The carbon tax is an assault on the middle, working, and lower classes

In this context I can only see the Carbon Tax as class warfare, because with it only rich/city dwellers are able to reap benefits and feel good about their role ‘saving’ the environment, meanwhile sneering at/lecturing rural/working class people about how they’re dirty polluters, at the same time forcing them to carry the higher tax burden for these ‘green’ programs.

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Four extremely dumb facts about the ‘assault-style’ weapons ban

Even if you were in favour of less gun rights or wanted more, reasonable people reading the new ‘Assault-Style’ weapons ban should have some alarms going off because it’s seriously badly written, illogical on different levels, and is overall blatantly contradictory.

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5 critical reasons Canada cannot, and should not, move off of oil & natural gas

Solar should be shooting up if oil is truly dead as Elizabeth May says. Buying solar panels being viewed in the same way that getting new hardwood installed is telling of how the general public see solar as an energy source. It is just an expensive frill at the end of the day.

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Long police response times makes firearms necessary for protection in urban areas

As the argument goes, you don’t need a firearm if you live in a city because police response times are much speedier. For years I believed this was a solid argument, but it fails to hold true during a widespread public crisis. This is what is happening during the Coronavirus pandemic, where civil order started to disintegrate in some cities and countries.

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