The reason of “We hate Trudeau and so should you”
Also “Please keep sending us money, you stupid rubes.”
Actually I think they were just engaging in legitimate political discourse.
It’s hard to tell from the jumble of that article, but I didn’t read it as the CEO trying to give reasons at all. I don’t think he was defending the protest in any way.
It states that the man “also reportedly received cuts and bruises on his arms and hands, shoulder and knee.”
Kinda odd, though, that not only is there no video, but also nothing about it on youtube, which should probably hint at a possible, um, nothingburger situation? Without video, we can just as likely conclude that he in fact was not roughly handled (or was handled perfectly commensurate to his level of resistance) as he had if he was overly accosted.
The only hint as to how it went down, AFAIC, is this sanctimonius condemnation from the filmer:
Indeed - how dare a person of mature years be arrested! I always thought they were supposed to be immune to that kind of unbridled terror.
And those other sanctimonious comments shouldn’t even been printed. News sources, now, have to learn to start identifying obvious-as-fuck concern trolling and curbstomp it immediately instead of trying to accommodate it for “balance”. 
The old man was ultimately charged with an $11 fine and let go.
LET’S BURN DOWN THE POLICE STATION!!! 
Wait. That’s $11 CDN, no ?
I think we have to let this one go 
Yeah, no idea what the CEO’s politics might be, but I’m pretty sure he’d much rather the truckers were, you know… trucking, rather than protesting.
That’s racist persecution of a White honky!
Who was fined $11 in Smaller Dollars? A white honky!
And who did the fining? A white honky!
And who’s coaching your favorite hockey team? A white honky!
And who’s portrayed as a bumbling dad in commercials? A white honky!
Connect the dots, people! And have a nice big glass of skim milk with your Cream of Mushroom Soup Casserole while you watch curling on TV… even when it’s not the Olympics any more!
Some stupid mf paid more than 4 million for a chunk of industrial diamond.
But it’s a Space Diamond.
So it will either take over his mind and start the Conquest of Earth, or it will warp the new owner towards their most base desires. Maybe both.
I’m voting for both.
Well, in a sense it is in space. Along with all the other diamonds. And everything else.
If you scroll down three pics in the Forbes link, it looks like there’s all this granular stuff all over it, and was hoping there was a comments section where I’d suggest that it be renamed “The Kinda Shitty-Looking Diamond (you assholes!)”.
It is granular. And completely opaque, making faceting it pretty silly.
I can’t wait to buy the NFT photo of the diamond!
And then they destroy the diamond, and the NFT is all there is, making it even more (imaginarily) valuable.
I’d pay $i4.3million for that!
Museum guard “corrects” paintings
During a visit to the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg in December, two visitors spotted eyes drawn in ballpoint pen on Anna Leporskaya’s work Three Figures.
The avant-garde painting features three abstract, and usually eyeless, figures.
The security guard has since been fired and the police have opened a criminal investigation.