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'This is part of what this whole campaign is about, is for the Barrie and Innisfil residents to voice their concerns,' says Liberal candidate

Editor's note: BarrieTodayisprofilingfederal candidates in the Barrie-Innisfil andBarrie-Springwater-Oro-Medonteridings.Today we feature Lisa-Marie Wilson, the Liberal candidate in Barrie-Innisfil.For more coverage of the upcoming federal election, visit our Canada Votes 2021 page. *************************

Lisa-Marie Wilson doesnt expect to run the same kind of campaign as she did during the last federal election campaign when she was also the Liberal candidate for Barrie-Innisfil. But since the onset of the pandemic nearly two years ago, nothings been normal anyway.

The probation and parole officer and public school board trustee underwent unexpected surgery Aug. 9 to remove her left kidney where a cancerous tumour was located. Just six days later, Liberal leaderJustin Trudeau dropped the writ declaring a federal election for Sept. 20.

The past one-and-and-half, two years a lot of people have faced adversity, said Wilson, who is on a leave of absence from the Ontario Public Service through the campaign. Im not alone in having my own challenges.

I wasnt anticipating that I would be facing my own health issues.

But, she insists that more reliance on the virtual approach and less upon the face-to-face meetings wont put her behind the 8-ball.

Wilson requires no further treatment, although she is in recovery mode. So she doesnt expect to be banging on a lot of doors, at least in the early stages of the campaign. Instead, she will rely more on social media, phone calls and other alternative methods of getting her message out.

While some might see the timing of the election as bad, Wilson saysthe experience has given her more of a purpose and a goal to push the Liberal agenda.

This is part of what this whole campaign is about, is for the Barrie and Innisfil residents to voice their concerns, she said.

Wilson, 49, is a mom of two grown children who works in probation and parole. From that perspective, she said shes experienced first-hand many of the major issues facing local residents.

She sees thebattle with controlling and stopping the spread of COVID-19 as an ongoing concern. She also points to the economy, affordability and protection of seniors arising from the pandemic along with climate change as important issues.

Locally, she saysthe opioidcrisis and affordable housing need attention.

Although there have been calls locally and nationally to legalize and regulate non-medical use of drugs to reduce the ever-growing number of fatal overdoses, Wilson didnt share her opinion on legalization. Instead, she saystheres a need for supervisedconsumption sites (SCSs) and pointed to new federal funding for substance abuse and addictions proms.

I have seen, first-hand, how this crisis impacts communities and families, she said, referring to her background in probation and parole. I know personally how tragic it is and how we really do need to find ways to support them.

Housing, the lack of it and the need for more reasonably priced places for people to live is also in Wilsons scope. She points to a dire need to increase the local housing supply.

My role is going to continue to be an advocate and a voice for this crisis, she said, pointing to the areas continuing changing landscape.

Wilson said shes not afraid to speak up and advocate for people, ask the uncomfortable questions and keep the government accountable, which she said is an extension of her work.

Wilson moved to the area in 1993 from Toronto and says shes seen incredible changes in the intervening decades. In addition to the ongoing growth, the community has also become more diverse. Issues involving Black, Indigenous and LGBTQ+ are often now in the forefront and Wilson would like to see the discussions continue.

For me that coincides with being a representative in Ottawa. I want to be able to voice these concerns, said Wilson.

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The sports would do well if it could conjure up the same stiff competition that occurred on Thursday for the absolute worst social media post on a day of tragedy.

After 12 U.S. Marines and a Navy corpsman were killed in a terrorist attack in Kabul during the chaotic exit ordered by President Joe Biden, Malcolm Nance, an alleged terrorism expert for MSNBC, told horrified Americans to deal with it.

20 YEARS- FYI there have been terrorist suicide bombers killing civilians nearly DAILY in Afghanistan. This aint new. Its why we are leaving. #DealWithIt, Nance tweeted.

Nance, of course, failed to note that this was the deadliest day in Afghanistan for American troops in a decade and that no American troops have died in action since February 2020.

Among the reactions, Nance generated was a comment by First Amendment lawyer Ari Cohn, who tweeted: There were a million different ways you could have made your point, and yet you chose the one that makes you an ahole.

Conservative columnist Julio Rosas tweeted before the breadth of the attack was fully known, U.S. Marines are among the wounded you despicable sack of st.

Nance apparently deleted the tweet after the blowback ensued.

But then rivaling Nance was Vice.com.

While many vets are being outed as far-right extremists, one branch keeps popping up when it comes to neo-Nazis: the United States Marine Corps, the outlet tweeted above a story entitled Why Are So Many Marines Neo-Nazis?

That, too, garnered a reaction and eventually a deleted tweet.

