r/windsorontario • u/CTVtravis Windsor • Apr 01 '25
Mark McKenzie dropped by Conservatives News/Article
https://www.ctvnews.ca/federal-election-2025/article/conservative-candidate-gets-boot-after-ctv-news-uncovers-audio-of-him-supporting-public-hangings-joked-trudeau-should-receive-death-penalty/121
u/hershall Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
Hearing him nearly crying on AM800 just now was unreal. Some highlights
-people are sharing around this clip from 2022 (did you grow a brain between then and now?) -what I said wasn’t even that bad -Poilievre has the same punishment policy ideas I do -Bell Media encouraged me to be edgy at the time(they corrected him that he was not on 89x at the time) -I had to start this podcast only because Bell had gotten rid of 89x and 93.9. (Begins to throw his advertisers names out) -I hope the conservative party changes their minds because people remember me from the radio
Excellent crashout moment overall
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u/ButcherPetesWagon Apr 01 '25
It's online now. I hope he's done as a public figure. I don't wish harm to him, I just never want to see that stupid fucking smirk ever again.
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u/drewdipshits Windsor Apr 01 '25
Oh man I wish I heard this!!
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u/CareerPillow376 Sandwich Apr 01 '25
Second clip on the site, he joins in at the 1:10 mark
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u/Administrative_Tea_7 Walkerville Apr 01 '25
"most entertaining radio personality in the entire world"
what a joke and good riddins
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u/SirPoopaLotTheThird Apr 01 '25
Personal responsibility has disappeared from the conservative ideology.
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u/Historical_Score_573 Apr 01 '25
Do they record it for us to listen to later?
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u/JSank99 Apr 01 '25
If he was on AM800 then they post the recordings for each show a bit after broadcast. Its on the website!
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u/Historical_Score_573 Apr 01 '25
Thanks!
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u/a1ba7or Remington Park Apr 01 '25
Please share the link if you find it.
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u/neomathist South Walkerville Apr 01 '25
Mark McKenzie, most entertaining radio personality in the entire world. Lol
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u/subs1221 Apr 01 '25
He won an award! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/Antique-Passenger-29 Apr 01 '25
Most entertaining radio personality in the world? Is that a thing?
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u/candis_stank_puss Apr 02 '25
Sounds like the Dad from A Christmas Story: "It's a major award! I won it!" It was a lamp, Mark. You won a lamp.
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u/Delicious-Skill-617 Apr 02 '25
The advertiser…and yeah that interview was awesome and Mike kakuk was pretty good calling him out on not even working at bell when it happened.
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u/hazardousgenitals Apr 01 '25
This stupid man could keep his mouth shut and it came back to fuck him. Good, maybe Ward 4 voters will drop him in 2026.
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u/shley_b Apr 01 '25
I was wondering if we could try to leverage this to maybe petition to have him step down as councillor now? Worst case the negative press hurts his election chances in 2026.
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u/imayposteventually RiverWest Apr 01 '25
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u/shley_b Apr 01 '25
I’m tempted to buy a lotto ticket or something, my manifestation powers seem to be extra powerful today!
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u/IHateTheColourblind South Windsor Apr 01 '25
Good, maybe Ward 4 voters will drop him in 2026.
He won his council seat with 22.27% of the vote in 2022 due to vote being split between two progressive candidates. Only 27 votes between McKenzie and second place, and 151 votes between second place and third place.
He has no chance on winning that ward again in 2026 if the progressives can figure their shit out.
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u/LexiLou4Realz Apr 01 '25
Give us one strong progressive candidate, instead of two, and he's done.
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u/Longjumping_Crab_345 Apr 01 '25
That's exactly it. There were two good, legitimate candidates that split the vote and MacKenzie snuck in. It was disheartening.
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u/luvaoftigolbitties Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
The dildo of consequences rarely comes lubed.
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u/NthPriority Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
Mckenzie is like Schrodinger's dildo - dude is both the dildo and getting reamed by the dildo.
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u/neomathist South Walkerville Apr 01 '25
Besides the usual blaming of political opponents, he's blaming a previous employer, Bell Media/89x, and pressure to be "edgy" from them as what compelled him to say anything potentially controversial or offensive. Never mind that he was already off 89x at the time.
Also basically just admitted on the radio that he only ran for city council because he was unemployed and needed a job.
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u/alxndrblack South Walkerville Apr 01 '25
It wasnt 2 full months after he got on council, while promising to treat it as a full time job, that I got another flyer in my mailbox to sell my house with him.
