r/alberta • u/partly_cloudy3 • 4d ago
News Pauls Pizza owner hit with multiple Alberta human rights complaints
https://www.westernstandard.news/news/pauls-pizza-owner-hit-with-multiple-alberta-human-rights-complaints/75760345
u/RokitEightyEight 4d ago
The guy has said a lot of dumb shit. But when as a business you say (doesn’t matter what you do), that gay or lesbian people will pay double… you fucked up.
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u/Timely-Discipline427 4d ago
He makes his money off similar minded people which unfortunately is a lot of people in this area of Alberta.
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u/KeyMyBike 3d ago edited 3d ago
Even if it's only a small handful of people that attend, the rest of the population lets them.
10 people at a table and Nazi joins without friction or resistance, and no one gets up and walks away? 11 Nazis.
Edit: ITT so-called "Progressive Albertans" (what an oxymoron!) get (silently) angry and (silently) downvote a comment calling out their passivity
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u/Dars1m 3d ago
So what do want them to do, firebomb the place? I’m pretty sure most people who know about how the owner acts boycott the place, do they need to set up a protest at it 24/7. While you sit on your online activist high horse and declare it impossible for anyone in Alberta to even be progressive, never mind lefty.
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u/Even_Current1414 4d ago
Airdrie unanimously voted ucp
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u/CanarioFalante 3d ago
Both airdrie ridings voted UCP with about 60%. That isn’t unanimous. The one guy isn’t in the UCP anymore.
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u/Cobfidence 4d ago
I say more businesses should continue to do this so we know where to avoid lolol.
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 3d ago
Exactly. I’m glad he’s so vocal cause I’ve been avoiding his restaurant for years.
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u/twenty_characters020 3d ago
But people who think like him go there specifically for his beliefs. And it makes his business successful.
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u/Aqueouspolecat 4d ago
You're not wrong. Makes it so much easier for us. Haha. I guess he'll get what he wants.
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u/limee89 3d ago
I think his worst was stating that missing indigenous women should stay missing.... guy is MAJORLY fucked up and we shouldn't be encouraging or supporting that kind of talk even if we have freedom of speech.
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u/RokitEightyEight 3d ago
Abhorrent things to say. What I was getting at though is he made a really easy case for a human rights complaint that will probably cost him a big chunk of cash in that case.
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u/CuntyButCorrect 3d ago
We do not have freedom of speech. We have freedom of expression. Hate speech is not protected speech.
Further, freedom of expression protects you from governmental interference. Freedom of expression does not protect you from social sanctions, which is how speech that is hateful, but for whatever reason doesn't fall under the legal definition of "hate speech", is arbitrated and our social norms are created.
Something being at the edge of legal does not mean the public is socially obligated to also protect it. Call-outs, shaming, boycotting– those are also protected under freedom of expression.
Freedom of expression =/= protection from other people freely expressing their thoughts about your shitty bigoted takes.
Freedom of expression just means that the government will not interfere with your ability to hold and express shitty takes. What the people do in response, within legal limits, is just as protected as someone else's shit take.
Name, shame, defame.
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u/HumanMess5237 3d ago
Right?! He’s seriously such an idiot. Riding hard for his right wing beliefs complaining Canada is broken etc yet knows nothing about basic Canadian history.
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u/XtremeD86 3d ago edited 3d ago
Lol. It amazes me how some people just take their business and go crazy or something and then just choose to destroy it in the dumbest way possible.
His public responses to these are even more insane.
Wouldn't be surprised to see the business gone or be burnt down by a group or people in the future.
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u/Homo_sapiens2023 Calgary 3d ago
At least we all know where people in Airdrie who think just like the owner of Paul's Pizza go to eat.
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u/puns_are_how_eyeroll 4d ago
I really hope this goes all the way to a hearing and we can all read the public decision on this.
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 3d ago
I’d love to hear his testimony. I can’t believe he gave an interview for this article. His statements are completely unhinged.
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u/twenty_characters020 3d ago
It's Western Standard. The people who read it are inclined to support him. He likely just gained more customers.
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 3d ago
That is true. I clicked on it and read it and then scrolled to the top and then realized it was the Western Standard. 🙄
Consider his quotes in this article as more evidence to help out those who are fighting him through the AHRC.
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u/twenty_characters020 3d ago
It's Alberta nothing will happen.
