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December 2004
TOBACCO NEWS FROM CANADA Comments by Warren Klass President, FORCES - Canada Before I get to the tobacco news from across Canada, I have a few announcements to make. Forces is taking its annual Christmas break, so I won’t be reporting the tobacco news again until the middle of January. I would like to extend to ALL Forces Canada readers (including our enemies who are avid readers) a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I hope and pray that I have more positive news to report in the New Year. I would like to offer a very special thanks to all those wonderful people throughout Canada, the U.S. and even Europe who sent me stories that regularly appear in Forces Canada. Without the help of these terrific people there is no way this column could be as comprehensive as it is. I would also like to thank those correspondents who took the time to offer me words of encouragement. You have no idea what a morale booster it was. Letters. I get letters. There are a couple of e-mails I received from correspondents that I would like to share with Forces Canada readers. One correspondent complained that I was exaggerating how much the Liberals annually give to the anti-smoking PARASITES. I have regularly used the figure of $500 million per year. The exact figure I saw quoted was $480 million a year, which I rounded off to $500 million. As the great Liberal C.D.Howe once said:” A billion here. A billion there. Pretty soon you’re talking about real money.” Apparently I was mistaken. The $480 million is supposedly over five years not per year. Here is the exact convoluted wording from the Government of Canada web site on the question. You figure out how much the Liberals are giving the PARASITES: “With almost five times the funding allocated for the previous federal initiatives, the F.T.C.S. (Federal Tobacco Control Strategy) is a major investment of over $560 million divided among five federal departments over five years, of which $480 million will fund Health Canada initiatives.” Get that? Neither did I. Suffice to say the Liberals are pissing away hundreds of millions a year. Another correspondent was outraged that I had a few nice things to say about Nancy Daigneault of www.mychoice.ca . I was just being nice because she’s a cute chick. But seriously, I’ve heard tons of bitching about My Choice and I’m not saying that I disagree. But I don’t feel it’s my place to criticize someone who is doing their best to help us and get our side heard. There will be more about www.mychoice.ca in the Orillia dateline. Dateline - St. John’s Newfoundland
CBC is also reporting that the smoking ban will include bars and bingos although this will be “phased in” at some future date. Dateline - Orillia, Ontario “Canada is a nation of bitchers.” Former Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chretien
“If this is because of a public health concern, then why do we still allow vehicles and industry to fill the air with far greater pollutants than whiffs of smoke. “The government uses smokers as cash cows and scapegoats…We’re getting to the point where we’re not just protecting non-smokers, but punishing smokers. We think many Canadians have a problem with that.” Dateline - Grey County, Ontario
This was the second such case of its kind recently dismissed in Grey/Bruce County. Dateline - Toronto, Ontario
The CFRA points to the devastation a similar ban has caused in New Brunswick. Dateline - Thunder Bay, Ontario
*93% of bars and lounges report a loss of business. *Average loss reported-43% *Bingo halls reported a 30% loss of business *Reports of staff layoffs reduced hours and cut backs on orders to suppliers. The news was much better for bars and the Grand Portage casino outside of Thunder Bay, which reported much better business. Lack of a smoking ban may have something to do with that. Dateline - Winnipeg, Manitoba
“Only federal parliament has the authority to pass criminal legislation. We say the province doesn’t have the authority. The other argument is that the law infringes on the charter…it results in unequal treatment based on race because it has no effect on First Nation lands.” Gary Desrosier, a hotel owner in Brunkild told the Free Press: “We’ll fight it from every possible direction. Talking to our lawyer he has some positive feelings there are constitutional issues with this law and there’s a good chance to overturn it.” The Free Press also reported that the legal defense fund for Robert Jenkinson, the owner of the Creekside Motel in Treherne who is facing multiple smoking related charges has $15,000 in cash and an equal amount of pledges. Dateline - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
