The sort of September we may not remember

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CP24 @CP24

Two people arrested at an anti-vaccination protest at the Eaton Centre on Saturday have been charged with assault, Toronto police say. cp24.com/news/man-woman…

Ontario started easing capacity limits in settings that require proof of vaccination, but it was a mask-defying crowd trying to enter the Toronto Eaton Centre that supplied the footage for these times. Another scene played out at a restaurant in London, but it’s entirely possible that certain protesters are more vaccinated than they claim to be.

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Representation by notes application

Kevin Vuong 😷🇨🇦⚓ @KevinVuongTO

My statement:

Newly elected Kevin Vuong plans to do the job that a downtown Toronto riding voted him in to do, despite the prior Spadina–Fort York MP Adam Vaughan trying to coax a resignation. The denouncement only came after Vuong won despite being dumped by the Liberals, following the revelation of a sexual assault charge that was dropped.

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“I just don’t have the heart for it.” Annamie Paul’s immediate resignation as federal Green leader comes one week short of a year after winning the race to replace Elizabeth May—during which Paul unsuccessfully tried two times to win Toronto Centre, as the party’s vote dried up.

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The strange spin from Beijing

Meng Wanzhou got a red-carpet welcome in China after three years under house arrest in Vancouver, which ended after U.S. and Canadian prosecutors made a deal. Released in turn, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor had Justin Trudeau greet them in Calgary, leaving Chinese state media to claim this wasn’t a case of hostage diplomacy:

Global Times @globaltimesnews

From 2017 to 2018, Michael Kovrig entered China under the disguise of the forged identity of a businessman and had collected a large amount of information on China's national security through his contacts in Beijing, Shanghai & Jilin: source

globaltimes.cnExclusive: Two Canadians confess guilt, granted bail for medical reasons before leaving China: sourceTwo Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, confessed their guilt and were approved to be bailed out to await trial for medical reasons before they departed China on a plane to Canada on Friday, the Global Times learned from sources

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Hudson’s Bay got its best press in a while for putting Zellers signs around some low-end merchandise. The future of the department store may be unclear, but HBC reviving the discount brand for a “pop-up” in Burlington, Ontario, sparked much online nostalgia. But the experience of visiting micro-Zellers didn’t match expectations.

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Finally, five long years of JBP

Jordan Peterson is scheduled to visit the University of Cambridge, the British school that rescinded his fellowship in March 2019. This week also marks a full half-decade since JBP became a celebrity via “Professor Against Political Correctness,” a YouTube video now gone from his account. But there’s much evidence of what happened next: