Counterpoint - Monday, July 8th, 2019

Alex is joined by:

Andy Stinton - The Small Business Man

and

Michael Diamond - With Upstream Strategy Group

Topics include:

The anti-abortion film Unplanned has Liberals all hot and bothered calling it a sign of hidden agenda by the Conservatives to back door abortion rights in this country. Theatre owners who are playing the film say they are facing threats, protests and calls to shut it down.

The Justice Department had to clarify a weekend tweet reminding people that they can be charged two hours AFTER driving and arriving at your destination. It caused all sorts of confusion as folks wake up to the reality that this law is so badly written the onus is on YOU to prove you didn’t drink and drive two hours after the fact.

An Ottawa professor finds himself under attack for a weekend tweet that called Conservatives “ the party of the uneducated” It was a “ basket of deplorables” moment. Amir Attaran stated “ Conservatives have a strong lead among those who have not attended college or university while the Liberals have a lead among those with university education.”

Quebec Education Minister Jean-Francois Roberge is under fire after tweeting a picture of himself with Nobel Prize-winning human rights activist Malala Yousafzai. 

Michael De Adder, the cartoonist who claims to have been fired because of his cartoon on Donald Trump? Well, now he’s under fire for a cartoon he did of Lisa MacLeod. 

Quebec, namely Premier Francois LeGault seems to have had a change of mind about supporting the Federal Carbon tax. Quebec will intervene before the Supreme Court of Canada as part of Saskatchewan's appeal against the federal government regarding the constitutional validity of the Canadian carbon tax.

Starbucks is apologizing after an employee reportedly asked six police officers to leave or change their location in one of the company’s shops in a Phoenix suburb because another customer reported feeling unsafe. the officers had just bought their drinks and were standing together before their shift started when a barista made the request for a customer

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