If approved by Congress, the proposal would suspend the 18-cent-per-gallon federal tax on gas. Drivers of sedans, with an average tank size of 15 gallons, would save almost $3 on full fuel-ups, an NBC News estimate found. And drivers of 36-gallon-tank trucks would save almost $6.50 every time they filled up their tanks.
So I would pay $72 instead of $75. Thanks Joe, that really helps!
It didn’t take long.
With outrage growing amid reports that RCMP commissioner Brenda Lucki tried to exploit a mass shooting to push Trudeau’s agenda, the establishment is already focused on “tone-trolling” or “tone-policing” to deflect attention elsewhere.
Former RCMP commissioner Bob Paulson and other retired Mounties are defending the integrity of Superintendent Darren Campbell, who has alleged that current Commissioner Brenda Lucki interfered in the investigation of the largest mass shooting in Canadian history to help the Liberal government’s gun-control agenda.
Emergencies Preparedness Minister Bill Blair doesn’t accept Supt. Campbell’s written account of a conference call, on April 28, 2020, between Commissioner Lucki and RCMP commanders overseeing the criminal investigation into the rampage 10 days earlier by a lone gunman in Nova Scotia. Twenty-two people were killed in the shooting.
Canada’s annual inflation rate hit 7.7 per cent for the month of May, according to data released by Statistics Canada on Wednesday, the highest level of growth seen in nearly 40 years. With inflation reaching astronomical levels, some Canadians may be concerned that rising costs will lead to a decline in economic activity and eventually trigger a recession.
While appeared virtually at the World Economic Forum, Biden’s top Covid adviser was asked if the SARS-CoV-2 virus would become endemic in 2022. Fauci said it’s too early to tell and the world appears to be in phase one of a five-phase pandemic, The New York Times reported.
The Liberals and RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki are denying they colluded to release have the RCMP release information about their investigation into the Portapique, Nova Scotia massacre to support the government’s gun control efforts, despite a report from the inquiry into the shooting revealing that Lucki promised Bill Blair and the Prime Minister’s Office that the police would do exactly what.
The bill, which is the product of negotiations between Democrats and Republicans who want to be seen as doing something to prevent mass shootings and other kinds of gun violence, purports to achieve that goal without sacrificing Second Amendment rights. But the bill’s details raise serious questions about its effectiveness and fairness. It pays lip service to civil liberties while canceling the gun rights of adults based on juvenile records, and it subsidizes state laws that suspend those rights without due process.
As the federal government announced long-awaited details of its ban on some single-use plastics Monday — including bags and takeout containers — restaurant and grocery industry executives warn that there just aren’t enough replacements around.
“Trudeau needs to follow Biden’s lead and provide gas tax relief immediately,” said CTF federal director Franco Terrazzano in a statement on Wednesday. “Today, Trudeau could save an average Canadian family about $20 every single time they fuel up their minivan by cutting federal fuel taxes.”
More Quebecers believe they are seen as inferior than at any other time in two decades as debate about Bill 21 and Bill 96 intensifies in Canada.
WEF Conspiracy Theory eh? pic.twitter.com/Rgm5svujkX
— 🇨🇦🍁CanAditude🍁🇨🇦 (@CanAditude) June 21, 2022
Stealing an election by fraud is not the only way to rig an outcome. Elections are rigged when systemic violations of election law occur.
The trick, it would appear, is to ignore your own guidelines and never even look for it.
Black Californians could enjoy child support forgiveness, free college, free health care, fewer police, and a long-term “truth and reconciliation commission” should Golden State lawmakers pass the proposals outlined this week by the state’s Reparations Task Force.
Cali won’t be majority-Mexican if this passes.
IEA chief warns that Russia may be trying to prevent countries filling storage facilities ahead of winter
Europe needs to prepare immediately for Russia to turn off all gas exports to the region this winter, according to the head of the International Energy Agency, who has called on governments to work on reducing demand and keeping nuclear power plants open.
Fatih Birol said reductions in supplies in recent weeks which the Kremlin has attributed to maintenance work could, in fact, be the beginning of wider cuts designed to prevent the filling of storage facilities in preparation for winter, as Russia seeks to gain leverage over the region.
“Europe should be ready in case Russian gas is completely cut off,” he said in an interview with the Financial Times. “The nearer we are coming to winter, the more we understand Russia’s intentions.
One of the most-used tools on the internet is not what it used to be.
Afew weeks ago my house had a septic-tank emergency, which is as awful as it sounds. As unspeakable things began to burble up from my shower drain, I did what any smartphone-dependent person would: I frantically Googled something along the lines of poop coming from shower drain bad what to do. I was met with a slew of cookie-cutter websites, most of which appeared hastily generated and were choked with enough repetitive buzzwords as to be barely readable. Virtually everything I found was unhelpful, so we did the old-fashioned thing and called a professional. The emergency came and went, but I kept thinking about those middling search results—how they typified a zombified internet wasteland.
Iran, Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett warned on June 12, “is dangerously close to getting their hands on a nuclear weapon.” In an interview with The Telegraph, the premier pointed out that “Iran is enriching uranium at an unprecedented rate.” Bennett added: “Iran’s nuclear program won’t stop until it’s stopped.”
Bennett isn’t alone in expressing concern.
Men have been sacrificed to progress
The Tories’ women problem is back. Polling suggests that Labour are on track to win over 17% of the women who voted Tory in 2019, but barely 3% of men. But it seems unlikely that this shift is a consequence of the two sex scandals that precipitated this week’s by-elections — after all, tutting at sexual indiscretion is more a feature among conservatives than today’s “sex-positive” progressives.
Joe Lycett standup joke investigated by police after complaint
The comedian Joe Lycett has said he was investigated by the police after an audience member made a complaint about a joke in one of his shows.
In a post on Instagram, he revealed that he was asked to explain the context of the gag and that the authorities have now closed the case.
To say there’s a disconnect between many journalists and the public they serve is a gross understatement, according to a new in-depth survey by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.
Per Pew, 65 percent of the nearly 12,000 journalists surveyed say the media do a solid job of “covering the most important stories of the day” and reporting news accurately. But a solid majority of the American public at large has the opposite view, with just 35 percent feeling the same way. That’s a 30-point perception gap.
A disturbing look at the FBI’s data on race and animal-cruelty offenses.
Discussing black crime in America isn’t easy. For decades, the FBI has collected all kinds of race and crime data from state police, so we have the information. But due to a ton of negative black disparities showing up in the data, the mainstream media pursues a policy of silence on the issue, turning it as a result into a taboo topic.
