Richard Petko

Single game tickets are ON SALE! 🎟️🏀 Starting at just $26/ticket, be there for every big moment at the Meridian Centre this season. Purchase tickets🔗: bit.ly/4voZpuM #StillHungry | #PullUp

Same thing in Canada with the 90 billion price tag for 1000 km of HSR. China and Spain would build it for 9 Billion. Canada could be the greatest nation, too bad our government and bureaucrats hold us back

Over the past month, owners @PetkoRichard and Michael Skrtich and President Michelle Biskup met with Niagara mayors to discuss strengthening ties and supporting the region, while continuing to grow as Niagara’s team, on and off the court! #StillHungry |#PullUp

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@CurlingCanada Any chance people who have tickets for today's 2pm session can get some credit to go to one of the remaining draws? It is currently impossible to get to the arena with the roads a disaster

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1907: Electric lights replace candles. Procter & Gamble's candle business collapses. They pivot to soap but animal fats are expensive. They need cheaper alternatives. Enter cottonseed oil. Cotton seeds contain oil, but it's toxic to humans - gossypol, a natural pesticide. The seeds are agricultural waste, fed to cattle in small amounts or discarded. But chemically extract the oil, heat it to extreme temperatures, hydrogenate it with pressurized hydrogen gas, and you get solid white fat that looks like lard but costs pennies. They patent it in 1907, launch Crisco in 1911. Crystallized cottonseed oil. Industrial waste transformed into soap substitute. Except they don't market it as soap. They market it as food. Problem: nobody wants to eat textile manufacturing waste processed with industrial chemicals. Your grandmother cooks with lard and tallow like humans have for thousands of years. Solution: Convince America that animal fats are killing them. Procter & Gamble spends millions on marketing. Cookbooks, radio shows, free samples. They target Jewish communities advertising Crisco as kosher - "neither meat nor dairy!" But the genius move: 1948. The American Heart Association has $1,700 in their budget. Procter & Gamble donates $1.7 million. Suddenly the AHA has funding and influence. And suddenly they're very interested in dietary causes of heart disease. 1961: The AHA issues first dietary guidelines. Avoid saturated fat from animals. Replace with vegetable oils. Recommended oils: Crisco, Wesson, and other seed oils. Who benefits: Procter & Gamble. Who funded the AHA: Procter & Gamble. The conflict is blatant. Nobody cares. Never mind that humans ate animal fats for millions of years without epidemic heart disease. Never mind that seed oils oxidize rapidly and integrate into cell membranes creating inflammation for years. Industrial cottonseed waste is now "heart healthy" and butter is "artery-clogging poison." 1980s: Trans fats are discovered to be catastrophically unhealthy. They directly cause heart disease. Procter & Gamble's response: Quietly reformulate, keep selling seed oils, never acknowledge their "heart healthy" product spent 70 years actively causing disease. No apologies. No compensation. Just reformulate and continue. Modern research shows seed oils cause oxidative stress, inflammatory cascades, mitochondrial dysfunction, increased cancer risk, and neurodegenerative disease. Your body requires exactly zero grams. They didn't exist in human diets until 1911. But Procter & Gamble needed to sell soap alternatives and accidentally created the largest dietary change in human history. We traded animal fats that built civilizations for factory waste that causes disease. The soap company won.

