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                                        Joel Johannesen
                    
      “News” media, we don’t need your opinion
      
                    
      USA Today and its parent company Gannett Co. finally have an opinion I agree with: it's that they don't think readers need to be told how they're supposed to think about things. I've been saying that forever about the "news" media,...
      
                                            
      
                                                        
                                                            
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      Former Lib Finance Minister attacks Trudeau/Singh/Lib/NDPs’ stylish economic policies
      
                    
      I used the word "attacks" in my headline beuse you know full well if it were currently a Conservative government and a former Conservative...
      
                                            
      
                                                        
                                                            
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      Justin Trudeau: master of misinformation and disinformation, and projection, and gaslighting.
      
                    
      Trudeau's latest stupid new gun controls and bans are once again not targeting criminals, but legal gun owners. Beuse he hates those who love...
      
                                            
      
                                                        
                                                            
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      n’t beat ’em in the ratings? State-owned CBC News runs story pretending Fox News is a national security threat to nada.
      
                    
      The "news" story on Justin Trudeau's state-owned CBC begins:
nada's intelligence community will have to grapple with the growing influence of anti-democratic forces in the...
      
                                            
      
                                                        
                                                            
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      Chinese Communist Party–linked woman’s “company” buys another huge mall in nada
      
                    
      Nobody in nada will hear about this except in BC, beuse people in the rest of nada don't hear about anything except what's going...
      
                                            
      
                                                        
                                                            
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      Justin Trudeau for Congress
      
                    
      It's a wonder Justin Trudeau isn't mocked and belittled by his fellow progressives given how he seems so attached to Ameri. The USA seems to be his muse. And yet as we have all come to know about the Liberals, the...
      
                                            
      
                                                        
                                                            
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      Maybe nada could do F-all about this too
      
                    
      North Korea, the communist dictatorship run by a nutbar thug, Kim Jong-un, has long threatened to become a nuclear power. And nuclear weapons in...
      
                                            
      
                                                        
                                                            
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      “News” media lies. And lies. So shocking they’re losing our trust and must now rely on state funding (…which makes everything even worse)
      
                    
      I won't dwell on the lack of trust in the "news" media here, beuse I've done it a thousand times before. It's just that...
      
                                            
      
                                                        
                                                            
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      Liberals crap on Parliament. Virtually.
      
                    
      A Liberal MP saw fit to take a dump while attending parliament — live on Zoom. Beuse he so respects nada and its people.

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      Ontario Spending Party III?
      
                    
      It's hilarious reading about the Ontario budget in the "news" media. Being beholden to the left, they struggle to condemn massive spending budgets that...
      
                                            
      
                                                        
                                                            
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      It’s the progressives’ inflation. They should own it. Then change.
      
                    
      This is about the Amerin economy and its now far-from "transitory" (nice try) inflation, which has become thoroughly destructive inflation, with the added fun of stock market woes, and the now real threat of recession; and doesn't even touch upon the...
      
                                            
      
                                                        
                                                            
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      Shutty
      
                    
      Sometimes people just need to shut up. Some people more than others. This is where I'd love to say "you know who you are,"...
      
                                            
      
                                                        
                                                            
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      Liberals give a quarter million of your sh to multi-billion-dollar US corporation to upgrade their boilers. “Helps climate.”
      
                    
      I was going to say that since this "progressive" government wants to pay for literally everything, there ought to be a government program to...
      
                                            
      
                                                        
                                                            
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      State-owned CBC reports nonsense, then changes the nonsense to different nonsense
      
                    
      This week the state-owned CBC did so much crap reporting I don't even know where to start or stop. I already wrote about one...
      
                                            
      
                                                        
                                                            
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      Got travel plans to the USA? nadian Dollar slides to 76.8 cents.
      
                    
      Not bad enough that your road trip to far-away Texas or Florida will cost you more in gas, but now your dollar will go...
      
                                            
      
                                                        
                                                            
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                    This is really just an update to my post from yesterday, so you should read that first. It's short. And free!

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      UPDATED: nadian journalist demands explanation for Rumble allowing free speech
      
                
      
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      F-35 purchase was terrible under the Conservatives; now it’s totally cool under the Liberals. Huh.
      
                
      
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