The cost of policing this idiocy was becoming astronomical and business was leaving Saskatoon for nearby communities. Dateline - Fredricton, New Brunswick
But don’t the anti-smoking PARASITES keep assuring anyone who will listen that smoking bans are great for business? Dateline - St. John, New Brunswick
Its not just smoking customers staying away in droves that have hurt the hospitality industry. The Time &Transcript reports that bookings for Christmas and New Years parties have dried up as well. The Time &Transcript wrote:” The results, bars say is fewer customers overall, customers who arrive later, and leave sooner, less revenue, less tip money, fewer hours of work for staff, and fewer spin-off jobs-for example less live entertainment and fewer supplies to be ordered.” Dateline - Simcoe, Ontario
The Reformer claimed “most” tobacco farmers would take a buy-out if offered. Some 35-tobacco farmers have already left the business. The federal Liberals have lowered their compensation offer from $71 million to $61 million, while the provincial Liberal Party (The Dolton Gang) although promising $50 million have yet to come up with a cent of compensation. What do the Liberal Party funded PARASITES hope to accomplish by driving Canada’s tobacco farmers out of business? How is Canada served by importing tobacco from Brazil or Zimbabwe? It’s a lead pipe cinch the Liberals will allow the mass importation of tobacco. Where else would they find $500 million a year for their class of anti-smoking PARASITES? Dateline - Oakville, Ontario
“There has never been an organization of smokers who have risen spontaneously. It always has to be the manufacturers.” (The Tobacco Companies). What about us here at Forces? Even though we have never received a dime from the Tobacco Companies, Gar Mahoodlum has always called us a stooge for Big Tobacco. Non-smoking must have affected his memory because I’ve heard Gar is an avid reader of Forces. The target of Gar’s wrath was not Forces, but rather Nancy Daigneault of www.mycoice.ca who was in Oakville supporting smoker’s rights.Mrs.Daigneault told the Oakville Beaver: “If smokers band together, perhaps the politicians will start to listen. Our goal is to ensure these smokers have a voice and they’re not treated as cash cows.” Dateline - Midland, Ontario
To all those who wrote to me bitching about www.mychoice.ca -how about giving her a chance and some support? Nobody can accuse Nancy of not busting her ass trying to help us. Dateline - Toronto, Ontario
The Toronto Red Star looked at this as well and printed a moronic letter from some Quack in Hamilton who called for tobacco sales are banned in convenience stores. The Convenience Store Association stated that without tobacco sales they’d all be out of business. Speaking of the Red Star, last week they wrote an editorial favoring banning smoking in out door patios-in winter. In fairness to the Red Star, at least they published the following letter: “The argument presented in your editorial regarding prohibiting smoking on adjacent patios of some bars was among the most foolish and ludicrous I have ever seen committed to paper. Yes, bars have tried to create a more hospitable environment for their patrons who smoke because those customers deserve just as much consideration as non-smokers who may occupy the inside of any bar or restaurant. Non-smokers who choose to “enjoy a coffee in the frosty air” do so with every knowledge there may well be a smoker in their midst. To tell bars they must go out of business to satisfy the one or two “hearty souls” who want a coffee outside is criminally negligent in my view. Smokers whether you choose to recognize it or not, are integral to the survival of many bars and, I remind you, are people as well. Smokers can only perceive these actions as direct attacks that would not be tolerated by any other segment of society.” Joe LaFortune Dateline - Winnipeg, Manitoba
“I own part of a family-operated rural hotel. The current legislation is hammering the rural hotels. Don’t think for a moment that the smoking ban is saving lives. Its ruining lives… Our employees are struggling more than ever. Their wages and tips are suffering and some are unable to pay their bills as a result. Recent stats show unemployment in the food, beverage, and hospitality sector has risen. Considering 17 out of 22 of our staff smoke, who is this law protecting again? The reality is that our governments are far more addicted to gambling, smoking, alcohol than bar owners and their patrons.” D. Olston Here is another letter from a rural bar owner that appeared in Friday’s Winnipeg Free Press: “As far as my customers and staff getting sick and dropping like flies, who are you kidding? We have been around second-hand smoke our whole lives and yet there has only been one Workers Compensation claim, proven