But as one outraged Twitter user, John Cardillo, fired back, Hey @VICE, the Internet is forever you trash losers. Tweeting this on a day Marines were killed. Delete your account.

Another Twitter user, Lee Williams, added, Do you realize a dozen Marines just made the ultimate sacrifice defending our citizens and our nations freedoms, including your right to publish this filth?

A third, James Lindsay, added, Deleted but never forgotten, @VICE. May the shame of this follow you forever, end your disgusting outlet, and stop its evil mission.

Others came close to being utterly tone-deaf on Thursday.

Social media influencer Mike Cernovich posted a tweet that included screenshots of Nance and Vice, as well as Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston who on Thursday posted about Womens Equality Day and tweeted a photo of female soldiers hairstyles that said, in part, Do you have people that dont look or think like you in the room? Inclusion is listening and valuing those people.

Cernovichs post also included a screencap of a Politico story from Aug. 24, with the headline: White House to media: We want our props on Afghanistan.

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The BC Liberals are calling on the provincial government to step up with financial relief for Interior businesses impacted by the latest pandemic-related restrictions.

On Aug. 20, without advance warning, provincial Dr. Bonnie Henry extended restrictions imposed in the Central Okanagan to the entire Interior Health region, an area that stretches from the B.C.-Alberta border in the east to the Chilcotin in the west, and from just north of Williams Lake in the north to the Canada-U.S. border in the south.

The new health order prohibits or limits indoor group exercise classes.

High-intensity indoor group exercise including aerobics, boot camp, spin classes, hot yoga and martial arts is prohibited.

Low-intensity indoor group exercise including regular yoga and dance classes is limited to a maximum of 10 people per class.

Henry said the health order is in place until at least the end of September and was enacted due to rising COVID-19 case counts in Interior Health.

Kamloops-South Thompson MLA Todd Stone is calling on the NDP government to ante up with financial help for those businesses affected by the health order.

Small businesses continue to be an afterthought for John Horgan and the NDP, Stone, opposition critic for economic recovery and innovation, said in a statement.

If youre going to impose new health measures on small businesses, like those now in the Interior, corresponding grant funding should also be made available to help these businesses that are hanging by a thread. Yet here we are again new restrictions and business closures, yet no support from the NDP.

The call from the BC Liberals has been echoed by the CanadianFederation of Independent Business.

The call for financial help has been accompanied by owners of some Kamloops businesses impacted, including Stride Spin Studio, Oxygen Yoga and Fitness and Tiger Martial Arts,

Oxygen owner Dina McLeod said her Aberdeen Village business has seen revenues dip by $200,000 during the pandemic due to repeated closure orders, noting her debt has risen to $60,000.

Stride Spin Studio owner Kristi Leschuk said her business, downtown at St. Paul Street and Fourth Avenue, has ridden a rollercoaster of financial pain in the past 17 months.

:As a group fitness business, we have been subject to health measures resulting in us having to close and re-open several times despite, no evidence of COVID transmission in our sector in Kamloops, Leschuk said. The government is making it very difficult for businesses like mine to stay afloat and survive the pandemic."

Jeff Viani, who owns Tiger Martial Arts in Sahali Mall, said he is equally impacted.

The lack of notice and clarityon these latest health ordersis appalling, he said.

I emailed Interior Health on Friday (Aug. 20) for clarity and did not hear back until Monday, which gave us hardly any time to prepare. Were still waiting for viaSport to confirm their stance. And the lack of financial support related to these measures is beyond frustrating.

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Retired Cornwall Police Service (CPS) sergeant and former city councillor Denis Moquin is hoping to turn StormontDundasSouth Glengarry red once more.

The SDSG Liberal Party of Canada riding association officially announced on Tuesday it had selected Moquin as its candidate for the upcoming federal election, slated for Sept. 20. Moquin who officially opened his headquarters at 1170 Pitt St. on Wednesday evening spent 25 years with the CPS and sat at the council table for two years, from 2005-06.

Following his tenure with the local police force, he was then head of the Community Agencies of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, which operated under the Eastern Ontario Training Board.

Thats all Ive ever done work with people, help people and get answers for them, he said Thursday. When I was a police officer patrolling the streets in Cornwall, I heard a lot of concerns and I dealt with some many of them. Theres some work to do.

Although Moquin said he isnt what one would call a career politician, that wouldnt stop him from being the type that is going to be available to all residents.

It doesnt matter where they come from, whether theyre Conservatives, Liberals, NDPs or Greens, he said.

Its his belief that his years at the local council table has enabled him to realize what issues the city and SDG face and more precisely, what they need.

While I was there, I really learned a lot, he said. People were able to contact me at any time and I want to be doing the same thing now.

Moquins priorities mirror what the Liberal Party of Canada has been releasing since the start of the campaign.

