Thoughts on BC Politics and More

The purpose of news ought to be to ensure that Canadians have a shared set of facts around which they can form their opinions and organize their lives. In a previous world, whether they succeeded or failed at that was really no one’s business, at least provided the publisher wasn’t knowingly spreading false information intended to do harm. That is against the law, as outlined in Section 372 of the Criminal Code, which states: “Everyone commits an offence who, with intent to injure or alarm a person, conveys information that they know is false, or causes such information to be conveyed by letter or any means of telecommunication.” Do that, and you can be imprisoned for up to two years. But if a publisher was simply offering poorly researched, unbalanced journalism, and wave after wave of unchallenged opinion pieces with the ability to pervert the flow of information and leave the public with false or distorted impressions of the world, he or she was free to do so. Freedom of the press a...

This will hurt feelings of Justin Trudeau fans, and that's perfectly okay with me. Earlier this week after the cabinet shuffle, Justin Trudeau stood before the fake news mainstream media TV cameras, and made some excuses about the budget. He said that when he tabled the budget 8 months ago, there was no COVID-19 , and there was no pandemic. Surprise, surprise – tell Canadian taxpayers something we don’t know. Hundreds of thousands of hard-working people lost their jobs. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people; suddenly had to stop what they were doing, and figure out their financial situation. Their household budgets were also affected by COVID-19 and the pandemic! They had to make adjustments. Wake up Justin Trudeau -- that is finance or economics 101. But someone who was raised with a silver spoon in his mouth, and someone who has had an endless supply of money from a trust fund would never know that. What he needed to do -- the very second he knew we wer...