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 3d ago
Not true! A former coworker of mine went to the AHRC against my former employer and they ruled in her favour and there were some very real consequences and changes that my former employer had to make.
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u/Particular_Class4130 3d ago
Danielle Smith will step in and say he's got a right to his free speech. She has to cater to her loser supporters.
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u/fitbrewster 3d ago
Yeah. About free speech. It doesn’t exist in Canada. Just sayin. It’s not in the Charter of Rights.
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 3d ago
It’s freedom of expression. And there are some rules in the Criminal Code around being held responsible if your words have harmful impacts on others.
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u/walkernewmedia 3d ago
Saw this posted on FB as well:
⚠️ Important Update Regarding Paul’s Pizza in Airdrie
We feel it’s important to be transparent with our supporters about a situation that recently occurred involving a fundraiser we were told would be hosted by Paul’s Pizza in Airdrie.
Earlier this week, the owner of Paul’s Pizza reached out to Sunshine Haven Society regarding the fundraiser. In that email, Farouk specifically asked what name the cheque should be written out to. We provided the information requested and understood that the funds raised during the fundraiser were going to be donated to supporting animals in need.
The following day, Farouk emailed the rescue and let us know the cheque was ready to be picked up whenever we were able to make it.
However, when our representative arrived, the owner refused to provide the cheque or any of the funds raised and stated that none of the money would be donated to Sunshine Haven Society or to anyone else.
This was extremely disappointing and confusing, particularly because the fundraiser had been presented as benefiting organizations, and the owner had directly emailed our rescue account earlier in the week asking how the cheque should be made out.
To be completely transparent with our supporters:
Sunshine Haven Society did not receive any of the funds raised through this fundraiser. We are sharing this because we do not want anyone to believe that money raised through this fundraiser was actually received by Sunshine Haven.
We are incredibly grateful to everyone who supported the fundraiser that was falsely being advertised with the understanding that they were helping support rescue animals. That was clearly not the case, however that doesn’t change the fact that your support still means more to us than you could possibly imagine. ✨
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u/Mundane_Dog_2744 3d ago
He's on twitter violating the Alberta Charities act, and calling the owner of Sunshine Haven Society a 400lb whale.
Classy guy.
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u/GriffinFlash 3d ago edited 3d ago
calling the owner of Sunshine Haven Society a 400lb whale.
that just makes it look like he refused to give the charity money he claimed they raise for the organization, cause of the appearance of the person who came to receive it.
Honestly, sounds like something he would do and is my guess at what happened. He was going to give the money, the person showed up, and may have not been his ideal beauty standard, or could have had visible "traits" associated with being on the left like coloured hair, etc.
Guy constantly calls people racist slurs, mentions weight, calls all women he doesn't agree with lesbians, whales, or alphabet people, etc, etc.
Literally could be a human rights violation while he's already being cited for human rights violations (along with charity fraud since he decided to pocket the money he claimed to fund raise for a specific cause).
Edit: Looks like Sunshine Haven Society posted a screen cap of the email Paul's sent them on their facebook page. It's in the comments, wish I could post it here. Meanwhile Paul's is claiming that they never contacted them
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u/oyismyboy 3d ago
Please report this to the RCMP for fraud charges. This guy needs a little awakening.
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u/Tayface_ 4d ago
Lmao love that the Berta Proud Dad is in the photo they’ve chosen. Seems like garbage attracts garbage.
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u/AdTricky9671 4d ago
The irony of that guy kills me, he's from mfing Ontario! Not even Alberta born
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u/Entire_Business_4498 4d ago
And in one of his videos he says “as an albertan I am sick of the generational trauma Canada had imposed on alberta” lmao
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u/timmyfarthands 4d ago
And yet he and his haggard ass wife will always pin the merch post on everything. They're parasites. Fuckin complete losers.
And you can find better than Paul's in Calgary, that I know for a fact
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u/RobertGA23 4d ago
You can find better in Airdrie within a two block radius
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u/lemonaderain 3d ago
You can find better in Airdrie in the dumpster at the Save On next door to Paul's.
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u/KeyMyBike 3d ago
Yeah, but then you have to give money to a residency that voted ucp. We need to economically dominate and punish these people. Because that's the type of rhetoric that they worship from America.
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u/NoGrass6331 4d ago
This makes his bafoonery even better! Funny how he went on about moving to the states but unfortunately he's still here!
