Most of the current topics in today’s news revolve around these four elements. Just about everyone is talking about them, yet many do not understand or care to try. It’s easier to be led by the news headlines, commentators, social media posts and memes, hastily- and half-written articles on any media platform.
It’s not that we don’t have access to information. At times there is just too much of it and it is difficult to discern and digest. It’s a responsibility and you are the one who has to exercise it.
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Are you a coronavirus denier or a prepper? Neither one would be logical. Prudence and practicality are better approaches. The hyperbolic attention by the media is driving a frenzy of overreaction and misinformation. There are very real-world effects beyond the medical threat. All of them need to be addressed in proper context, realizing that this is an ongoing situation that none can clearly define in every way. Don’t call for calm, practice it.
Some people are actually buying Sanders’s dangerous communist ideas. Do not believe the democratic socialist hype. Just because you change the term to fit a new narrative doesn’t mean the policies are not the same.
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Communism comes in many forms. Think about it, we have the Chinese Communist Party, the Cuban communist regime and the Venezuelan communist government. Europe is not immune because in Greece the Marxist party has reappeared after a long hiatus and for a short time held the majority position in their parliament.
Communism in any form destroys cultures and every form of economic empowerment. It does not empower the poor, it makes all but those who are in power poor. Communism is not asking you to share your salt with your dining partner, it’s telling you how much salt you can have if any at all.
Under any name or narrative, communism is the destruction of an economic system and the construction of a dictatorship.
These politicians are frauds and, in many ways, dangerous frauds. Sanders is a communist sympathizer and beyond a wannabe.
Biden is a profiteer and he and his family have lived off of you, the American people, profiting greatly at your expense for decades.
The FBI just raided Americore, a business tied to Biden’s brother, James Biden, and they don’t do this unless there are serious allegations and a significant investigation.
The purpose of the raid is unclear and there is no clear evidence thus far it was directly related to the actions of Joe Biden’s younger brother. Americore has faced allegations of mismanagement, and two small medical firms that did business with Americore have claimed in civil court proceedings that he may have fraudulently transferred funds from Americore “outside of the course of ordinary business.” A former Americore executive also stated that James Biden had more than a half million dollars transferred to him from the firm as a personal loan. The loan has not been repaid.
On its surface or if further investigation develops anything illegal, this helps Biden’s detractors who accuse him and his family of profiting off of his position as a senator, then as vice president.
I would choose carefully how you assess issues and politics run on parallel tracks to the November general election. Issues will become political footballs no matter their relevance. The Democrats are offering you a slow boat to socialism under Joe Biden who stated that he is the most progressive in the race, or a fast plane to communism if in some perverse parallel universe Sanders won the presidency.
Webb is host of “The David Webb Show” on SiriusXM Patriot 125, host of “Reality Check with David Webb” on Fox Nation, a Fox News contributor and a frequent television commentator. His column appears twice a month in The Hill.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the NDP is caving to political pressure from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre when it comes to their stance on the consumer carbon price.
Trudeau says he believes Jagmeet Singh and the NDP care about the environment, but it’s “increasingly obvious” that they have “no idea” what to do about climate change.
On Thursday, Singh said the NDP is working on a plan that wouldn’t put the burden of fighting climate change on the backs of workers, but wouldn’t say if that plan would include a consumer carbon price.
Singh’s noncommittal position comes as the NDP tries to frame itself as a credible alternative to the Conservatives in the next federal election.
Poilievre responded to that by releasing a video, pointing out that the NDP has voted time and again in favour of the Liberals’ carbon price.
British Columbia Premier David Eby also changed his tune on Thursday, promising that a re-elected NDP government would scrap the long-standing carbon tax and shift the burden to “big polluters,” if the federal government dropped its requirements.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 13, 2024.
Simon Jolin-Barrette, minister responsible for consumer protection, has tabled a bill to force merchants to calculate tips based on the price before tax.
That means on a restaurant bill of $100, suggested tips would be calculated based on $100, not on $114.98 after provincial and federal sales taxes are added.
The bill would also increase the rebate offered to consumers when the price of an item at the cash register is higher than the shelf price, to $15 from $10.
And it would force grocery stores offering a discounted price for several items to clearly list the unit price as well.
Businesses would also have to indicate whether taxes will be added to the price of food products.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 12, 2024.
Quebec legislature member Youri Chassin has announced he’s leaving the Coalition Avenir Québec government to sit as an Independent.
He announced the decision shortly after writing an open letter criticizing Premier François Legault’s government for abandoning its principles of smaller government.
In the letter published in Le Journal de Montréal and Le Journal de Québec, Chassin accused the party of falling back on what he called the old formula of throwing money at problems instead of looking to do things differently.
Chassin says public services are more fragile than ever, despite rising spending that pushed the province to a record $11-billion deficit projected in the last budget.
He is the second CAQ member to leave the party in a little more than one week, after economy and energy minister Pierre Fitzgibbon announced Sept. 4 he would leave because he lost motivation to do his job.
Chassin says he has no intention of joining another party and will instead sit as an Independent until the end of his term.
He has represented the Saint-Jérôme riding since the CAQ rose to power in 2018, but has not served in cabinet.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 12, 2024.