by lawyers, not doctors, attributed to second-hand smoke in the history of Canada. (Ed.note-The infamous Heather Crowe blood-libel) The bottom line is, I have invested my life savings in my business and you as a consumer already have the right to avoid second-hand smoke by not patronizing. I as a business owner have now had the right of who I am permitted to deal with taken away. Regardless of whether people smoke in my bar they will still smoke, and sadly all of us will eventually die. Please don’t let the government and this legislation cause my staff to lose their jobs, and me to lose my business prior to that event.” Gary Desrosiers Also from the Free Press, columnist Lindor Reynolds wrote a bunch of idiocy about second-hand smoke and asthma. Reynolds along with the Edmonton Sun’s Mindelle Jacobs are undoubtedly the two biggest morons to write columns for big city newspapers. I have been an asthmatic for 45 years and a smoker for 35 years. THERE ARE NO ALLERGENS IN CIGARETTE SMOKE. In 1979,the U.S. Surgeon General wrote:” Evidence that tobacco smoke is antigenic in man, however is meager and controversial…”(1979 Report of the Surgeon General.p.10-9). In the 1970s they tested the claims of hypochondriacs who claimed to be “allergic to second-hand smoke” by putting them in a sealed room, and telling them that cigarette smoke was going to be piped in. Instead only warm air and hypoallergenic aromatics were pumped in. They had the same hypochondriac reaction. The 92-page Osteen decision vacated (null and void) this garbage. There is a ton of information on this topic in the Forces evidence archives. But why let anything as mundane as the truth stand in the way of the polemical ranting of a know-nothing bitch? Speaking of hypochondriacs, last week the Winnipeg Sun published a letter from some hypochondriac bitching about some guy wearing cologne on a bus and claiming to be allergic. This is an other area, by the way devoid of substantiating evidence. Thomas Laprade, however, wrote a funny letter to the Sun on this topic. Here is what Thomas wrote under the headline Impose ban on scents: “RE: All too common scents (H. Gettie, Letter of the day, Dec.9) A lady complains about about the liberal use of cologne on a gentleman. I think its time to start working on a Perfume-Free Bylaw.” Thomas Laprade Dateline - Edmonton, Alberta
In correspondence with the Edmonton Sun, Georgina Lovell compared cigarettes to Mustard Gas. Honest. This elicited the following two letters. The second one from the aforementioned Thomas Laprade. Here are the letters: “Re: Georgina Lovell’s Dec. 5 letter. It is obvious that Lovell has done no independent research on the subject if she still believes the anti-tobacco industry’s old wives tale about the evils of tobacco smoke. Accurate scientific measurements, numerous epidemiological studies, and court decisions have all reached the same conclusion: that tobacco poses no health risk to non-smokers. A non-smoker working in a smoking environment and living with a smoker inhales the equivalent of three to five cigarettes a year.” A. Ritchie “Georgina Lovell’s Dec.6 letter comparing second-hand smoke to mustard gas is an insult to my intelligence. Sunlight is a Class A carcinogen. Should people stay indoors all the time? Chlorine is a class A carcinogen and is added to your drinking water. Should people stop drinking water? Poison is the dose. Thomas Laprade Also from Edmonton, the Edmonton Sun reports that since smoking was banned in Alberta jails the price of a contraband pack of smokes has reached $600. Dateline - Fort St. John, B.C. December 13 - Both Canada.com and the Alaska Highway News have reported on the effects of banning smoking on the school grounds at a Fort St. John high school. The kids are running across 4 lane highways to have a cigarette. The number of kids smoking has by the way increased significantly. It’s only a matter of time before one of these kids gets run over. The Principal is calling for a relaxation of the ban before a kid gets run over. The anti-smoking nuts are of course hysterical about kids smoking on school property. Dateline - St John’s, Newfoundland
CBC quotes Marcel Ethridge, the owner of the Captain’s Quarter’s pub in downtown St John’s as saying:
“Quite frankly, I’m absolutely disgusted with it all…Really what we’re seeing here is prohibition through the back door by making bar owners and the hospitality industry suffer rather than simply saying, if the product is no good, take it off the market and ban it completely.”
The Newfoundland hospitality industry is already organizing a court challenge. The Newfoundland hospitality industry is one of the largest employers in the perennial have-not province responsible for 13,000 jobs, including 1 in 7 for young people.
