I, Napoleon

Groomers I, Napoleon 4 Comments

It’s almost as though this drag queen thing has a sex angle.

A Barrie, Ont., jury found Innisfil Pride founder Jake Tucker guilty of multiple sex-trafficking-related charges involving the pimping of two Barrie women.

The 39-year-old told reporters after the trial that he would immediately appeal the decision. He denied ever running an escort business and said he would not have had time to pimp out two women while operating a swingers club and working in transportation, a food truck and a school bus job.

Tucker wore a shirt reading “No More Stolen Sisters” at the courthouse on Wednesday and denied all charges against him despite the jury’s verdict.

Going Bust?

Gradually Then Suddenly It's Probably Nothing There Goes The Narrative 15 Comments

About 10 years ago I visited Monette Farms and I was intrigued by their aggressive business model. But now that a lot of their debt has to be refinanced at much higher interest rates, their creditors are knocking at the door. I can’t help but think that they’re not alone.

…company founder Darrel Monette put land up for sale to generate cash. His largest creditor, a syndicate of lenders led by Scotiabank, worked with him time and again to try to keep the Saskatchewan-based farm afloat.

It didn’t work.

Monette didn’t sell enough land, and the syndicate loan, originally $950 million with $830 million outstanding, came due April 15. Monette owes about $905 million in secured debt, and the nearly 500,000-acre operation faces massive restructuring if it hopes to survive.

 

Left Coast, Lost Cause

Chief Big Screen TV We Are All Treaty People 9 Comments

Tom Fletcher;

It appeared to be a timely bit of good news in BC’s glacial 35-year modern treaty talks, when David Eby’s NDP government introduced two new treaties for provincial approval in April, with a third expected to follow shortly.

That moment of apparent progress came as Eby was forced into a series of humiliating back-downs on his efforts to rein in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and its threat to upset the legal basis of British Columbia’s existence. The political leadership of BC’s 203 indigenous communities simply vetoed Eby’s proposed changes and deferrals, raising the question of whether the province has lost its authority to govern.

Treaties hammered out over decades with the K’omoks First Nation on Vancouver Island and the Kitselas First Nation on the northwest coast were tabled in the BC legislature for ratification, with a third treaty for the Kitsumkalem First Nation in the northwest expected to follow. The protests began even before they were introduced.

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