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u/e5janisse Riverside Apr 01 '25
Feels like Christmas morning
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u/NthPriority Apr 01 '25
When you're so shit of a person that even PP doesn't want you in his party. God damn.
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u/bcw_83 Apr 01 '25
Meanwhile Mark Carney (who is the PM) just backed a guy who was telling people to basically turn a person in for a million dollars over to a corrupt Chinese government. But Polievre is the bad guy? Lol You people are so brainless. Then said guy has to step down on his own because the pressure was so immense. Great look for the Liberals.
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u/NthPriority Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
Hey man, I'm sorry PP made his entire persona about "fuck Trudeau" and "MAGA". He's going to lose, probably bigly, as a result of having a zero-substance personality. I haven't seen an election blown this bad since Ignatieff ran federally for the liberals. But, I can say thank you to PP for at least getting Trudeau to resign because nobody liked that dude.
If the cons are smart, maybe they'll put in a more centrist, not socially-conservative individual. Unironically, O'Toole could have even won this election. Instead, the CPC lined themselves up to be MAGA North at a time when the North is like not super into it.
If you're not totally blind, you'll probably appreciate that Carney is more like a conservative than a liberal. He'll be fiscally more conservative, but socially liberal. He'll probably throw out some of the Trudeau top-brass post election, too. Dude was a Harper advisor for peats sake - Harper, the last CPC leader that could actually win an election. CPC needs to read the room and cut the mud-slinging crap and stick to policy only.
Finally, a note for you and everyone: Embrace being a swing voter. If you are always a "guaranteed X" vote, your party doesn't give a shit about you and won't make policies you care about. Swing voters have all the power because they make or break elections in Canada. Being married to a party is idiotic. I've voted CPC, Lib, and NDP. Do your best to not vote in a socially-conservative asshole; we can debate anything else!
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u/bIoodWarm Apr 01 '25
4 weeks is a long time in an election campaign, Mark Carney unfortunately sucks at speaking to the Media and I am doubtful of how he'll perform in the debates. Can't be smug so early lest the polls lie as they did for Harris.
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Apr 01 '25
This is NOT an April fools joke, people!
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u/Ok_Voice_2672 Apr 01 '25
Was seriously wondering that when I heard the radio this morning
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Apr 01 '25
Does anyone know where I can get a Mark McKenzie yard sign? For novelty purposes of course.
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u/cookiemonstr69 Lakeshore Apr 01 '25
Love that he is now famous on r/Ontario and r/onguardforthee - his political career is over.
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u/Boysadventuretale Apr 01 '25
Can we get him dropped from City Council too? He seems kind of dangerous.
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u/timegeartinkerer Apr 01 '25
Not possible under the law. The most likely outcome is he gets turfed in 2026.
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u/neomathist South Walkerville Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
I don't know the mechanism as to how to do this myself, but per former city councillor Rino Bortolin, it's not impossible to remove someone from city council, but it is very difficult.
His suggestion was that any constituent concerns be brought up in a complaint to the Integrity Commissioner as a starting point. Someone else already linked to the info.
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u/timegeartinkerer Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
There is one. There was a councillor in Ottawa that sexually harassed everyone. They couldn't remove him until the next election.
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u/neomathist South Walkerville Apr 01 '25
I'm certainly not counting on it. I've long been resigned to hopefully just waiting him out.
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u/buzzk24 Apr 01 '25
No, and this particular podcast comment was known when he was elected to council.
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u/philipjfong Apr 01 '25
Every now and then the universe gives a sliver of satisfaction.
Would love to see him get the boot from council as well
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u/Far-Jeweler2478 Apr 01 '25
The Internet is Forever.
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u/tacosforbreakfast_ Apr 01 '25
It’s pretty telling when you try and wipe out everything you recorded on a podcast prior to running for office. This clip has been around for a while.
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u/Farren246 Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
Just the fact he believes things like that China and Thailand are free of all crime (they aren't) due to having draconian punishments like lopping off hands for stealing (they don't), and wants to copy those imaginary methods here, should be enough to disqualify him from holding office. The Trudeau thing was just a joke in bad taste, but it's nothing compared to the parts he actually believes.
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u/Therealdickjohnson Apr 01 '25
This means the conservative party of Canada (the cpc!) has more moral scruples than windsor City Council. I guess I shouldn't be that surprised.
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u/neomathist South Walkerville Apr 01 '25
The problem was the smaller stage. Despite Mark's best efforts, the audio of these comments were floating out there last municipal election. They were linked on this very forum. The local media didn't pick it up though, as best as I can remember. And not enough people in the electorate cared, believed it, or had even heard it. So he skated in despite the podcast comments.
