Busy as Hell
by Hans Wienhold It was a Friday night, near the end of my career. I was sitting in my cab in the Augusta Nightclub zone, watching all the bar patrons jumping into the unmarked Uber cabs in front of me,
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Compelling, in-depth coverage of the people and stories behind the news and their opinions.
The Connaught building is the headquarters of the Canada Revenue Agency - equivalent to the Internal Revenue Service in the US. Photo by Simon P, via Wikipedia.
Fake security bulletin slandered convoy
The day before most of the truckers had even arrived, the feds falsely accused them of invading office buildings by Donna Laframboise Blacklock’s Reporter is a gem amongst Canadian news outlets. Its focus is on holding our federal government to account. Yesterday
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Dan likes Danielle, and the hope she offers
by Dan McTeague On Monday, May 29th, Alberta voters re-elected its UCP government with a slim majority government but with an even bigger popular vote mandate. In doing so, Albertans once again rejected Rachel Notley’s NDP. This might seem like no
Read MoreMassachusetts to Enforce Expanded Right to Repair Law Following Denial of Restraining Order by Court
Duane Morris LLP On June 1, 2023, Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell may commence enforcing Massachusetts’ expanded “right to repair” law following the denial of a temporary restraining order from the bench by U.S. District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock. Judge
Read MoreSpecial delivery from The Love Shop
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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Health Canada distributed funds to encourage groups to promote brand-new vaccines. Source: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/immunization-vaccine-priorities/immunization-partnership-fund.html
The Vaccine Brainwashing Bandwagon
Reputable organizations took government money in exchange for telling the public the scarcely tested vaccines were safe by Donna Laframboise Why was it so easy for the mainstream media to convince a portion of the Canadian public that the trucker Freedom
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Cattlemen will remember their BSE moment forever
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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A bullshit detector and a sense of humour make life bearable
Probably no one, not even his biggest fans, would put him in the same class of writers as Ernest Hemingway. However, as a Bullshit Detective, Hans Wienhold is in a class of his own. (In fact, in his Taxi News bio he proudly describes himself as a “Welfare Recipient at Senior’s Welfare; Self-Employed; and also, a Climate Scientist at BS Detective Services.”)
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Journalists & Government in lockstep
“Then I managed to contact a reporter who worked for the New York Times, who told me what was happening to me was exactly what was happening to him. His stories were being shut down, he was being blocked. As he saw it, we had two options. One of them was quit and be a whistleblower. Or just stay, and fight it out, and keep trying to push those stories through.
…I was just reeling from all this because I thought, you know, we have betrayed our audience on a massive scale. Massive.”