{"id":6434,"date":"2021-06-27T06:50:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=6434"},"modified":"2021-06-27T06:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:50:20","slug":"peterborough-police-wont-ticket-cast-crew-of-cbc-show-for-handshakes-laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=6434","title":{"rendered":"Peterborough police won&#8217;t ticket cast &#038; crew of CBC show for handshakes, laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Peterborough police won&#8217;t ticket cast &amp; crew of CBC show for handshakes, laughter<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/journalist_david_menzies\">David Menzies<\/a><\/li><li>|<\/li><li>June 25, 2021<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><small><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/rebel_news_plus\">ds<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We recently returned to the lovely little city of Peterborough, Ont., where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/handshakes_laughter_illegal_in_the_peoples_republic_of_peterborough\">local constabulary take a very dim view of any sort of merriment<\/a> in this day and age of COVID-19. You might recall our previous trip to Peterborough in April. We were there to cover an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/bernier_hillier_ticketed_during_tense_rally_in_peterborough_ontario\">anti-lockdown protest<\/a> staged at Confederation Square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shamefully, speakers such as PPC leader Maxime Bernier and Ontario MPP Randy Hillier were issued tickets by the Peterborough cops for\u2026 well, um, that\u2019s a very good question. Last time we checked, freedom of speech and freedom of assembly were still enshrined rights in Canada \u2014 even during a pandemic. Heck, just ask the Peterborough police, whose members <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com\/news\/peterborough-region\/2020\/06\/02\/dozens-gather-for-black-lives-matter-rally-in-downtown-peterborough.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">took a knee<\/a> at this very same square last summer in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, it\u2019s all so very confusing, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And get this: several weeks after the Peterborough anti-lockdown event, I was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/rebel_reporter_charged_for_covering_lockdown_protest_in_peterborough_ontario\">served with a summons<\/a> at my personal residence. Which is odd, given that I was not an organizer nor a speaker nor even an attendee. I was just there as a journalist covering the proceedings, and again, last time I checked, freedom of the press was still a thing in Canada \u2014 even during a pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But things went from odd to downright bat-shite surreal when I was later served disclosure, where the \u201cevidence\u201d of my crimes was duly noted. Which is to say, Staff Sgt. Dan Maclean noted that I had been spotted \u201cshaking hands\u201d and \u2014 wait for it \u2014 \u201claughing\u201d on several occasions. Heck, Staff Sgt. Maclean even provided photographic evidence of my hand-shaking and laughing crimes against humanity. He even submitted my driving abstract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know, folks, that back in 1981 I was nabbed for doing 60 km\/h in a 50 km\/h zone? Oh, the humanity!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any event, we thought we would drop by to check out the filming of a <em>Murdoch Mysteries<\/em> episode in Peterborough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alas, given that this is a <em>CBC<\/em> show, I\u2019ve never seen a single episode, but I\u2019m told that it takes place in Toronto in the 1890s. Ah, the 1890s! A time when shops were actually open in good ol\u2019 Hogtown and a patron could enter such shops without having to don a face-diaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, we have it on good authority that the script called for some of the actors to actually shake hands. And laugh. And we certainly saw outbursts of laughter by the crew members on site \u2014 along with a few raised middle fingers aimed at me and my cameraman, Syd. All of which is very odd, given that <em>Murdoch Mysteries<\/em> is a <em>CBC<\/em> production, which means Syd and I and millions of other Canadians are involuntarily funding this show via our tax dollars. So, when you think of it, we are actually stakeholders, not interlopers. But I digress\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any event, we felt it was our civic duty to reimagine ourselves as a couple of COVID-Karens and rat out this production to the cops. I mean, hand-shaking? Laughing? That\u2019s super-spreader stuff according to the Peterborough Police Service, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But alas, the Peterborough cops would not come to the set to issue tickets or even investigate. Gee, maybe they\u2019re fans of <em>Murdoch Mysteries<\/em>? It is a show about law enforcement, after all&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bottom line: yet again, when it comes to COVID crimes, it would appear that it is one law for thee, one law for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Golly, just where is Detective William Murdoch of the Toronto Constabulary when you really need him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peterborough police won&#8217;t ticket cast &amp; crew of CBC show for handshakes, laughter By David Menzies | June 25, 2021 ds We recently returned to the lovely little city of Peterborough, Ont., where the local constabulary take a very dim &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=6434\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2421,1823,3587,3586,2299,3588],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6435,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions\/6435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}