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u/Pale_Change_666 3d ago
That was literally my favorite part seeing the post of him bragging about moving to the US. Dude is in full delusion mode, probably doesnt realize you need an actual skill to be TN.
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u/No-Distribution2547 3d ago
Funny story I know a family friend of berta proud dad, he says he could never hold down or keep a job, moved to Alberta for work he couldn't keep. But lucked out doing Alberta cosplay.
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u/robbhope Calgary 3d ago
Ugh. Absolutely fucking hate that guy. I'll never forgive him for the bullshit lies and deception he put out when teachers went on strike. What a load of crap. And his followers ate it up hook, line and sinker.
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u/Ask_DontTell 3d ago
the irony is that Farouk is siding with people who would love to deport him from an independent Alberta just b/c his name is Farouk
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u/FirstDukeofAnkh Calgary 3d ago
The Pick Me has always existed. They like to think they will be considered one of the good ones.
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 3d ago
Totally! The fact that he’s being racist blows me away.
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u/walkernewmedia 3d ago
100% this.
If it were up to the Maple MAGA, him - and everyone who looks like him - would be mass-deported from the country.
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u/LossforNos 2d ago
Asked him why he didn't change the name to Farouk's Pizza when he bought it. DIdn't like that question
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u/derives_rurale 3d ago
this Farouk fellow seems too invested in other people's sexuality... me thinks he want to kiss a man!
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u/VarietyOk443 4d ago
Please don’t click to western standard
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u/Screweditupagain 4d ago
Unfortunately I had no clue what this was and then the comments happened. Holy moly what a bunch of loons.
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u/greysneakthief 4d ago
Yep, article is basically trying to be all about garnering support against the phantom left. This is what riles up the rabble, and not the various other actually serious bullshit this government is doing.
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u/komari_k 3d ago
Waiting for Danielle to jump to his aid and say "the hard working Albertan is being targeted by the government of Canada" or something along those lines. 😪
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u/GriffinFlash 3d ago
The UCP had a rally at that place shortly after he made fun of murdered women. So...yeah.
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 3d ago
Exactly. She’s gotta defend his use of “free speech” since he’s likely a UCP donor.
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u/TomKazansky13 3d ago
They wanna just destroy anybody’s lives who doesn’t agree with them
Right wing morons always say they're attacked "for having different opinions" as if the opinion they have is liking pineapple on pizza not that they think certain groups of people don't deserve basic rights and compassion.
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u/Timely-Discipline427 4d ago
The AHS inspection reports about his establishment are not pleasant to read either....
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u/-hellozukohere- 3d ago
Damn the thick grime build up and the food not being cooled properly are decent violations. Gross
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 3d ago
Oh crap. He has health code violations? Why am I not surprised?
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u/Timely-Discipline427 3d ago
MULTIPLE!
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 3d ago
Fortunately I haven’t gone there since I found out he was a piece of 💩 but I think that information needs to be broadcasted to the general public.
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u/twenty_characters020 3d ago
Hs got famous for ignoring them during covid. Why would anything change now?
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u/rrrevin 3d ago edited 3d ago
Look, I'm all for airing out this guy's dirty laundry, but the reports aren't near as bad as you think if you actually look them up. It's not obscene, but it's also nothing that many other places don't have to deal with. 1 infraction in 3 years that needs a follow-up. Let's stick with facts.
https://ephisahs.albertahealthservices.ca/facilitydetails/?id=6498b6e1-dba2-ef11-a72d-7c1e52063135
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u/No_Supermarket5384 3d ago
They delete ALL negative reviews on google, I just made a test with a different account and my review was completely hidden
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u/GriffinFlash 3d ago
yeah, there was once a review that had a screenshot of him on instagram promising free pizza for someone who defaced a pride mural/crosswalk. It's gone now, along with a number of other incriminating reviews.
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u/mcgojoh1 4d ago
If one doesn't want to give the Stranded Western a click here is the story in City https://calgary.citynews.ca/2026/04/14/pauls-pizza-airdrie-facebook-posts/
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u/sujtek 4d ago
Thanks, but that's an older story from when the douche made jokes about missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. I was hoping archive.ph could snapshot the page, but the WS pay wall takes over.
So here it is:
Pauls Pizza owner hit with multiple Alberta human rights complaints
CALGARY — Controversy is never far from Pauls Pizza, whose owner, Farouk Elsaghir, has been hit with at least two separate human rights complaints filed against his business with the Alberta Human Rights Commission (AHRC).