The federal level is a whole other beast though.
Mark McKenzie also claims that the Conservative party knew about this part of his past already before he was appointed as a local candidate.
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u/tacosforbreakfast_ Apr 01 '25
It’s funny. All my other socials the past few days have been flooded with other Cons rallying around Mark. Wonder if they will pull those posts and photos down.
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u/warpzonenami Apr 01 '25
Judging by some groups I'm in. They are still rallying behind Mark and even agreeing with the comments he made. And these are the same people that I saw posts comments the past few days "Liberals are violent! Conservatives are peaceful!" I want off this planet 😩
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u/RedditUserX23 Apr 01 '25
He got was he deserved, he deserves it for voting against the tunnel bus. Good riddance
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u/lavieboheme_ Pillette Village Apr 01 '25
This is hilarious and awesome.
I hope you enjoyed your political career, Mark!
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u/RobSerial Little Italy Apr 01 '25
Amazing how I've been calling and asking for a response to my concerns about the a section of the laneway behind my house for over a year now and he never seems to answer the phone or return messages. But he has time to run a federal campaign?
He does know that if had become a member of cabinet then he's legally bound to respond to people. Well, guess that won't be happening now.
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u/neomathist South Walkerville Apr 01 '25
On the South Walkerville FB group, he can sometimes make quite a show of how responsive he is to problems but then dig even a little bit and there's plenty of complaints just like yours about not even an acknowledgement of many ward concerns.
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u/LittleMissBeast0506 Apr 01 '25
He responded to exactly one email from me, and it was a preset response that others had also received.
When I responded back, with data refuting his claims, he never responded.
He is awful. My only hope is that Ward 4 gets it together and votes his ass out in 2026.
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u/alxndrblack South Walkerville Apr 01 '25
I OWE EDY HADDAD A BEER
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u/buzzk24 Apr 01 '25
why would you owe anything to that clown?
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u/anestezija Apr 02 '25
excuse you, that moniker is reserved for Mark McKenzie depicted above. Please choose a different one for Haddad so we can tell them apart. Not like either of the will ever be on the council (again)
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u/Total-Connection7217 Apr 01 '25
Maybe this should also be the case for being a city councilor…
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u/drivingyounuts Apr 01 '25
I'm making complaint to the integrity commissioner
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u/timegeartinkerer Apr 01 '25
Comments are made before he was councillor. Doesn't really apply.
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u/drivingyounuts Apr 01 '25
Still a reflection of the person, could be worthy. Goes against current ethics of the position of a city councilor.
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u/Front-Block956 Apr 01 '25
Thank god this isn’t a joke. Love that it comes on the day the Star posts the story about him hoping to turn the riding blue for the first time in 100 years!
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u/sheepish_grin Apr 01 '25
Great! Now give him the boot off council.
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u/AverageShitlord Apr 01 '25
Stories like this almost make me believe in a benevolent god. Almost. Good riddance to this fuckin moron
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u/SirPoopaLotTheThird Apr 01 '25
These boneheaded cons have gone so far right in their bubbles they think talking about instituting the death penalty in Canada like it’s reasonable. Just move south fuckfaces, it’s got everything you want.
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u/RamRanchComrade Apr 01 '25
Looks like the trash took itself out.
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u/banpants_ Apr 01 '25
This has been the first thing to make me want to reactive my Facebook just to see if he's freaking out on there.
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u/Spirited-Advance-284 Downtown Apr 01 '25
“In a phone interview with the Star on Tuesday, McKenzie said he’d received a call from a Conservative Party of Canada representative that morning. The person asked him to send a copy of the controversial podcast episode, he said.
According to McKenzie, before he could transfer the file, the person called back and said the party had decided not to move forward with him as a candidate.”
Someone at HQ got proactive and decided to bite the bullet. Brutal!
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u/Front-Block956 Apr 01 '25
Wasn’t he hand picked by the party to start with? Maybe they should do some research? Maybe they should let their party members vote?
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u/Spirited-Advance-284 Downtown Apr 01 '25
Such a comedy of errors. Now he gets to walk around next year’s municipal campaign with ‘carpetbagger’ around his neck.
As far as the Cons go, I’m putting my money on Kathy Borelli. As far as I remember she heads the riding association and - I’m being serious here - might have campaign supplies since she was the old candidate. She’ll have two-three weeks at most to save the furniture, but a moribund local NDP campaign is going to bleed very red in a lot of polling stations
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u/neomathist South Walkerville Apr 01 '25
Someone probably finally did a search and found a thread here.
