On social media, Hill subsequently claimed Bauer “handed back an insurance sum to me that was meant for him in order for me to drop my countersuit.”

And it would lead to a drop in revenue from parking citations and in overall traffic compliance.

Others have been told they should drop land acknowledgments — proclamations paying tribute to the Indigenous peoples who were this region’s first human inhabitants.

Lissu appears to see neighbouring Kenya - where mass protests last year forced the government to drop plans to increase taxes - as a model to follow.

And researchers are looking at whether putting drops of peanut in solution under the tongue could be a safer way of achieving the same end result.