Friday, March 29, 2024

Laugh a Little

Yes, the news is important and serious. But geez, can we laugh a little now and then? It’s good for your mental health, which is very serious.

Feature/ProfilePropaganda Watch

Propaganda Watch: what exactly does Doug Ford mean by removing “almost all restrictions”?

Rita Smith is a professional copywriter who written for municipal, provincial and federal levels of government in Canada for 35 years.

Propaganda Watch© is a an occasional feature designed to help trusting Canadian voters question, decode and interpret political language designed to persuade and sometimes, confuse.

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Laugh a LittleOpinion/Column

What’s happening at the US border on January 22nd? It may be dramatic

Searching fruitlessly for any mention of the words “COVID” or “vaccine” in CBW #56, I was amazed and amused to come across the above introduction to an opinion by Judge Vaden. He is writing on a lawsuit brought against Porche Motorsport North American Inc. by the United States government, Slip Op. 21–176, Page 33 of the bulletin.

Turns out, Team Porche has been trying to pull a fast one on US Customs by crossing and re-crossing the border between Canada and the US with a giant trailer full of products and parts required by teams on the racing circuit. While it appears Porche was replenishing the trailer often, it was not accurately claiming the value of product on the trailer to US border agents.

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Canadians too busy watching re-runs of American television shows like "Judge Wapner" have not noticed that their personal freedoms have been eroded alarmingly quickly since 2019. Photo: WSJ
Laugh a LittleOpinion/ColumnTaxi industry news

Cranky cabbie Hans Wienhold on people “too busy” to notice Canada is in deep trouble

About thirty years ago, I picked up this young broad. It was a good trip; we had some time to talk, but she did most of the talking.

She started telling me all about the problems she was having with her boyfriend. She was frustrated that he kept bugging her that she didn’t pay enough attention to him.

Then she exclaimed, “He just doesn’t understand. I am just too busy.”

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