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A group of friends with mostly centrist or conservative viewpoints who share resources and ideas about the governance of Alberta and Canada and about world events and trends.
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April 04, 2025

Don't Canadians see that when Carney suspended the carbon tax, he simply substituted tariffs. Seems obvious to me. Both are oppressive, job eliminating taxes.

There's a point at which total taxation gets to where it no longer provides value to the economy and stifles productivity, and I think Canada's past that, but the governments have thrown away so much money and accumulated so much debt that getting back to lower taxes is not going to be easy.

And, as for being revenue neutral the carbon tax never was due to the hidden costs and the additional personnel involved in collecting and enforcing it. Forgotten also, is the GST charged on the total price including the carbon tax.

Also, carbon taxes do not affect people evenly because some low wage earners, especially rural people where wages are lower and travel to work is necessarily farther, are in a situation that necessarily requires more use of fuels.

Some or even many of those people are essential to a smooth running economy and they were penalized heavily and the rebate came nowhere near compensating.

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Ottawa Funded the China Ferry Deal—Then Pretended to Oppose It

While Beijing-backed hackers infiltrated Canadian telecoms, federal and B.C. leaders quietly financed a billion-dollar shipbuilding deal with a Chinese state firm—then tried to pass the buck.
https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/ottawa-funded-the-china-ferry-dealthen

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June 25, 2025

Some of these things I still miss

I grew up without safe spaces.
I grew up without trigger warnings.
I drank water from the hose.
I ate peanuts in class.
None of us wore a helmet.
Kids got hurt. We fell down. And we signed a lot of casts.

We couldn’t pause TV. We’d call out “It’s on!” as soon as the commercials started to end (for those who had left the room). And we watched our favourite shows as a family.

There was no next day delivery.
There was no bundle this with that.
There was no internet. Skip the Dishes didn’t exist.
Fast food was not the norm. It was easier to eat healthy. There were home phones. There was VH.........

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