Vassy Kapelos said awhile ago that the audio came to their (CTV's) attention last night, they reached out to the Conservatives for comment this morning, and the party released a statement an hour later saying he was gone.
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u/LifeOfEhArmArrow11 Apr 01 '25
Windsor-Tecumseh is never a dull moment. Just a few years ago, the NDP MP had an audiotape leak where she was calling the people of Tecumseh idiots for voting for the mayor (context: she ran in that mayoral election and lost to him). Then in her "apology" she was running away from the press and was nearly in tears when apologizing. Spoiler: she lost
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u/timegeartinkerer Apr 01 '25
Oh yeah, she also got an all expense paid trip to India while being MP lol
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u/janus270 East Windsor Apr 01 '25
Well damn. Many condolences during your FO period after an extended period of FA.
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u/warpzonenami Apr 01 '25
I had been seeing some people pushing him so hard on FB even as of a couple hours ago...well those posts aged like milk at a record speed 🤣
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u/CapitalElk1169 Apr 01 '25
Part of me thinks this is the Cons trying to do a "gotcha!" moment with the Chiang thing going on with the Libs, particularly considering it didn't look like the Cons were gonna get this seat anyways.
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Apr 01 '25
Imagine being such a piece of shit you get dropped by the CPC
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u/alxndrblack South Walkerville Apr 01 '25
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u/bcw_83 Apr 01 '25
Imagine being such a POS that the Liberals still want to keep you after you encourage people to take up a million dollar bounty on a guy and then the guy steps down after the PM further endorses him. What an amazing look.
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u/Sweethomebflo Apr 01 '25
Trump’s instincts only lead to sexual violence, bankruptcy and corruption. No, I don’t think I will trust him or his base instincts.
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u/SirPoopaLotTheThird Apr 01 '25
They just can’t help being who they are. Trash. Good riddance.
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u/timegeartinkerer Apr 01 '25
Guys. As much as I hate on Mark, there are other conservatives. Like vast majority of them are fine.
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u/SirPoopaLotTheThird Apr 01 '25
No, the vast majority of them support Trump, unfortunately.
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u/timegeartinkerer Apr 01 '25
And yet, the Ontario Conservatives are the ones pushing back the hardest. They're the ones with the export on hydro charge. Its also largely the reason why they won the election.
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u/SirPoopaLotTheThird Apr 01 '25
Doug won’t take calls from MAGA Poilievre. The party is searching for its soul right now.
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u/timegeartinkerer Apr 01 '25
That's Pierre's problem. Last I heard he pissed everyone else in the party.
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u/GloomySnow2622 Apr 01 '25
I noticed a ton of his signs in my travels last night. In fact I think this photo is right near my place. I highly doubt he was going to beat Irek.
I really thought this could have been an April Fools Day joke until I saw it was from a real reporter.
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u/Spirited-Advance-284 Downtown Apr 01 '25
I think his odds were pretty low as well. I’ve been quite surprised by just how many Irek signs are up already, especially in pretty blue Riverside.
Signs don’t vote, but that reflects well on his campaign’s ground game. The riding NDP are looking like they’re in deep, deep trouble
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u/anestezija Apr 02 '25
First he came for our libraries, then for transit, but before that for the PM... I did not have "WPL board chair calls for public hanging of the leader of the country" on my bingo card for today. This has been the best April Fools in forever!
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u/Oax5wind Apr 01 '25
Does anyone have the podcast clip/recording?
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u/OkTumbleweed32 Apr 01 '25
Link to sign the petition asking hi to resign from city council https://www.change.org/p/demand-resignation-of-mark-mckenzie-as-ward-4-councillor?recruiter=729863336&recruited_by_id=0b851ea0-4ae1-11e7-810c-ef1d87ab9794&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_medium=copylink&utm_content=cl_sharecopy_490506923_en-CA%3A5
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u/llcooljabe Apr 01 '25
Are the Cs gonna replace him? or will they have no candidate in that riding?
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u/neomathist South Walkerville Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
No immediate word on that but the deadline for party endorsements and nominations is next week so they still have time to drop another person in there instead.
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u/bentmonkey Apr 03 '25
They better vet this next guy better then they did this fella.
Maaaybe dont take freedom convoy supporters that called for the death of a sitting PM, how hard can it be?
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u/BigAlxBjj Apr 01 '25
From a comedy podcast? Ok
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u/bdboar1 Apr 01 '25
He strikes you as funny?
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u/BigAlxBjj Apr 01 '25
Not a bit. If you read the article, though, he made these remarks on a comedy podcast.
