much and he was an anesthetist.

[BCMtnHound]

In Merritt? Cause Meth.

There has been organized thieves working the highway 5 corridor for a few years. I know offices that have been broken into 4 times in a single year, mostly during long weekend holidays when employees are not around. Govt, Kinder Morgan, and various small businesses have all been targeted. This could be the same group. And they are brazen.

[reckless toboggan]

This Week in Canada...

'Extremely drunk' Canadian curling team gets banned from tour event

https://winnipegsun.com/curling/extr...rom-tour-event

Back in 2015, four-time world champion curler Randy Ferbey bemoaned the sober-minded ways of the sport’s modern era. In his day, he told the Ottawa Sun, you would “go curl your game then go sit and visit with people and have a bunch of beers and stay up till midnight.

“Teams don’t do that no more,” Ferbey said.
But Ferbey jumped the gun a bit, because there’s one team that has taken Ferbey’s wistful recollection to heart in perhaps an overenthusiastic manner. On Sunday afternoon, the curling foursome of Jamie Koe, Ryan Fry, Chris Schille, and DJ Kidby got kicked out of the Red Deer Curling Classic in Alberta, in part because they were “extremely drunk.”
“They went out to curl and they were extremely drunk and breaking brooms and swearing and just unacceptable behavior that nobody wants to watch or hear or listen to and it was just ‘enough was enough,’ ” facility manager Wade Thurber told CBC Sports.

“There was some damage in the locker room and other teams complaining about their stuff being kicked around in the locker room. So at the end of the day, it was like ‘OK, that’s enough of this gong show.’ The committee for the bonspiel collectively decided that we needed to remove them from the spiel for this year and what happens down the road, I’m not sure yet.”

According to a sign posted at the arena, Koe’s squad was disqualified – it had to forfeit its final match after just one end – and might not be allowed back. The team won its first match of the tournament on Friday before losing twice on Saturday, the Red Deer Advocate reported.

Fry, a gold medalist for Team Canada at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, was full of remorse in a statement to CBC Sports.
“I would like to sincerely apologize to the fans, participants and organizers of the Red Deer Curling Classic,” he said. “I came to the event to play and enjoy the sport. My actions were truly disrespectful and embarrassing – the committee was right to disqualify us from play.”
The incident was discussed a this World Curling Tour live stream of the event: “Yesterday, they got here about 11 o’clock,” the commentator said. “They were sitting over there drinking, about 30, 40 empty bottles of beer and they were doing shots. They went out there completely drunk and played, kicking rocks, throwing brooms, they got disqualified. Other teams were saying, ‘We do not want to even play here anymore if they’re allowed, so they said, ‘Team Koe, disqualified,’ and they’re never allowed to play here again.”
Said Fry, in his statement: “I allowed myself to lose control and I offended people with my actions. I wish nothing more than to apologize to everyone individually.”

[garyfromterrace]

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Oh Canada