Bikers meet dimpled police and squeaky toys

The anticlimax of Rolling Thunder

Ottawa Citizen @OttawaCitizen

'Rolling Thunder' Day 3: Police report hate crime mischief at Capital City Bikers' Church

ottawacitizen.com‘Rolling Thunder’ Day 3: Police investigate hate-motivated graffiti at bikers churchOttawa Police are investigating “hate-motivated mischief” after graffiti was scrawled on a church where a service is being held Sunday morning as part of the “Rolling Thunder” weekend.

“No haven for fascism” graffiti alerted Canada to the fact that Ottawa is home to a bikers’ church, which hosted the inevitable Sunday morning service after a weekend of Rolling Thunder. But this feared Freedom Convoy sequel had counter-protesters armed with squeaky toys, and a meme-worthy cop character nicknamed Officer McDimples.

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Pedal pubs get sober support

Toronto Star @TorontoStar

City councillors steer pedal pubs one step closer to Toronto streets — but no drinks while biking

dlvr.itCity councillors steer pedal pubs one step closer to Toronto streets — but no drinks while bikingThe city’s licensing committee approved the move to allow eight licences, as long as council OKs the move in May.

The vision of a pub-on-wheels service in Toronto was approved by the city licensing committee, which increased the recommended number from two to eight. But that’s with the condition that alcohol isn’t served while 16 seats are biked between taverns. This weekend, a pedal pub accident in Atlanta resulted in a DUI charge for the driver.

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Steven Del Duca’s promise to cut all Ontario transit fares to $1. If elected, Liberals would apply the discount to every line until January 2024, even for a typically more expensive GO train trip. The vow is juxtaposed against Doug Ford’s highway building ambitions, but the premier is the one doing a funding photo-op with Justin Trudeau at Stellantis in Windsor.

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A foreword by Kim Campbell

Enthusiastic reviews already arrived at the Indigo website for What We Lost: Inside the Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity, from the publisher behind books like Patrick Brown’s Takedown. Tawfiq Rangwala is the author with ties to Craig and Marc Kielburger. It received a share of weekend newspaper ink:

National Post @nationalpost

Excerpt: How WE Charity says it became a victim of Trudeau Liberals' errors

nationalpost.comExcerpt: How WE Charity says it became a victim of Trudeau Liberals’ errors’It is mind-boggling to me that in addition to failing to recuse themselves, both Trudeau and Morneau did not ask, did not care, or did not perceive how a…

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Jury selection has started in the Toronto trial of Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard. Sexual assault charges filed in 2018 led to a not guilty plea the next year, followed by pandemic delays. Hedley continued to tour as allegations appeared online, although the band got cancelled by everyone before it stopped.

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Finally, because life’s still like this

“Complicated” was part of the set list for the debut concert tour from Olivia Rodrigo, who was 11 months away from birth when the original was released. Before her own Casino Rama concert, after which Avril Lavigne’s day-old tour got sidelined due to a case of COVID-19, a summit of teen stars past and present took place in Toronto at Massey Hall: