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Richmond Hill is just saying no. A couple of north GTA municipalities being offered controlled cannabis retail stores by the province are pushing back against the idea. Dave Barrow, the mayor of Richmond Hill, expects constituent objections will lead to a vote against; Markham mayor Frank Scarpitti thinks there are still too many unanswered questions. But former Vaughan MP Julian Fantino faces no such flak for his marijuana storefront—especially now that he’s part of
a larger trend:
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CBC ombudsman rules that Terry Milewski isn’t racist. Jagmeet Singh’s first Power & Politics interview as NDP leader, where Milewski repeatedly asked him to condemn some Sikh temples displaying posters of alleged Air India bombing mastermind Talwinder Parmar, generated about 20 formal complaints. Ombudsman Esther Enkin didn’t agree that the line of questioning was “a racist attack by a racist journalist with a racist axe to grind about this issue,” but acknowledged that Milewski should have provided more context. Now “mostly-retired,” he has plenty of time to keep fighting critics:
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