Counterpoint - Friday, July 19th, 2019

On this edition of Counterpoint, Alex is joined by:

BOB RICHARDSON - Senior Counsel at National Public Relations

and

ANTHONY FUREY - Sun/Postmedia Columnist and National Comment Editor

Topics include:

LCBO? More like LCB-NO!

There is a human rights tribunal under way in BC. involving a transgender complainant who is well known for her activism. This is her 12th complaint against a woman's salon, this one is against a home-based salon she accuses of discriminating against her by denying her a Brazilian wax. 

The day before he resigned as Premier Doug Ford’s chief of staff amid a cronyism scandal, Dean French orchestrated the dismissal of the chair of a $60-billion public pension's board and appointed three new members. 

Justin Trudeau has sharpened his criticism of Donald Trump. Over those “send her back” chants at a rally. And yet, he hasn’t said a peep about a Quebec upper court upholding the Religious symbol ban.

Toronto cops have moved in to shut down some of the bigger and more established illegal pot shop. They are using a new technique which us putting huge cinder blocks to block the front. A heavy handed and expensive process. And the pot shop simply got its own fork lift and moved them.

In a blunder which undermined the seriousness of their announcement, the RCMP accidentally had the cat ears filter on for their live-stream of a press conference on the double homicide of a couple in northern British Columbia. 

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