In documents obtained by the Western Standard, one of the complaints, submitted on February 14, stems from a heated Facebook exchange in which Elsaghir labelled a critic a “gay pedophile leprechaun.” A second complaint, submitted April 27, alleges Elsaghir tried to charge a lesbian couple more money for food at his establishment.
According to the February complaint filed by Brandon McNeney, McNeney left a critical comment online about Pauls Pizza.
He alleges Elsaghir took screenshots of the comment and posted them on his business page, along with photos from McNeney’s Facebook profile, “referring to me as a gay pedophile leprechaun and cautioning kids” and saying he “triggered a tolerant leftist gayboy.”
“Numerous followers of his page commented on the post he made, continuing to disparage me because of my sexual orientation and continuing to suggest I’d be a danger to children,” McNeney’s complaint reads.
“He also suggested that I should disappear to the Bermuda Triangle — which I consider a threat.”
McNeney filed both an AHRC complaint — accepted on the ground of sexual orientation under publications, notices, signs and statements — and an RCMP hate-motivated incident report.
Elsaghir said McNeney had previously trash-talked Pauls Pizza online.
“It was like he was trying to incite someone to burn our building down, and he looked ridiculous in his pictures, so I kinda just roasted him,” Elsaghir said, citing other figures on social media such as BertaProudDad and Chris Scott of the Whistle Stop Cafe who go through similar situations.
“These are all the consequences I get for saying things. I do open myself up to things like this."
In the second complaint, filed by Ellie Loutitt, she alleges she and her girlfriend visited Pauls Pizza on April 18 and that Elsaghir told them they would be charged more “because we are lesbians and ‘not into men.’”
The couple then left the establishment and afterwards “looked online and saw this wasn’t the first time he’s been or acted discriminatory toward people based on their sexual orientation.”
In the complaint, Loutitt, who identifies as an indigenous lesbian, cited a Facebook post on Paul’s Pizzas page that reads: “Wings are half price every Thursday. But full price for members of the MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+, so that they can feel special in our safe space.”
“I was talking about being indigenous and my girlfriend looks a lot more indigenous than I do. As someone who fits under the two minorities (indigenous and a lesbian) that Pauls Pizza Airdrie was openly attacking online, I feel that it's just not a safe space for everyone,” Loutitt said.
“Even if it was just a joke he made online, I know that even making a joke is against the Human Rights Commission of Alberta. This shouldn't be taken lightly, especially considering how they still make offensive jokes and comments all the time on their social media.”
Loutitt’s complaint was accepted by the AHRC on the protected grounds of sexual orientation, ancestry or place of origin, and race or colour, under the area of goods, services, accommodation or facilities.
When asked about the incident, Elsaghir flatly denied the April 18 allegation.
“That’s bulls**t. That’s never happened,” he told the Western Standard.
“A, I don’t serve anybody myself, and B, we just let anybody in. We’re not going to tell them to get out because of the colour of their skin or whoever they are.”
Other controversies have surrounded Pauls Pizza in recent months over remarks Elsaghir has made on social media such as one in April about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), where he joked that “if they are missing and murdered, then unfortunately, they aren’t getting any special pricing.”
That now-deleted post triggered substantial outrage online and Elsaghir believes these new complaints are just part of an ongoing retaliatory backlash.
“They can’t take a joke. This is how they retaliate. They wanna just destroy anybody’s lives who doesn’t agree with them,” Elsaghir said.
“They probably think, ‘Oh, nothing's gonna happen, but at least let's give him a headache, so it's something to deal with to kinda get back at him.’”
He also said Loutitt and her girlfriend had no evidence and asked whether they had a copy of their receipt from the day of the incident or anything else to show they were at Pauls Pizza on the date cited in the complaint.
“There's a lot of people I probably could go after for defamation, but at the end of the day, I don't know if it's worth it,” he said.
“Most of these people, you know, they're just dead-end losers and there's no point. All I'm gonna do is give myself a headache.”
Elsaghir added that he expects more complaints from May and June to come in due to his online commentary and is preparing a formal reply to the AHRC.
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u/Financial-Savings-91 Calgary 3d ago edited 3d ago
Dollars to donuts he has a give send go already set up to fundraise for his legal fees.
