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“Why?” viewers ask A new 30-second Uber ad promoting the app for people taking trains has UK viewers scratching their heads in confusion this week. The spot features an enthusiastic young man approaching a train conductor to confirm that he
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by Hans Wienhold In case you haven’t noticed, the Junk News fear porn machine has been running in overdrive this summer in a effort to jackhammer the ClimateScam into the brains of as many somnambulists as possible. This has all
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by Hans Wienholdi Uncle Jay, whom I became friends with during the last decade of my taxi career, always referred to his taxi as a toilet because that was how the public treated them. He told me a funny story about
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by Hans Wienhold The Black Stallion was a bar on James St. N. We all hated being sent there for fares, partly because there was nowhere to park adjacent to the bar. Drivers would have to maneuver into a “no stopping”
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by Hans Wienhold One slow afternoon, I was given a delivery order. The instructions were to pick up a prepaid order from The Love Shop on Parkdale Ave. N. The bag they handed me contained some lubricant and a red
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No one saw it coming. It came out of nowhere. Much like the attacks on 9/11. It was one of those surreal moments in your life. Everyone knows where they were on 9/11. But for the beef industry a more memorable day was May 20, 2003. That was the day the Canada/US border slammed shut with a shockwave that hit not only the aforementioned trading partners but 40 additional countries that trades with Canada.
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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation presented its 25th annual Teddy Waste Awards to the governor general for racking up sky-high bills for airplane food; the Quebec government’s app that made people line up for hours; and, a Charlottetown councillor who built her driveway around a power pole and charged taxpayers for moving it.
“Governor General Mary Simon’s bill for airplane food on one trip was almost double the prime minister’s grocery bill for the whole year and, for that amazing accomplishment, she’s winning a Teddy Award,” said Franco Terrazzano, Federal Director of the CTF.
Read MoreThe United Kingdom and other Commonwealth nations celebrated the Coronation of King Charles on May 6th, 2023. Notably not celebrating was anyone who needed to drive in London, as the Google Maps traffic snapshot for that day indicated most of
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