Ancient Middle East, roughly 1000 BCE. Multiple religions suddenly develop prohibitions against pork. Judaism, Islam, later various Christian sects. The explanation given is hygiene. Pork carries trichinosis. It's "unclean." But here's the interesting part: Cattle and sheep carry diseases too. Anthrax, brucellosis, various parasites. Yet beef and lamb are deemed clean and acceptable. The real reason for pork prohibition is economic and political. Pigs are democratic animals. They're easy to raise. Any peasant family can keep a pig, feed it scraps, and have meat for winter. Pigs don't require large grazing lands. They convert waste into protein efficiently. Cattle and sheep, however, require pasture. Land. Lots of it. Land that must be controlled, owned, managed. Land that concentrates in the hands of those wealthy enough to hold it. In ancient societies, if everyone can raise pigs, everyone has access to meat. Power disperses. But if meat requires cattle grazing on large estates, meat access becomes controllable. The priests and rulers who established dietary laws weren't idiots. They understood that pork democratized protein access. A peasant with a pig was independent. A peasant dependent on beef from landlord's cattle was controlled. The "unclean" designation wasn't about parasites. It was about power. This pattern repeats through history. Medieval European nobility consumed pork freely while peasants were restricted. Victorian England saw pork associated with lower classes while beef signified wealth and status. Modern industrial agriculture has inverted some of this. Factory-farmed pork became cheap commodity meat. But the cultural associations remain. Beef is prestigious. Pork is common. The interesting thing is pork is nutritionally excellent. High in fat, rich in B vitamins, contains all essential amino acids. It's particularly high in thiamine, crucial for metabolism. But it was shamed, restricted, and prohibited not because it was inferior, but because it was too accessible. When everyone can access protein, hierarchies flatten. The elites have always understood this. That's why pork was made "unclean" while beef and lamb were sanctified. Control the meat supply, control the population. If that meat supply is too easy to produce independently, demonize it.

Did you know that one of the first coins in the world had a bee symbol on them? Did you know that there are live enzymes in honey? Did you know that in contact with metal spoon these enzymes die? The best way to eat honey is with wooden spoon, if you can't find one, use plastic. Did you know that honey contains a substance that helps your brain work better? Did you know that honey is one of the rare foods on earth that alone can sustain human life? Did you know that bees saved people in Africa from starvation? One spoon of honey is enough to sustain human life for 24 hours? Did you know that propolis that bees produce is one of the most powerful natural ANTIBIOTICS? Did you know that honey has no expiration date? Did you know that the bodies of the great emperors of the world were buried in golden coffins and then covered with honey to prevent putrefaction? Did you know that the term "HONEY MOON" comes from the fact that newlyweds consumed honey for fertility after the wedding? Did you know that a bee lives less than 40 days, visits at least 1000 flowers and produces less than a teaspoon of honey, but for her it is a lifetime. Thank you, BEES! Make sure to share this post guys, I am sure many people will love to know this information Much love, X

Yes! Idiotic eco nut is out of cabinet. Do the honorable thing and resign your Parliamemtary seat. No big fan of the Liberals but if they really are backing down from their adherence to climate change nonsense then maybe Canada has a hope for prosperity thestar.com/steven-guilbea…

Two champions, the @RiverLions and a long time supporter @globalpharmacy youtu.be/xtFFqhbfHVg?si…

Come and see the journey of a champion @elonmusk youtube.com/watch?v=VhZLQ3…

The @CEBLeague Championship Trophy is set to go on tour across the Niagara Region and we want YOU to be part of it! Let us know where you want to see the trophy! Drop a comment, tag a local business below👇 Let’s spread the championship pride! #RunItBack | #PullUp

We’re proud to partner with Kia of St Catharines once again this season! Thanks for always taking care of the team and helping us move in style. #RunItBack | #PullUp

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Back by popular demand, we’re offering a limited number of courtside and club level seats to the general public for our School Day Game tomorrow! 🤩👏 Call our office at 289-273-5905 to reserve your spot for this thrilling event! #RunItBack | #PullUp

Dammit @justinbieber come spend your summers in Stratford and Niagara Region and chill with us at a @RiverLions game. We'd love to have you as I know your a huge basketball fan and the ultimate baller

Don't ever count out the @RiverLions we got a short high intensity season for his creaky body to enjoy.

@rmawhood @RiverLions We even spelled your last name correctly. It's been a fantastic 10 years

Thank you to the entire @RiverLions organization! Michelle Biskup, Vic Raso, Richard Petko, Michael Skrtich and co. #Humbled #Grateful #ChampionshipCalibre

To everyone who’s been part of the Niagara River Lions over the past 10 years — volunteers, interns, staff — THANK YOU! We invite you to join us on Ring Night, Friday June 13 with two complimentary tickets. 🎉 DM us to learn more and join the celebrations! #RunItBack | #PullUp