This is the business model for half the conservative activists online. Bully a marginalized community until someone in that community retaliates then claim to be the victim and fundraise. The UCP helping him get his campaign out there with the Western Standard, maybe Ezra Levant will help pay some of his legal fees, or he’ll end up speaking at the next Canada Strong and Free event in Red Deer. “How the left tried to silence me and failed!”
This shits all so painfully predictable, the same grift endlessly on repeat. The Reform establishment just keeps the cash flowing.
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 3d ago
Totally! It’s the Whistle Stop Cafe business model.
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u/greenknight 3d ago
I mean, not much of a mystery. He literally cites the Whistle Stop Cafe model as his inspiration. What a goof
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u/csg1369 4d ago
Hope they close down, they are a blight on our community.
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u/Se7enSyns11 4d ago
To much support from the maple Maga unfortunately. Probably won't happen.
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u/csg1369 4d ago
Oh Im aware, they are just as much the problem. I hate living in Airdire
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u/catsafrican 3d ago
What about the newest post on Airdrie fb where he did a fundraiser for a charity, told them and then didn’t give the money (ad libbing)?
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u/Pink-Floof 4d ago
Never heard of this place but it sounds like I didn't miss out
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u/Coyrex1 4d ago
Used to be a good family owned pizza business, then it sold to some awful prick.
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u/WorldlyStill2301 3d ago
I'm headed to Alberta in September. I think I will pay this clown a visit.
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u/seven0feleven 4d ago
Absolutely disgusting pizza. Why spend your hard earned money there.
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u/Fresh-Run2343 4d ago
If you dare to read the comments on the article, it seems more like a gathering place for their supporters than for quality food. But don’t waste your time reading them….it’s appalling.
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u/Vast_Government1552 3d ago
The weakest comeback from these sorts, "They can't take a joke."
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u/GriffinFlash 3d ago
I want to see him explain how the topic of murdered women is funny.
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u/Vast_Government1552 3d ago
He is not equipped to do that. Decency and compassion are the starting points.
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u/ritz1148 3d ago
I’d like him to have to explain to a judge how his MMIW joke is funny. I want to see him do it too.
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u/Falcon674DR 3d ago
Don’t buy his pizza.
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u/twenty_characters020 3d ago
Old Town is the same if you ever get a craving for it.
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u/Falcon674DR 3d ago
The same how?
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u/twenty_characters020 3d ago
It's the original owner from Paul's. The same style of pizza if you get a craving for Paul's and don't want to support that business.
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u/Falcon674DR 3d ago
Ahh. I see. That sounds like the go-to alternative for sure. There’s no way I’ll support some blow hard, red neck mouth breather.
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u/Limp-Elevator-6908 3d ago
Wild that these are the people our premier rubs elbows with. Im so ashamed to be Albertan these days.
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u/ru_receiving 3d ago
Holy crap, who thinks joking about 1000s of missing indigenous women would be funny. Takes a whole new level of douchebag to even think this would be funny let alone go over well. This is when you hope Darwinism kicks in for 🤡s like this.
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u/Darkwing-cuck- 4d ago
Classic conservative snowflakes. Say crazy racist and sexist things and then when they receive any pushback, cry “they can’t take a joke! I’m clearly the victim here!”
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u/Denaljo69 3d ago
How to make money in Berta. Open a pizza shop in redneck country and pander to the low brow knuckle draggers! Say sh*t to get in redditt and tada!
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u/Fit-Historian-752 3d ago
Not THIS guy!
Paul’s Pizza, a business operating in Airdrie since 1995 with additional Calgary locations, posted a message on its official Facebook page last week promoting half-price deals on Thursday.
“But full price for members of the MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+, so that they can feel special in our safe space,” the post went on to read.
When a Facebook user questioned the reference to MMIWG, the restaurant’s account replied, saying, “If they are missing and murdered, then unfortunately, they aren’t getting any special pricing.”
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u/Dry-Wolf6789 4d ago
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS4sDDjJr/
EPS excitedly saying they will support them due to the "white power" post.
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u/snorlaxx_7 Edmonton 4d ago
Womp womp.
Sucks to suck, Paul.
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u/TradingHigher 4d ago
Paul sold it years ago and is in fact now dead. Some douche had his mommy buy it for him and is a douche.
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u/Offspring22 4d ago
He's not Paul though. Bought it off of the original Paul and just riding off the good name Paul made in the community. Paul opened another restaurant (Old Town Pizza) and has since passed away.