The Newfoundland hospitality industry quotes figures from nearby New Brunswick that claims a 24% loss in business since their provincial smoking ban was imposed. Dateline - Montreal, Quebec
Robert Proctor, The Campaign Against Tobacco, The Nazi War On Cancer. Page 202 Canadian Press and the Grope and Flail both reported on a Montreal datelined story that attempts to equate smoking and “mental illness”. Here are some highlights of this study: “People with psychiatric illnesses are between two and eight times more likely to become addicted to nicotine than the general population, said the study published recently in the magazine Archives of General Psychiatry. Women who suffer from panic attacks were five times more at risk, those with antisocial behavior were 8.5 times higher at risk, and men with dependent personalities were eight times more likely to become dependent than the average public, the study concluded.” Let me get this straight-anybody who doesn’t happen to subscribe to the secularized Seventh Day Adventist lifestyle propagated by these quacks and charlatans is some kind of nut. (Seventh Day Adventists don’t smoke, drink coffee, alcohol, and carbonated beverages, take drugs, gamble, and etc. etc.l ive on average 6 months longer than us sinners. The ”premature deaths“ song and dance is base lined against 7th Day Adventists). I can guaranty the psychological afflictions of smokers can be easily cured, if all the anti-smoking PARASITES, the Liberal and N.D.P. Party were all sent on a one-way smoke-free Air Canada flights, with a complimentary copy of the Grope and Flail to Angola to clear landmines. Depression among smokers would be but a distant memory. Dateline - Orillia, Ontario
Chief Sharon Stinson Henry of the Mnjikaning First Nation Indian tribe told Orillia Today: “We are the decision makers on all issues concerning Mnjikaning First Nation.” The Orillia Packet &Times reported that Nancy Daigneault of www.mychoice.ca has made a stop in Orillia opposing the proposed Ontario smoking ban. Dateline - Mississiauga, Ontario
Sign carried by a pro-Bush demonstrator in Ottawa during the recent visit by President Bush. Carolyn Parrish is the M.P. for Mississauga, recently kicked out of the Liberal Party for repeatedly insulting President Bush and the American people. Besides the endless idiocy of Sweet Carolyn there is some tobacco news to report out of Mississiauga. Newswire.ca reports on another convenience store robbery where cigarettes were the targets. Three thugs armed with handguns and butcher knives robbed a Mississauga convenience store of its cigarette supply. Dateline - Toronto, Ontario
The National Post stated this is the first attempt to gauge how smoking bans have impacted the hospitality industry. Although the National Post tried to spin this as collateral damage from the hockey strike, they did quote Pierre Labelle, the owner Ottawa’s Chateau Lafayette bar as saying: “The smoking is what’s killing the hospitality industry.” The Toronto Sun reported that John Filion, the chairman of the Toronto health board has sent letters to hospitality venues with patios that plastic sheets installed to protect smokers from the cold are illegal. The Toronto Red Star not surprisingly published an editorial applauding the winter outdoor patio-smoking ban. If you are in Toronto, please cancel your subscription to the Red Star, and don’t patronize advertisers. Dateline - Winnipeg, Manitoba
The Winnipeg Sun reported what inmates are doing for cigarettes since the NDP banned smoking in provincial jails-ripping pages out of the Bible to use as rolling papers because” Bibles are ideal because the pages are thin and burn easily.” The inmates boil chewing tobacco and mix the residue with tea bags and rip pages out of the Bible to roll cigarettes. It’s a shame they don’t give inmates copies of the Grope and Flail or the Toronto Star-the secular bibles of Canadian Liberalism instead. Burning those two rags is no big loss. Envelopes are used for the glue. Double AA batteries, tin foil and staples are used for lighting these cigarettes. The smoke is blown in vents. The provincial NDP government is spending $500,000 on an advertising campaign to rehabilitate Manitoba’s image. Why would Manitoba need an image makeover? Our prison inmates burn the Bible because of a smoking ban. Our hospitality industry is being wiped out. And the medical establishment that designed this policy finish last in Canada in the McLean’s Magazine survey for the past dozen years when not testifying before a tribunal about how they knowingly sent 12 babies to a certain slaughter in furtherance of The Learning Curve. Manitoba-One Great Province. Dateline - Ottawa, Ontario