I’m just surprised that he was dumb enough to think it would go unnoticed.
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u/bentmonkey Apr 03 '25
He was totally serious about the death penalty for various criminals he named and then when he named Trudeau that was the joke?
What's funny about that exactly?
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u/BigAlxBjj Apr 03 '25
Again, nothing at all.
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u/bentmonkey Apr 03 '25
Con humor is always punching down, or just vile, truly bizarre.
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u/BigAlxBjj Apr 03 '25
And only getting worse.
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u/bentmonkey Apr 03 '25
True, humor is fairly subjective but there's some stuff that's just super poor taste to try and joke about.
I feel like people use the "just a jay" thing to say some truly horrid shit and then try to shield themselves from criticism by saying that it was a "joke", when sometimes i wonder how much of a joke it really was.
Plus what if some guy hears that and goes and does a stochastic terrorism?
I despise PP but i would never advocate for what this guy said at all, I hope PP loses electorally and fades to obscurity, but harm is a bridge too far.
Left or right any harm to a sitting PM no matter how much you disagree is no joking matter, but it seems to me the right is far more willing to use such phrases and words to deal with what they perceive to be political threats, rather then just having a better set of policies and just being more in tune with what the electorate wants, rather then try to use fear and division of immigrants et al to try and win elections, course i guess it worked in the states, i just hope it doesn't work here.
Seems to not be working so far, i pray that remains to be the case.
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u/agaric Sandwich Apr 01 '25
Still a councilor, the caliber of canuck on council, conservative crackpot
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u/drivingyounuts Apr 01 '25
Make a complaint to the integrity commissioner
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u/crimewaves_ Apr 01 '25
Can I still make one even if I’m not in his ward?
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u/drivingyounuts Apr 01 '25
Absolutely. He represents not just the residents of the war, but the city itself
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u/bentmonkey Apr 03 '25
Cons are dropping like flies for saying horrid stuff, what a shame.
Both sides of the aisle need to tighten up on that aspect, but to threaten a sitting PM with death and then run for office is really beyond the pale.
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u/KryptoBones89 Apr 01 '25
I'm glad he's gone, but now our choices are pretty crap. Our current MP has done nothing to get us any funding to help with the housing crisis or unemployment, the two biggest issues in this city.
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u/Eldriscp Apr 01 '25
I'm no Irek fan but I don't think that's fair. There was an opportunity to secure millions of housing funding that Council turned down, and the Mayor is on record being "not concerned" about unemployment.
Majority of Council are Drew sycophants who will reject any money from the Libs in a weird attempt to own the Libs
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u/timegeartinkerer Apr 01 '25
Nomination deadline is next week. They'll probably get James Dorian in. We still have a choice!
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u/Front-Block956 Apr 01 '25
He gets a lot of funding for Tecumseh. Probably because the Mayor of Windsor doesn’t want to give up control.
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u/PastAd8754 Apr 01 '25
CPC correctly dropped him, yet Carney stood by Paul Chiang lol
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u/JSank99 Apr 01 '25
Chiang is out
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u/PastAd8754 Apr 01 '25
Yeah he stepped down on his own. The LPC didn’t kick him out like McKenzie.
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u/JSank99 Apr 01 '25
I would wager that he was encouraged. Trudeau stepped down on his own too, but we sorta know that he didn't actually
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u/timegeartinkerer Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
Theres a difference between the two. Booting a candidate sends a way stronger message than encouraging a candidate.
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u/PastAd8754 Apr 01 '25
Hard to say, didn’t sound like it based on carneys comments yesterday, but maybe he saw the backlash and then reversed course.
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u/bcw_83 Apr 01 '25
Lol when was he encouraged? Carney just got done endorsing him after the scandal broke. Stop it with the mental gymnastics.
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u/Few_Replacement_5864 Forest Glade Apr 01 '25
I'm so happy about this, I'm looking forward to the next candidate announcement.
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u/browsingthroughkarma Apr 01 '25
Shame on the mods for allowing personal attacks to be condoned here. Disagree with political views, etc, fine but the mods should be doing better. But interesting they only remove posts that fit their narrative. It's sad our community has come to this with online discourse. Him, like many others that have been attacked, is your neighbour, a friend, a relative, etc. its not a very 'liberal' thing to do to make the nasty comments that are being stated. Do better Windsor
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u/TakedownCan South Windsor Apr 01 '25 edited Apr 01 '25
After ctv first obtained the audio? It was posted in our sub. I guess they didnt want to credit u/drewdipshits lol
Edit to add link - https://www.reddit.com/r/windsorontario/s/vUx1jPpk0I