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"To bring down the cost of food quickly, Ottawa could eliminate the GST on all food items, scrap the industrial carbon tax, and work with the provinces to remove interprovincial trade barriers to boost competition. Those measures alone would make a meaningful difference."

Imagine a world where hard work is rewarded, truth and justice prevail in courtrooms, the government doesn’t steal your labor by debasing the currency, bureaucrats aren’t captured by corporations, and our taxes go toward critical infrastructure instead of wars overseas.

The most dangerous taxes in our food economy are the ones you don’t see, ever. Hidden from plain view, they quietly rise year after year, making them difficult to politicize or even explain to Canadians. Carbon, booze, gas, you name it. It’s a clever strategy: revenues increase, yet accountability fades. Meanwhile, blame is conveniently shifted to industry—an easy target, and a very convenient one. ctvnews.ca/politics/artic…

I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran. This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war. Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons. I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late. Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.

In less than a decade since the legalization of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), Canada is on track to surpass 100,000 assisted deaths. When this policy was introduced, Canadians were told it would be a last resort, reserved for those nearing the end of life, with strict safeguards in place. Families are now speaking out about cases where assessments appeared rushed, loved ones were not informed of final decisions, and safeguards did not seem to function as intended. Canada must be able to have an honest conversation about MAID, and how we support and protect vulnerable Canadians. nationalpost.com/news/families-…

Canada's new surveillance bill requires every electronic service provider to store your location data, device info, and other metadata for a year. Not just suspects. Everyone. Just in case police want it later.

#ONpoli Everyone needs to understand this: Doug Ford was about to be forced to hand over his personal cell phone records before coming up with a new RETROACTIVE law to override that. This is 100% a cover up. Shady AF.

Fun fact. The Switzerlands largest supermarket, Migros, doesn’t sell alcohol or tobacco in stores, pays no dividends, caps profits by lowering prices if earnings exceeds 5%, is a cooperative with 2M+ members, and donates 1% of revenue to social projects, purely out of the founders moral philosophy

The Ontario government has indicated that it will introduce legislation exempting the Premier, the provincial cabinet and its offices from Freedom of Information requests. If this legislation passes, the Ontario government will be effectively insulated from public scrutiny, and major government decisions affecting more than 14 million citizens will be made behind an impermeable veil of secrecy. The Justice Centre champions freedom of expression. This freedom, according to the Supreme Court of Canada, also protects the right of members of the public, as listeners and readers, to access information pertaining to public institutions. Contact your Ontario MPP today here: ola.org/en/members/cur…. Tell your elected representative that you expect your government to make decisions in the open. Read the full article in the Globe and Mail here: theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

I drive Uber on the night shift. You meet all kinds. Drunks, lovers, tired nurses. At 2 AM, I picked up a guy from a hospital. He got in the back, looking shell-shocked. Didn't say a word. We drove in silence for ten minutes. Then I heard a sniffle. I glanced in the rearview. He was staring out the window, tears streaming down his face. "Rough night?" I asked quietly. "My wife," he choked out. "She just... the cancer. She's gone." My heart stopped. I turned off the meter. "I'm not taking you home yet," I said. He looked up, confused. "What?" "You can't go to an empty house right now. Not yet." I pulled into an all-night diner. "Come on. Coffee and pie. On me." He hesitated, then nodded. We sat in that booth for three hours. He told me about her laugh. How they met. How she hated peas. I just listened. When I finally dropped him off at 6 AM, the sun was coming up. He shook my hand. "Thank you," he said. "For not making me be alone in the dark." I didn't make a dime that night. But it was the most important drive of my life. Anonymous

Out of nowhere, Canada became poorer than Alabama. How is that possible? theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

🚨Emotional: Rabbi Mendel, whose brother-in-law was murdered in the terrorist attack in Australia, visited the Muslim hero Ahmed to thank him. Ahmed said “We are all humans, and God sent me to save lives”. Long live Muslim–Jewish relations. 🙏🏼♥️☪️✡️

President Trump launched a probe into the American “beef cartel” as beef prices continue to soar in the U.S. Beef packing in the United States is controlled by four dominant companies. Meanwhile, in Canada, beef prices have risen even faster than in the U.S., yet beef packing is controlled by just two foreign-owned, privately held companies. And Ottawa has been awfully quiet. Why?

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We recently received information from a reliable industry source about how the federal government is administering beef import permits. If accurate, it raises serious concerns about whether Ottawa is knowingly sustaining an outdated and opaque system that keeps beef prices unnecessarily high in Canada. Full article below...

BREAKING: Health Canada has indefinitely paused its proposed policy update on foods from cloned cattle and swine. After significant pushback from consumers and industry, Ottawa is stepping back to “allow more time for discussion.” For now, any cloned-animal food products must still go through the full novel food assessment — and none are approved for sale in Canada. This pause raises big questions about transparency, public trust, and why the file advanced so quickly in the first place.

Outed Health Canada’s plans on cloned meat, and the story has since gone viral. Respect consumers, and there will be no problem.

Cloned meat enters Canada’s food supply without any labeling or a safety review

A shocking new low in surreptitiously modifying our food supply: Canada quietly clears cloned meat from cattle and swine to be sold as of November 2025. Fewer than 1,200 individuals and organizations were directly notified, and the results were not widely publicized. Yet the change has quietly taken effect. @winnipegsun #cdnpoli winnipegsun.com/news/canada-qu…