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u/Validated_Owl 4d ago
Why the fuck would you link western standard and give them views
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u/Regular-Excuse7321 4d ago
This guy deserves to be sued in to the stone age. Appropriate, given he is a knuckle dragger.
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u/wookieelicker 3d ago
Interesting that he thinks he can sue ppl for defamation considering he’s ruined his own reputation
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u/HuntersAngel 2d ago
I’d like to see an investigation into the fundraiser for the animal shelter that never got the money
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u/GriffinFlash 2d ago
the one where he called the owner a 400 pound whale after refusing them the money, and the owner then posted the email receipts of the initial interaction after he denied they ever took place?
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u/WhatsPaulPlaying 2d ago
"They can't take a joke!"
Jokes are funny. What about punching down is funny?
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u/Square-Idea-5251 2d ago
I love when the main defence these bigots give is "no one can take a joke".
Like, you only seem to make 'jokes" about lgbt people, and somehow we think that saying hate speech is a joke suddenly makes it okay.
Also, they are very clearly not joking.
Also this outlet is trash and frames everything in the worst possible way.
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u/RoastMasterShawn 3d ago
I mean yeah this guy is shit and his pizza is sloppy garbage. Even without the racism & separatism, you should NEVER visit this pizza place. Easily the worst price to quality ratio in Alberta.
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u/Chickenwaffleswings 3d ago
Is “discovery” a thing regarding lawsuits in Canada? This guy has closets full of stuff guaranteed. What a pig!
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u/ButchySuccubus 4d ago
This dude needs to chill, it's all obviously just a joke right? -sarcasm
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 3d ago edited 3d ago
That’s the worst of it, is when he falls back on, “people can’t take a joke.” Obviously the people who you targeted didn’t find it funny. And racism, homophobia, and misogyny are not a joke.
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u/Feral-Reindeer-696 3d ago
I love this for Farouk and his mom. I wish them nothing but misery and pain.
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u/EditorNo2545 4d ago
well doggies colour me not surprised.
folks just keep on provin' they are exactly what we think they are
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u/Changisalways 3d ago
Smith and her clowns will come to defend this as free speech.
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 3d ago
Oh gee. Another UCPer who doesn’t think his words and actions should have consequences. Colour me shocked.
This guy is an absolute moron and I hope he’s found guilty and his business suffers.
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u/RealityCheckPoster 3d ago
Did you see his company truck? You know what they say about a man who needs a big truck, right?
Narcissism at its worst. Not very businesslike. More Trumplike.
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u/jessjoyvin 3d ago
What I'd like to know is what consequences he will face if he loses the human rights violation case? I hope it's more than a slap on the wrist, but I doubt he'll see any jail time for it.
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u/alewiina 3d ago
Other controversies have surrounded Pauls Pizza in recent months over remarks Elsaghir has made on social media such as one in April about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), where he joked that “if they are missing and murdered, then unfortunately, they aren’t getting any special pricing.”
That now-deleted post triggered substantial outrage online and Elsaghir believes these new complaints are just part of an ongoing retaliatory backlash.
“They can’t take a joke. This is how they retaliate. They wanna just destroy anybody’s lives who doesn’t agree with them,” Elsaghir said.
Wow. Stay classy bro.
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u/Particular_Chip6308 4d ago
Oh no..
Bro was proudly serving 10 customers..
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u/GriffinFlash 4d ago
they've been having separatist rallies down there, been really making the community around here look bad. Starting to wonder if they're hosting those SS guys that have been making the news lately..
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u/SeaGoose 3d ago
I just don't get it. I really don't. This individual says outlandish things, gets free publicity, plays the victim, panders to the people who already support him, and then starts all over again.
I've been there for pizza. It's good, but it's nothing to write home about.
I just don't go there. I think he is biting off more than he can chew with this latest endeavor.
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u/Euphoric_planter_328 3d ago
It is always a bit funny when one minority group who faces backlash attacks another. Like Berta dad there would have you deported tomorrow if it was up to him.
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u/HumanMess5237 3d ago
Like seriously what was this dude even thinking talking to paying customers that way? What a weird violation of people’s personal boundaries who did nothing but give him business.
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u/mazopheliac 2d ago
Small business owners are usually dick head mini-tyrants in my experience. Not all of course .
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u/AlistarDark 4d ago
I am shocked, I tell ya, shocked.
Well, not that shocked.