Philip Cross: R.I.P., Canadian carbon tax

With both the federal NDP and B.C.’s NDP government backing away from support for the carbon tax, it is time to pronounce the tax politically dead in Canada, with precise funeral arrangements to be made after the next federal election. Conservative governments across Canada have long opposed a carbon tax, and federal leader Pierre Poilievre is anxious to fight the next election on the issue. But now even Liberal support is flagging, with Newfoundland’s Liberal government attacking the tax as too costly for households. The federal Liberals themselves acknowledged the tax was a problem when they provided a carve-out for home heating oil, which is heavily used in Atlantic Canada.

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So guess what I have been doing today …

My washer went on the fritz. The seal gave way and I ended up with a small pond in the laundry room.

We paid roughly $1600.00 bucks for the washer dryer combo maybe 10 or 12 years ago.

So I went appliance shopping yesterday. It was eye opening.

An LG combo was on sale so before taxes it was only a couple of hundred bucks more than the old set.

We had repairs done on both the old washer and the dryer to the tune of $400.00 each over the years. So it made sense to go with a new combo especially given the manufacturer changed the stackable mounting system and the dimensions of newer models so I can’t stack my old dryer on a new washer. Pity as it still works.

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Carson Jerema: The Trudeau-Singh coalition lives

Under Jagmeet Singh, New Democrats have never been more obsolete, or more unnecessary. They’ve been outflanked on the left by Justin Trudeau’s cartoonishly progressive government, while Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives have persuaded workers and young people to join their side, leaving Singh to sound ever more ridiculous, as he talks like his ascension to the prime minister’s office is all but imminent.

They lied. It never ended.

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US Border Stopped 1,200 Terror Suspects From Canada, Urges Tighter Immigration

Canada has long defended its generous immigration policy, but has recently reversed course. Many assume this is temporary pandering that will soon loosen, but the odds are slanted towards further tightening. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data shows the country has stopped over 1,200 terror suspects on their “Watchlist” attempting to cross from Canada in just 4 years. An issue that was virtually non-existent prior to 2020, it’s now seeing explosive growth that will result in big changes—either to how Canada conducts immigration or how Canadians are treated at the border.

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Why Are the Nutjobs Trying to Kill Political Opponents All Left-Wingers?

Murderous political violence in the United States today is not an all-of-the-above phenomenon.

In Aug. 2012, a left-wing MSNBC aficionado named Floyd Lee Corkins armed himself with a handgun and extra magazines. He drove to the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the socially conservative Family Research Council, planning to shoot it up. Corkins, who later cited the Southern Poverty Law Center for the proposition that the FRC is an “anti-gay” organization, was also carrying 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches, which he hoped to stuff in his dead victims’ mouths. Corkins, who served as a volunteer at a local LGBT community center, was stopped by an unarmed security guard.

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3 men injured after man with knife walks into Montreal-area mosque

A 24-year-old man has been arrested following an altercation at a Montreal-area mosque that left three people injured on Friday afternoon.

Police in Châteauguay, Que., say the man entered the Centre Culturel Musulman de Châteauguay, located on St-Jean Baptiste Boulevard, holding a knife when an altercation broke out with several individuals at around 1:40 p.m.

The police are keeping this tightly sealed.

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Progressives Thrive on Deceit

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” – George Orwell, 1984

To remake America, progressives have centered on a strategy of rewriting history, distorting current events, changing language, and using false allegations of disinformation, malinformation (facts progressives believe are presented out of context), and racism to censor and suppress centrists and conservatives.

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Facing Current Realities, Governments in Canada Abandon Experimental Policies

B.C.’s NDP Premier David Eby last week became the latest politician to distance himself from the carbon tax, while his federal counterpart Jagmeet Singh said he opposes the Liberals’ version of the scheme.

Before that, B.C. did a U-turn on its hard drugs decriminalization experiment, asking the feds to remove the Criminal Code exemption amid rising drug use. As well, in a province that once pioneered various harm reduction and safe injection site policies, amid backlash the government sought to bring in legislation to limit drug use in parks where children play, though it was challenged in the courts.

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Diddy ‘as bad as Epstein,’ says officer who saw his sex rooms, hidden cameras during Miami mansion raid

Sordid new details have emerged of the so-called sex rooms that Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly kept in his Miami mansion — filled with sex toys, bondage gear, hidden cameras and lingerie, according to a federal source, who said the disgraced rapper is “as bad as Epstein.”

One of the Department of Homeland Security agents who helped raid Diddy’s Florida abode claimed that the music mogul had rooms that were clearly “dedicated to sex” with cameras all around.

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Trudeau government to release report on how Muslim terrorists were allowed into Canada by the Trudeau gov’t

OTTAWA—A government review into how a father and son arrested in Toronto for allegedly planning a terror attack were allowed into Canada will be completed and made public in the next two weeks, federal immigration minister Marc Miller said Thursday.

Miller’s comments came as he appeared before the public safety committee, which is probing the Canadian government’s border screening processes in the backdrop of two recent alleged terror plots that were foiled in Canada but have raised concerns from opposition MPs about Canada’s security vetting.

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Hezbollah device explosions: The unanswered questions

After thousands of pagers and radio devices exploded in two separate incidents in Lebanon – injuring thousands of people and killing at least 37 – details are still being pieced together as to how such an operation was carried out.

Lebanon and Hezbollah, whose members and communication systems were targeted, have blamed Israel – though Israel is yet to comment.

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