I mean, the implied question is probably “*why *is he lying about this particular item?” I personally find it helpful to hunt down his motives for any given lie, as a measure of his trajectory.

Typical of oligopolies: “Encouraging more competition will hurt competition! Just leave us alone together and I PRoMISE we’ll compete so hard!”

Last time he was in power, he unilaterally tore up the original NAFTA agreement. He’s far more unhinged and unrestrained this time.

Including auto parts made in Canada and shipped to the US to be installed on made-in-America cars.

Bad headline. Much too polite.

“Alberta’s Conservatives are blatantly lying about the climate for their own agenda. Again.”

Those stores were never “weed” stores, they were “smoking accessory” stores. You could buy bongs, pipes, incense, herbal tobacco (i.e. legal), and every manner of thing that wasn’t actually pot. Unless you had an in with the staff, then as often as not they would quietly sell you pot.

But they always maintained the pretense of not selling drugs, which a growing chain of mushroom stores did not do.