Ujjal has been busy. This past week, he promised the $500 Liberal PARASITE INDUSTRY he would ban light and mild cigarettes. Light and Mild cigarettes were imposed by an edict from another Liberal Health Minister in the 70s.Autre temps. Autre shmoes. Canadian Press reported that Ujjal plans to mandate self-extinguishing cigarettes. The tobacco companies are quoted as saying these” taste awful.” The tobacco companies are predicting a wave of smuggling when this crap is mandated. With great fanfare, Ujjal put out a press release announcing the Liberals had ratified some “Tobacco Control Treaty.” Here is what our beloved Liberal Party’s press release said: “Canada is a world leader in tobacco control. I am proud to say Canada’s strong legislation and regulations inspired many of the articles in the convention. The FCTC is, in fact, based on a Canadian idea. In many cases Canada already meets, and exceeds the requirements of the convention.” Having a failed political hack, one step off the boat telling everyone how to live is what I like about this country. Blame Canada. More people smoke in Canada than vote for the Liberal Party in federal elections. Dateline - Simcoe, Ontario
Don’t be fooled-under the usual phony pretexts just more patronage for party hacks. Dateline - London, Ontario
In just the past several months, a dozen store clerks were robbed of cigarettes in the London area. There has been a 28% increase in tobacco related robberies in Ontario over the past three years. Dateline - Chatham, Ontario
Dateline - Mississauga, Ontario
Dateline - Toronto, Ontario
“Bob Jone’s suggestion (Second-hand pot, letter Nov.27) that consideration be given to the effects of second hand marijuana smoke when Parliament considers decriminalization seems like an iron fist in a velvet glove. Keeping his logic in mind, why doesn’t Parliament just make it illegal for anyone to smoke anything at any time in their lives? David Coates Also from Toronto comes a press release from the Kumbaya gang at Toronto city council reminding businesses that outdoor patio smoking is now banned. But aren’t smoking bans supposed to be about the protection of non-smokers and not social engineering? Dateline - Winnipeg, Manitoba
“The smoking ban wasn’t a high-handed government attempt to destroy small businesses or compromise the rural way of life. Smoking is going to kill you. That may be your choice, but you don’t have the right to take out the person standing next to you.” Hitler said the very same thing. Dateline - Calgary, Alberta
Canadian figures quoted by Jackson show 30% of 15-17 year olds smoke pot.47% of 18-19 year olds hoot up. These kids have all been brainwashed that pot is benign while tobacco is bad- BAD! Jackson claims with considerable justification that modern day pot-very different than stuff from the 60s-contains 50-70% more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than tobacco. The THC level (the ingredient that gets you stoned) is up to 25%, up from 1% in the early 60s. Why aren’t the liberals spending $396,000 for the sequel to Reefer Madness? Dateline - Red Deer, Alberta
Smoking is banned in Alberta jails. Dateline - Edmonton, Alberta
Kerry wrote a column about a group of busybodies at the Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton who want outdoor smoking banned on campus. Average age of students? 21.Most part time students are 28-29. Mindelle, as to be expected cheered on the Liberals attempt to ban cigarette advertising with her usual bombastic diatribe. Yaaawwwwn. Before I get to the tobacco news from across Canada, I’ve been asked to help publicize a brand new web site: lastcallOntario.ca .The site has been put out by the Canadian Restaurant and Food Association (CFRA) and the Ontario Restaurant, Hotel and Motel Association. If you are in Ontario and want to help stop McGuinty’s plan to devastate the Ontario hospitality industry click on lastcallOntario.ca .I can attest it’s a very good site. Dateline - Montreal, Quebec
The Canadian Supreme Court in 1995 ruled the previous law unconstitutional, so the Liberals wrote an even more restrictive law-and appointed a bunch of social engineers to the Supreme Court. The case right now is in the Quebec Court of Appeals, but it’s a virtual certainty it will go back to the Supreme Court. Christina Dona, a spokeswoman for Imperial Tobacco (B.A.T) stated:” The question is about freedom of speech and the right to free expression. The Tobacco Act was already struck down as unconstitutional because it contained a total ban on advertising and we think this is still the case.” Dateline - Toronto, Ontario
Personally speaking as a parent of two teenagers myself-if you allow two shmucks like McGuinty and Smitherman to tell you how to live your life-then you’re really f------ stupid. Yeah, stupid. I’m not saying smoking or drinking or drugs or gambling are particularly healthy activities. I tell my kids the only thing far more dangerous “is a bunch of pain in the ass do-gooders telling you how to live your life.” A far more polite response to stupid.ca was contained in a letter published on Monday in the Toronto Red Star. Here is what was published: “This site is a publicly funded dirty insult to all its citizens even though its smokers who are the target. The statement that ”tobacco is the only commercial product …that is both lethal and deadly when used as intended” is so erroneous that it screams propaganda. Prescription and non-prescription drugs, automobiles, and an endless list of commercial products on the market can also be lethal and deadly when used as intended. The government’s crusade against smokers, at the expense of so many critical issues with in health care that need to be addressed, is a blatantly obvious attempt to stir up citizens who really don’t believe smoking to be a major issue anymore and to justify future plans for further destruction of freedom of choice and individual rights aimed at 20 per cent of the population of Canada. Tactics of this nature are beneath contempt.” Jann Hogg Dateline - Treherne, Manitoba