The priorities that have been set up by Team Trudeau I think are all relevant for our area, he said. Middle class, jobs, housing, health, climate change all of those are all part of the concerns in the riding.

I want to hear what they need and Im going to bring it to Ottawa and thats all there is to it. I dont want Ottawa to come to the riding I want the riding to go to Ottawa.

Moquin also spoke of the plight local small business owners are currently facing.

Ive heard from small businesses and they are finding it very hard to get back to their normal business practice, he said. There are not a lot of people knocking on the door for employment at this time. The middle class, people need to have a better feeling that something good is coming.

Im the person that will represent our riding the best I can, for the next four years. This is my goal and my promise to every resident they will not regret sending me to Ottawa.

He and his party have their work cut out for them. A Liberal has not been elected since the creation of the SDSG electoral district, before the 2014 federal election which also happened to be the first federal election after the creation of the Conservative Party of Canada stopped splitting the right-leaning vote between two parties to the benefit of the Liberals.

The only federal election where Guy Lauzon or incumbent CPC MP Eric Duncan didnt earn over 50 per cent of the ballots cast was Lauzons first campaign in 2014 when he defeated Bob Kilger. Tom Manley (2006), Denis Sabourin (2008), Bernadette Clement (2011 and 2015), and Heather Megill (2019) never came closer than getting 38.5 per cent of the ballots cast which was during Clements second campaign when the Liberals won a majority in Parliament.

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The late great Charles Krauthammer once wrote, To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

I would like to update this axiom to 2021.

Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are killers.

Over the last 18 months, the free thinkers who dared question nonsensical masking or lockdowns were labeled everything from selfish grandma killers to ignorant Neanderthals.

Keep in mind, these morally superior name-callers were the same liberals who cheered and celebrated when then-President Donald Trump contracted the coronavirus.

One of former President Barack Obamas ex-staffers, Zara Rahim, wrote in a since-deleted tweet, Its been against my moral identity to tweet this for the past four years but I hope he dies.

When Sen. Rand Paul was attacked by his Kentucky neighbor in 2017 and left with a punctured lung and six broken ribs, MSNBCs Kasie Hunt relished the headline and said on-air that it was one of my favorite stories.

Recently when a man was killed in a race car crash in Georgia, blue checkmark and failed radio talk show host Tom Leykis wrote, One less Trump supporter!

But sure, Republicans are the venom-filled villains.

In fact, Neanderthal nation is wreaking so much havoc on social media with their disinformation about COVID-19 that Big Brother Biden is getting involved.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki proudly informed reporters last week that the administration is flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation.

Lets hope colluding with Big Tech in order to suppress opposing opinions doesnt interfere with President Bidens grueling ice cream schedule.

On Friday afternoon, a member of the Biden Fan Club asked the president what his message was for platforms like Facebook.

Joe replied, Theyre killing people. The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated, and theyre killing people.

Behind hair smelling and plagiarism, Biden is best known for his hyperbolic rhetoric.

Everything Joe Biden talks about, with the exception of Amtrak, is the worst thing since the Civil War.

This new liberal mantra sparked some hilarity on social media.

Journalist Glenn Greenwald reposted an old tweet from March 2020 in which Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., urged his followers, Stop wearing face masks. #coronavirus.

Greenwald asked the obvious follow-up question: I wonder how many people Eric Swalwell literally killed with this tweet?

The iconoclastic author also reposted an old story from the Daily Kos, an online progressive media hub. The article focused on Vice President Kamala Harris old comments regarding her vaccine hesitancy.

In September of 2020, Harris said on CNN, I would trust the word of public health experts and scientists, but not Donald Trump because theres very little that we can trust that comes out of Donald Trumps mouth.

Does Joe Biden want to condemn Kamala Harris for killing people?

MSNBC host Joy Reid once tweeted that, the fact that Pfizer was not part of Operation Warp Speed and took no Trump government funding makes me feel better about their vaccine. Just speaking for myself, I wouldnt go near anything that Trump or his politicized FDA had anything to do with.

Wow. There is so much disinformation and fear-mongering in that one tweet.

Dont be intimidated by condescending liberals with zero credibility.

Their ever-changing opinions are too inconsistent for debate so they have resorted to branding their political opponents as murderers and killers.

Americans have every right to voice their opinions, no matter how unpopular they may be.

No one should not be made to feel guilty for questioning mandatory vaccinations, lockdowns, mask-wearing or social media censorship.

Standing up against the intolerant majority does not make someone morally bankrupt or evil.

Disagreeing with Jen Psaki and defending freedom does not make you a killer.

It just makes you a conservative.

Listen to Grace Curleys radio show every weekday from noon to 3 p.m. on AM 680 WRKO.

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