CBC reports that at least 24 other bars and restaurants in rural Manitoba are defying the smoking ban. Dateline - Winnipeg, Manitoba
C.P. quotes Industry Minister Jim Rondeau, who as Minister of Silly Walks er Minister of Healthy Living who imposed the smoking bans as saying, “If you look at stats from California, if you look at stats in other places that have gone non-smoking, over the years the retail has increased.” Oh really? Here are the facts: the only place where business increases after smoking bans are in take out and in fast-food (under 15 minute stays). These liars come up with this garbage by blending statistics from a rise in fast food and take-out with the huge losses suffered by traditional sit down restaurants. Voila-no overall loss of business. Smoking bans are a windfall for MacDonalds, but devastating if you own a traditional sit-down restaurant. Manitoba is not California with a 12-month patio season. Even in California enforcement of the smoking ban is sporadic, especially outside the big cities. The re-sale value of restaurants and bars in California plummeted after smoking bans were imposed, according to at least two comprehensive, credible studies, one by accounting firm KPMG Peat Marwick, the other by Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business. Dateline - Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan
The Meadow Lake Progress recently ran an article about Saskatchewan’s upcoming smoking ban, and quoted the following comment from a TOTAL LIAR at the Canadian Cancer Society. Here is the salient part of the Progress story: “According to numerous research studies cited by the Canadian Cancer Society, smoke-free legislation has no impact on the hospitality industry. “There is simply no credible evidence to suggest that significant losses will happen”, said tobacco control co-coordinator Donna Pasiechnik. The Society also expressed concern over the Hotel Association of Saskatchewan claim that smoking ban will lead to economic losses for the industry. “For the next year, every time a bar or restaurant closes its doors, the hotel association will cry out that that the smoking ban caused it, regardless of every factor in the economy.” Lets get this straight. Either Forces Canada and Forces International have for year after year, despite meticulous documentation been lying to you about the effect of smoking bans-or the likes of Donna Pasiechnik is a complete and TOTAL LIAR. Nietzsche once said that to differentiate truth from lies a good nose was required because falsehood leaves a terrible smell. Look at any place smoking bans have been imposed. Doesn’t it look like the after effects of a Neutron bomb, where the buildings survive but the people are all gone? Dateline - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
“Saskatoon’s Golden Arrow bingo hall breathed its last puff of air late Sunday night after the city’s smoking ban slashed the company’s business in half, forcing it to close, says the hall manager. “We have closed due to the fact of sales dropping drastically due to the non-smoking bylaw” said bingo hall manager Tammy Longworth. Bingo parlors have reported a loss of $1.2 million in revenue in the first three months after the bylaw took effect. Earlier this month, council agreed to take a second look at the smoking ban’s impact, after City of Bridges Bingo Association representative Bob Dybvig told council 300 charities, sports teams, service clubs and bands are losing an estimated $726,000 in revenue. The hall is the second, after Eastside Bingo Palace in Market Mall, to close since the smoking ban took effect. As for the future, Longworth said her plans don’t include operating another bingo hall-a business she has been in for 20 years.” Dateline - Jasper, Alberta
The Jasper Booster reports they are trying to construct a smoking policy that takes into account:”interests of both smokers and non-smokers, right to livelihood (enables business to continue being viable) and avoids polarizing communities.” How un-Canadian. It almost sounds civilized. < Back To "I read the news..." > |
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December 16 - Speaking
of the Liberal Party funded PARASITES; CBC is reporting that the
Canadian Cancer Society assures the Newfoundland hospitality industry
about to be decimated by a province-wide smoking ban they “will
adjust.” As Dr. Evil said in the Austin Powers movies: ”Riiiiggghhhhttt.”